There is a lot of ghosts with smoke and mirrors about the story of the actual capture of the Tiger 131 in Africa, several books have claims of things done that have since been shrouded in doubt from letters to the Bovington museum from Douglas Lidderdale prior to his death. What we do know, is that it was a matter of priority to capture a Tiger by any means possible. The then Major Lidderdale was tasked with the supervision of the recovery operation on a machine that caused a lot of fear in the Allied ranks, it was commonly called “Tigerphobia”. It was the 48th Royal tank Regiment that played the vital part in the capture of the 131, the unit had been sent to Tunisia to fight against the German forces there in April 1943.