FIGHTING TANKS
NEW ZEALANDER’S EXPERIENCE IN SPAIN
USEFUL MOBILE GUNS. HAND GRENADES ALSO FOUND EFFICACIOUS. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 12. Mr Murn MacDonald, of Dunedin, one of the members of the International Brigade who has returned from Spain, said one of the outstanding military lessons of the war was the efficacy of anti-tank guns mounted on rubber wheels. They could be easily pushed into position and they were also capable of rapid fire with one-pound shells. A direct hit would halt any tank. The sudden appearance of tanks was terrifying, but determined infantry could halt them. Another efficacious method was to lie flat on the ground under the tanks’ line of fire and to throw grenades under a tank, where one usually found a vulnerable spot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 6
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132FIGHTING TANKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 6
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