THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - A decapitated body of a tank driver of a destroyed German Panzer IV tank in the field near Bou Arada, 18-19 January 1943. The Battle of Bou Arada. On 18 January 1943 the Germans launched a tank attack with Bou Arada as their objective. The British V Corps planned an attack on the German positions in the hills for 19th January. All British supplies were moving up for this attack and 25 pounder guns had occupied a small wood outside the town and had taken up positions covering the open plain. Bou Arada came within point blank ran
THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - A decapitated body of a tank driver of a destroyed German Panzer IV tank in the field near Bou Arada, 18-19 January 1943. The Battle of Bou Arada. On 18 January 1943 the Germans launched a tank attack with Bou Arada as their objective. The British V Corps planned an attack on the German positions in the hills for 19th January. All British supplies were moving up for this attack and 25 pounder guns had occupied a small wood outside the town and had taken up positions covering the open plain. Bou Arada came within point blank range of the British German tanks advanced to the middle of the plain where British 25 pounders caught them at 1800 yards range, knocking out 18 of them. The German positions are situated in the hills in the background British Army, British Army, 1st Army, German Army
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