When did the Americans extract a British commitment to limit Allied operations in the mediterranean ?
Although the Italian and German forces , no longer led by an ailing Rommel but by Italian general Giovanni Messe , were now pincered between the Allied armies during the Tunisia Campaign , they did manage to stall the Allies with a series of defensive operations , most notably with the Battle of the Kasserine Pass , but they were out-flanked , out-manned and out-gunned .