Operation Ochsenkopf

Unternehmen Ochsenkopf (Operation Ox Head) wanda kuma aka sani da Battle of Sidi Nsir da Battle of Hunts Gap ya kasance [ [Axis Powers | Axis]] m aiki a Tunisia daga 26 Fabrairu zuwa 4 Maris 1943, a lokacin [[Tunisia] Gangamin]] na Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu. An yi niyyar kai harin ne don samun iko da Medjez el Bab, Béja, El Aroussa, Djebel Abiod da kuma Unternehmen Ausladung. wani matsayi da aka sani da Hunt's Gap, tsakanin Birtaniya Sojan Farko da Axis [[Panzer] Army Africa|Rukunin Sojojin Afirka]] (Heeresgruppe Afrika/Gruppo d'Armate Africa). Hare-haren sun yi galaba a kai, amma babu wani buri da aka cimma kafin a dakatar da aikin saboda karuwar hasarar sojoji da tankokin yaki, musamman ma manyan Tigers. Unternehmen Ochsenkopf shine babban hari na ƙarshe na Axis daga 5th Panzer Army kafin mika wuya na Afrika Korps a watan Mayu 1943.

Takaittacen Bayani

Bayan Battle of Kasserine Pass (19–24 February), Axis ta kirkiro Rukunin Sojojin Afirka (Heeresgruppe Afrika}/Gruppo d' Armate Africa) a matsayin hedkwatar kwamanda ga Na biyar na Panzer Army da Italiya Sojan Farko a Tunisiya. Adolf Hitler da Janar Janar na Jamus Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) sun yi imanin cewa Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen von Arnim ya kamata. dauki umarni amma Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring Jamusanci [OB Süd (OB Süd, Babban Kwamandan Kudu) ya yi jayayya da Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, wanda aka nada ya zama kwamandan sabuwar Rukunin Sojojin Afirka ranar 23 ga Fabrairu. Supremo, Babban Hafsan Sojojin Italiya, ya umarci Rommel da ya kawo karshen harin a Kasserine, bisa la'akari da ƙarfafawar Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin na Tebessa, don gudanar da wani mummunan hari a kan Sojoji na takwas Bernard Montgomery) yayin da yake tunkarar kariyar Layin Mareth daga gabas.

Kauyukan Gafsa, Metlaoui da Tozeur za su kasance a hannun sojojin tafi-da-gidanka kuma galibin kungiyar da ta kai harin ita ce komawa rundunar sojan Italiya ta daya. Rukunin Panzer Division na 10 ya yi ritaya daga Thala tun a farkon 23 ga Fabrairu kuma 21st Panzer Division ya kawo karshen harin da ta kai kan Sbiba a ranar 24 ga Fabrairu. Rukunin ya kamata su sake fasalin kuma su koma cikin Sojan Italiya na 1st, a shirye don kai hari a farkon Maris, matakan da za a rufe ta hanyar ƙananan ayyuka a gaban 5th Panzer Army. A ranar 24 ga Fabrairu, Arnim ya tashi zuwa Roma ba tare da tuntuɓar Rommel ba kuma ya ba da shawarar kai hari ga Béja, yana da tabbacin cewa Birtaniyya Sojan Farko (Janar [[Kenneth Anderson (Jami'in Sojojin Burtaniya)] ]]), ya aika da sojoji kudu daga gaban arewa don ceto Sbiba da Thala. Arnim ya sami amincewar Kesselring don kai hari a gaba gaba a kan sashin V Corps (Charles Allfrey) a ranar 26 Fabrairu.