Major Enemy Equipment
Destroyed and Damaged by the North Irish Horse - Tunisia 1943

Additional to those shown below, several Pak 40 50mm A/T Guns were destroyed/damaged. "Damaged" indicates equipment put out of action and abandoned by the enemy.

Index
Panzer Kpfw III
Panzer Kpfw IV
Panzer Kpfw VI - 'Tiger'
88mm AA/AT Gun
Messerschmitt 110

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Panzer Kpfw III - 7 destroyed, 10+ damaged

      


































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Panzer Kpfw IV - 2 destroyed

             




































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Panzer Kpfw VI

The first Tiger destroyed, by another tank, was by a Churchill of the North Irish Horse on 27.2.43 at a range of 500/600 yards. A second, hit on her port side, was abandoned by her crew and later blown up by the RE.
The photographs above are of Tiger 131, Pz.Abt.504, put out of action by a Churchill of 48th RTR in Tunisia on 21.4.43.
A North Irish Horse representative can just be seen on the extreme right of the group on her starboard side.

             




































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88mm AA/AT Gun - 2 destroyed, 7 captured.

             




































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Messerschmitt 110

Shot down by BESA fire, 10th April 1943, near Oued Zarga, Tunisia.

      


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