GUNS & TANKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1942, Page 3

GUNS & TANKS

NEW TACTICS IN NORTH AFRICA ADOPTED BY BOTH SIDES. COMPOSITION OF BATTLE GROUPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 28. Correspondents suggest that the British tactics of the Battle of Libya have been considerably modified for the present operations. The Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that each side is setting its guns against the adversary’s tanks and armoured cars, and there is comparatively little pitched tank fighting. The artillery is playing a greater part and infantry in fixed positions is counting for less than in the earlier battles. The British have brought up a large number of newly-arrived guns, particularly six-pounder anti-tank guns, and the British and German mobile artillery is constantly seeking to ambush the enemy tanks. The military writer of “The Times” says that the “battle groups” mentioned in today’s communique probably replace the stationary “boxes” of the Battle of Libya. The correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says the battle groups normally include tanks, armoured cars, anti-tank guns and antiaircraft guns.