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Battle of El Guettar

Battle of El Guettar was a battle fought on 23 March 1943 at El Guettar, in what is now Tunisia. It was part of Q111976804. The recorded result: Indecisive. Recorded strength: 31 tanks against 57 tanks.

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Battle of El Guettar
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Fought23 March 1943
WhereEl Guettar, Tunisia34.337N, 8.948E
OutcomeIndecisive
BelligerentsUnited StatesagainstKingdom of Italy; Nazi Germany
Part ofQ111976804

Where it sits in Q111976804

Battle of Kasserine Passe, 1943Battle of Sidi Bou Zid, 1943Battle of Sedjenane, 1943Battle of Ksar Ghilane, 1943Battle of the Mareth Line, 1943Battle of El Guettar, 1943Battle of Wadi Akarit, 1943Battle of Takrouna, 1943Battle of Longstop Hill, 1943Battle of Hill 609, 194319431943Battle of El Guettar, 1943
10 placed engagements of Q111976804 in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date23 March 1943
PlaceEl Guettar, Tunisia
34.337N, 8.948E
KindBattle, interwar and Second World War
Strength31 tanks57 tanks
Casualties and losses22 tanks lost; 4 halftracks lost; 4,000–5,000 killed or wounded37 tanks lost; 4,000–6,000 killed or wounded in 3 weeks
Commanders
Battle of El GuettarBattle of El GuettarBattle of Longstop HillBattle of Sidi Bou ZidBattle of Kasserine PasseBattle of Wadi AkaritFirst Battle of El DjorfBattle of Longstop HillBattle of Sidi Bou ZidBattle of Kasserine PasseBattle of Wadi AkaritFirst Battle of El DjorfSfaxGafsaTozeurMedenineSdid BouzidKebili100 km34.337N, 8.948E
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Combat data (CDB90)

Attacker: GER 10TH PZ DIV(+)Defender: US 1ST INF DIV(+)
Strength10,30022,019
Casualties450 (4.4%)203 (0.9%)
Mission accomplishment, 1 to 1057
Outcomedefender won
Duration1.5 days
Front width25 km25 km
Attacker advanced0 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 392), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.

Battle of El Guettar is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 119 in present-day Tunisia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q2363492, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of El Guettar, revision 1376130873, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.