DAUNTLESS BATTERY
REFUSAL TO SURRENDER WHEN SURROUNDED BY NAZ: TANKS. WAY BROKEN THROUGH ENEMY CORDON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, July 31. “Come and get us,” was the reply of a British battery surrounded by German tanks in the El Alamein area when the Germans called upon the battery to surrender, states a correspondent broadcasting from the front. The German tanks attacked the battery early in the evening and the gunners replied until the barrels of their pieces must have been getting nearly red hot. German tanks and infantry broke through the British barrage at sunset and demanded a surrender, but a battery officer said this was “the last thing in their thoughts.” The battle continued for a long time, and then the defenders decided to break through the German tank screen to the east. The battery ran the gauntlet through machine-gun fire at close range, while the German tanks engaged them, but the guns were travelling too fast for them and not only got out, but also picked up some infantry.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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176DAUNTLESS BATTERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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