 In a 1985 issue of "After the Battle Magazine", Les Taylor, a wartime member of the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, claimed that fellow yeoman Ekins was responsible for the destruction of Wittmann's tank.Veteran and historian Ken Tout, a member of the same unit, also published a similar account crediting Ekins.Historians have supported this position, and it became the widely accepted version of events.