…of Kasserine Pass
"Staff Sgt. Paul Grube's puny M3 Lee tank, with its 37-millimeter gun, was no match for German Gen. Erwin Rommel's Panzer IVs and Tiger tanks with their 88-millimeter main guns.
Despite the disadvantage at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, which took place in North Africa in February 1943, the now 85-year-old held his own against overwhelming odds.
It was the first time American ground forces fought Hitler's fabled tank commander during World War II. The green American troops were badly beaten by the German general who would eventually receive "The Desert Fox" moniker from friend and foe alike.
Grube was a gunner in Company C, 4th Tank Battalion, 1st Armored Division during this crucial encounter in the mountains of Tunisia. He was 22 years old at the time.
"We got a call to make a night run in our tanks to Kasserine Pass. We were down south eight hours away by tank," the old soldier recalled. "We got there the next morning and sat in the valley in our tanks waiting for the Germans to advance.
""Over on our right was a French Foreign Legion artillery unit with four guns. We sent the Third Platoon, with five tanks, over to our left. We held the center with the remaining nine tanks," he said…"
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