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''Of the 1,200 men in the battalion on Feb. 18, 1943, only 125 remained the next day. The rest were killed, wounded, captured or scattered, as a battle-hardened war machine gave the untested U.S. Army a bloody baptism.''<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19930207&id=EDhSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZjYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1203,3678372&hl=en Kasserine Pass: A baptism of fire for U.S. Army in World War II, Victoria Advocate, February 7, 1993]</ref>  

''Of the 1,200 men in the battalion on Feb. 18, 1943, only 125 remained the next day. The rest were killed, wounded, captured or scattered, as a battle-hardened war machine gave the untested U.S. Army a bloody baptism.''<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19930207&id=EDhSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZjYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1203,3678372&hl=en Kasserine Pass: A baptism of fire for U.S. Army in World War II, Victoria Advocate, February 7, 1993]</ref>  

The remaining units of the ''Centauro'' fought in Tunisia as part of the Italian 1st Army until the end of the campaign, surrendering on 13 May 1943, five days after the collapse of the 5th Panzer Armee. The German collapse started on 5 May, although Italian resistance stiffened around the defensive line north of Takrouna, with the Italians overrunning a French division in the last hours of the fighting. <ref>"On May 12th this Italian force was still resisting from positions just north of Enfidaville. A French division attacking their right was repulsed and then counterattacked. The Air Force, being called upon for aid, made a strong bombing attack at 1530, supported by all the artillery whose fire could be brought to bear.“ "Finale in Tunisia", Colonel Conrad H. Lanza, Page. 488, The Field Artillery, July 1943</ref>In all, 80,000 Italians under Marshal Giovanni Messe laid down their arms on 13 May 1943, only when authorized to do so by Mussolini who promoted Messe to marshal the night before.

The remaining units of the ''Centauro'' fought in Tunisia as part of the Italian 1st Army until the end of the campaign, surrendering on May 13 1943, five days after the collapse of the 5th Panzer Armee. The German collapse started on May 5, although Italian resistance stiffened around the defensive line north of Takrouna, with the Italians overrunning a French division in the last hours of the fighting. <ref>"On May 12th this Italian force was still resisting from positions just north of Enfidaville. A French division attacking their right was repulsed and then counterattacked. The Air Force, being called upon for aid, made a strong bombing attack at 1530, supported by all the artillery whose fire could be brought to bear.“ "Finale in Tunisia", Colonel Conrad H. Lanza, Page. 488, The Field Artillery, July 1943</ref>In all, 80,000 Italians under Marshal Giovanni Messe laid down their arms on 13 May 1943, only when authorized to do so by Mussolini who promoted Messe to marshal the night before.

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