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Most importantly for U. S. Army forces, the II Corps commander — Lloyd Fredendall — was relieved by General Eisenhower and sent to a training command assignment for the remainder of the war.

However, the widespread custom amongst theater commanders of transferring senior commanders who had failed in battlefield assignments to stateside training commands did not in any way improve the reputation or morale of the latter.

Instead of receiving a competent leader, those commands would now be saddled with the difficult job of convincing a disgraced commander to take the lead in advocating radical improvements in existing Army training programs — programs which, like Fredendall himself, had contributed to the embarrassing U. S. Army reverses in North Africa.