US Armored Units in the North African and Italian Campaigns by Steven J. Zaloga

By Steven J. Zaloga

The Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) observed the 1st operational deployment folks armoured divisions in international battle II, and the event proved chastening for the first Armored department whilst it suffered defeat by the hands of Rommel’s Afrika Korps on the conflict of Kasserine move. This name covers the association of those early US armored divisions, in addition to the autonomous tank and tank destroyer battalions that followed them. It info the evolution if US armoured battle strategies and doctrine, discovered from the tricky studies of North Africa, and illustrates how they have been used in different places within the MTO, rather within the Italian Peninsula.

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Pulls an M3 half-track out of a wadi near Sidi-bou-Zid during the fighting there on February 14, 1943, one of the few survivors of the day's fighting. (NARA) 60 unit tactics were those of a wary hunter rather than a bold cavalryman. The Afrika Korps had learned that in the desert a high-speed advance makes a tank easily visible to an opponent at long range, providing plenty of time to prepare anti-tank defenses. A slow methodical advance, supporting by emplaced tanks or anti-tank guns in support, had become the preferred offensive tactic.

And HQ Company HQ Section Administration Mess and Supply Section Reconnaissance Platoon MG Platoon HQ Section Maintenance Mortar Platoon Assault Gun Platoon 30 Rifle Company A Rifle Company B Rifle Company C HQ Section HQ Section HQ Section Maintenance Maintenance Maintenance Administration Mess and Supply Section Administration Mess and Supply Section Administration Mess and Supply Section 15t Rifle Platoon 15t Rifle Platoon 1st Rifle Platoon 2nd Rifle Platoon 2nd Rifle Platoon 2nd Rifle Platoon 3rd Rifle Platoon 3rd Rifle Platoon 3rd Rifle Platoon Armored reconnaissance battalion TO&E 17-35, March I, 1942 HQ & HQ co.

In general, the armored group and tank destroyer group concepts proved unwieldy and the concept was unceremoniously abandoned by the end of the war. The most critical debate in the command and control of armored divisions in combat was the inter-relationship of the tank, infantry and artillery elements. This debate has been discussed in detail previously, and it is worth noting that the combined-arms approach of using combat commands was accepted doctrine by the time that US armored divisions were committed to action in North Africa in 1942.

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