Panzer division
Two offensive-defensive operations were planned, with to be conducted by the 10th and 21st Panzer divisions against US positions at Sidi Bou Zid, west of Faïd, after which the 21st Panzer Division would join a battlegroup of the 1st Italian Army to attack Gafsa in and the 10th Panzer Division moved north for an attack west of Kairouan. was to begin from 12–14 February.