TANK DEADLOCK

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15237, 30 December 1942, Page 2

TANK DEADLOCK

DESERT EXPERIENCE. United Press Assn. —By Elective Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, Dec 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 followmg up the retreating Germans and German stuck his head out of the retreating enemy wlien, we saw a tank aerial mast coming up the other side. We lobbed over a coupie of shells and they did the same. \\e manoeuvred round and crept to the summit. The enemy did the nine. Both ftred shells which hit the crest of the hillock. ‘‘Neither could mount the ciest without making a sitting shot frith© other. We hoth nipped downhill manoeuvred to the summit again ai d got into the same predicament. A. German stuck his head out f tie turret, and we sat 50 yards «v ay Looking at each other with our gi j.s 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,’ and we both retreated down our own side of the hillock.'