GOT IN TOO CLOSE
TANKS' PREDICAMENT INCIDENT IN THE DESERT (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28. A 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 retreating Germans and hid behind a hillock to attack the retreating enemy. We saw a tank aerial mast coming up on the other side and we lobbed over a couple of shells. They did the same. We manoeuvred round and crept to the summit. The enemy did the same. Both fired shells and hit the hillock crest. 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. We sat 50 yards apart looking at each other, with the guns pointing to the sky, each waiting for the other to make the first move. It was a deadlock situation, which was. solved when the German waved and shouted 'good morning.' Our squadron leader shouted back 'good morning,' and we both retreated down our own side of the hillock."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25111, 30 December 1942, Page 4
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