In return, Kesselring had, however, held up the Allies in Tunisia for six months, forcing a postponement of the Allied invasion of Northern France from the middle of 1943 to the middle of 1944.
即便如此，凱塞林還是於突尼斯成功拖住了盟軍6個月的時間，使其不得不將入侵法國北部的時間自1943年中推迟到1944年中。