Qualla: Battle of Sedjenane https://qualla.com/battle-of-sedjenane en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Sedjenane https://qualla.com/battle-of-sedjenane Battle of Sedjenane: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-sedjenane/ War correspondent Alan Moorehead described the hills around Sedjenane as 'the most desolate place in Tunisia.' The small town sat on a railway line connecting Mateur to the port of Bizerte, and in the winter of 1942-43, it became the kind of place where soldiers stared across a valley at hills they could not take and waited for something to break the deadlock. Wrecked Universal Carriers from a failed British advance in November 1942 sat in no man's land for months, a grim landmark that every Allied soldier in the sector came to know.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/w/d/battle-of-sedjenane-wp/snwd-battle-of-sedjenane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Sedjenane: Green Hill, Baldy, Sugarloaf https://qualla.com/battle-of-sedjenane/ The trouble began in November 1942, immediately after the Operation Torch landings. The Allied 'run for Tunis' -- the attempt to capture the Tunisian capital before the Axis could reinforce it -- ground to a halt in the hills east of Sedjenane. German paratroopers, operating as g...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/w/d/battle-of-sedjenane-wp/snwd-battle-of-sedjenane-green-hill-baldy-sugarloaf.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Sedjenane: Operation Ochsenkopf https://qualla.com/battle-of-sedjenane/ On 26 February 1943, the Germans broke the deadlock -- but on their terms. Operation Ochsenkopf (Ox Head) was the northern complement to the Kasserine Pass offensive that had shaken Allied confidence earlier that month. Colonel Rudolf Witzig's Parachute Engineer Battalion led the...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/w/d/battle-of-sedjenane-wp/snwd-battle-of-sedjenane-operation-ochsenkopf.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Sedjenane: Where the Red Devils Got Their Name https://qualla.com/battle-of-sedjenane/ Sedjenane fell to the Germans and Italians on 4 March 1943, defended to the last by elements of the 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, Churchill tanks of the North Irish Horse, and remnants of No. 1 Commando. But the Allies retook the town on 1 April. The series of counterattac...

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