Thank you, Gary, for a very informative article. My father was wounded on June 3, 1943, so he may have been at Kasserine Pass, but not injured there. I must have misremembered what he told me. Attached is the bottom portion of his military
transcript that I posted previously. I've attached the bottom portion of his military transcript that I posted previou See section 27. Anyone know what "EAMET" means?
Dennis,
No worries, my friend! These things sometimes change over time. Clearly, this is an example of why it is so important to document in "writing" whatever information that he may have told you or that your remember hearing. Minds visualize information especially over time and these mental visuals often are different then what truly happened. Example... I remember as a very young boy overhearing a story about my grandfather having an accident in a truck on a bridge when he served in Europe. Without information I visualized him jumping from a truck as it plunged off a bridge into a river. In recent years this remembrance came to light with my brother saying he had never heard this before. From my grandfather's communication back during his service we learned that there was indeed a truck accident where he fell from the back of the vehicle onto a towing hitch, but no mention that it happened on a bridge. Since my grandfather passed away in 1978 and my Dad passed away a year and a half ago we don't know whether this accident happened on a bridge or if this was just something apocryphal that morphed overtime in the desire of a small boy years ago to know more of what happened? Clearly, some of the information is correct, but are some details a visualization of hearsay in a young boy's mind? Folks, document, document, document! Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The 292nd Counselor has spoken! 
Gary
Proud Grandson of Randall Gates
Mechanic, A and H&S Companies, 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 1149th Engineer Combat Group