 Jackson also wrote of tank losses.In the official history Major Lionel Ellis wrote that the 1st SS and 21st Panzer divisions lost on the first day of the battle.Reynolds recorded tanks or assault guns knocked out or damaged during the operation and that the claim of or assault guns destroyed—as stated in a post-war interview, by the commanding officer of the 11th Armoured Division, for a British staff college training film on the operation—"can be accepted as accurate".