IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE 8TH. ARMY’S VICTORIOUS WEST DESERT OFFENSIVE: A company of British gunners 1 amed with 6-pounder anti-tank guns were attacked by 50 tanks as they moved across flat country in the moonlight. In the 36-hour battle that followed, they knocked out 37 Axis tanks. The rest retired to “lick their wounds.” These men fought until the last round had been fired by their last gun, all ranks taking their place at the guns. Officers and N.C.O’s, of the company whose brilliant action is typical of the spthe spirit that made the 8th. Army’s great desert victory possible.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3297, 6 August 1943, Page 3
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102IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE 8TH. ARMY’S VICTORIOUS WEST DESERT OFFENSIVE: A company of British gunners1 amed with 6-pounder anti-tank guns were attacked by 50 tanks as they moved across flat country in the moonlight. In the 36-hour battle that followed, they knocked out 37 Axis tanks. The rest retired to “lick their wounds.” These men fought until the last round had been fired by their last gun, all ranks taking their place at the guns. Officers and N.C.O’s, of the company whose brilliant action is typical of the spthe spirit that made the 8th. Army’s great desert victory possible. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3297, 6 August 1943, Page 3
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