20230422 (63)_Eighth_Army_fire_captured_gun
Struggling without much armour support and under assault by Afrika Korps troops backed up by armour including a Tiger, the Sherwood Foresters - without training as artillerymen - brought into action a captured gun. Some have claimed that it disabled the Tiger but nobody really knows: the disabling shell has been stated to be a six-pounder (meaning the 57mm gun present at the battle in Churchill tanks) which would rule it out. Certainly the Churchills hit the Tiger more than once, with a shell through the open loader's hatch and another that ricocheted from the left turret lifting lug (leaving a scar still visible as the Tiger in question is The Tank Museum's running "Tiger 131").
20230422 (63)_Eighth_Army_fire_captured_gun
Struggling without much armour support and under assault by Afrika Korps troops backed up by armour including a Tiger, the Sherwood Foresters - without training as artillerymen - brought into action a captured gun. Some have claimed that it disabled the Tiger but nobody really knows: the disabling shell has been stated to be a six-pounder (meaning the 57mm gun present at the battle in Churchill tanks) which would rule it out. Certainly the Churchills hit the Tiger more than once, with a shell through the open loader's hatch and another that ricocheted from the left turret lifting lug (leaving a scar still visible as the Tiger in question is The Tank Museum's running "Tiger 131").