IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ADVANCING FIRST ARMY - The once doubted Churchill tank has proved its worth in Tunisia, in the fighting for Toukabeur they did wonderful work and their armour withstood all enemy shelling, their 6-pounders shaking the Germans. Some of them were the newest type of gun - in action for the first time, still a 6-pounder, it has a longer barrel and a muzzle velocity of 4,000 feet per second as compared with the 2,600 feet of the former type. Its shell will penetrate any known armour British Army

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