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Lloyd Ralston Fredendall was born on December 28, 1883, at Fort D. A. Russell near Cheyenne, Wyoming. His father, Ira Livingston Fredendall (December 7, 1846 – February 6, 1935), was on active duty in the United States Army when Fredendall was born. Ira became sheriff of Laramie County before receiving a commission in the Quartermaster Corps ...
Due to the events at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, Maj. Gen. Lloyd R. Fredendall would go down in history as one of the most unsuccessful American generals of World War II. Up against the German Army in North Africa, he would all but collapse. Out of humiliating defeat one of America’s most successful generals, George S. Patton, came to the fore.
“According to Harmon, Fredendall is a physical and moral coward.” — Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., March 2, 1943 diary entry. What went wrong? The short answer is: everything. Historian Steven L. Ossad’s study of Fredendall’s actions in Tunisia included a five-point condemnation: Fredendall “failed to understand his mission”
17. Sept. 2021 · Lloyd Fredendall’s military beginnings. Lloyd Fredendall was born on Fort D.A. Russell near Cheyenne, Wyoming on December 28, 1883. His father served in the Quartermaster Corps during the Spanish-American War and remained active in the military until his retirement in 1914. He reenlisted during World War I to supervise the construction of ...
Lloyd Ralston Fredendall (* 28. Dezember 1883 in Cheyenne; † 4. Oktober 1963 in San Diego) war ein US-Generalleutnant, der durch sein Versagen als Befehlshaber des II. Korps bekannt wurde. Fredendall war der erste von sieben amerikanis ...
The US II Corps concentrated its strength at Tebessa, where Allied commanders Lloyd Fredendall and Kenneth Anderson (UK) believed they could best protect the Kasserine Pass. Rommel, however, sensed the opportunity. With the momentum against the Allied forces, he realized an attack directly on their main strength through the Kasserine Pass might ...
Fredendall had deployed his corps in penny packets across the complex terrain, in some cases too far from one another to provide mutual fire support. As the panzers swept through Faïd Pass at Sidi Bou Zid, the 2,000 officers and men of the 34th Infantry Division’s 168th Infantry Regiment soon found themselves surrounded on high ground. Attempts to relieve the regiment failed; ultimately ...
