TOO CLOSE TO FIGHT
TANK ENCOUNTER IN DESERT. BRITISH GUNNER’S STORY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, December 28. The strange story of what can happen when tanks get too close is told by a British tank gunner, says the “Daily Express” correspondent with the Eighth Army. “We were following up the retreating Germans and hid behind a hillock to shoot up the retreating enemy when we saw a tank aerial coming up the other side. We lobbed over a couple of shells and they did the same. We manoeuvred round and crept to the summit. The enemy did the same. Both fired shells which hit the crest of the hillock.
“Neither could mount the crest without making a sitting shot for the other. We both nipped downhill, manoeuvred to the summit again, and got into the same predicament. A German stuck his head out of the turret, and we sat 50 yards away looking at each other, with our guns pointing to the sky, waiting for the other to make the first move. “It was a deadlock. The situation was solved when the German waved and shouted a ‘good morning.’ Our squadron leader shouted back ‘good morning,’ land we both retreated down our own Iside of the hillock.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 2
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