3in 20cwt AA and 3.7in AA not found?

[montieth]

I remembering from memory as to the actual date/time of the engagement, but it was certainly tigers in North Africa. I had assumed from memory it was tobruk, but, thinking about the time line, you are right.

Well, found the photos but I'll also write Derek and ask if he has the writeups on what he found from unit histories. As I said, I found the photos of the guns he sent me but not the research materials (aside from a hard to read letter from a veteran who crewed the guns).

I'll write out the letter here. Intersting, I had mis-rememberd that it was in North Africa. It was apparently in Nijmegan. Must have been after the Market Garden op or on the tail end of it when the Allies knocked around on the island opposite the Germans.

Dear Derek
I don't know that I can be much help to you about the 3.7 AA in AT role.
We operated in an AT role against german tiger tanks in the Reischwald forest, near Nigjmegan in Octoer 1940 [prob 1944] using 3.7s.
I was not on the guns then, being observation officer in the AA operations room, and also in the OP in Nijmegan stadium in a fox hole(?) [unreadable line] the gun-flashes from the German tanks. The shells whistled past the OP BOX like express trains.
As far as training for AT role, the lads said they were presented with armour piercing shells and told to "get on with it" and happily fired away as instructed by the Ops Room, which of course relayed direction, range & elevation etc. Sorry thats all I can tell you.