"TACKLE ANYTHING"
ADMIRATION FOR THE DIV.
CAY.
The dash and courage of the Div. Cay.—the Tank Corps in other words
-is a byword among the New Zealanders who saw ; them in action in the Libyan Desert against superior numbers and superior weight of metal. "They were magnificent," said a Wellington man, -vho miraculously survived a bullet that-actually penetrated his brain and who recently returned home. "They would take on anything. I saw two tanks with New Zealanders in them tackle a column of 7C German armoured cars and towel them up properly. Our tank batteries were all right. In one afternoon I saw 35 German tanks —they were heavy twenty-tonners—cleaned up bj* one four-gur, battery, and ancther afternoon another battery accounted for 38. The first battery was manned by New Zealanders and South Africans, and the other by New Zealanders. At times we had to take on almost impossible odds, but we somehow managed to get through most of the time. Why the Germans retreated I don't know."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 6
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