Word: 34s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forwarded its drawings to the company for approval, they were too authentic; a secret stamp was slapped on them until the Air Force cleared vital details a month later. For the Russian T-34 tank model, Revell badgered the Israeli army into sending drawings and details of Soviet T-34s the Egyptians had abandoned in the Sinai desert...
...than carried out. With Egypt's airfields under Anglo-French attack, Nasser could not give his retreating forces air cover. By the time it got back across the Suez Canal, he admitted, the main body of his armored forces had lost 30 out of about 200 Russian T-34s and 50 out of 300 armored cars. At Abu Aweigila, site of the heaviest fighting in Sinai, the Egyptians, according to Nasser, lost another 24 artillery pieces, 24 self-propelled guns and 21 Sherman tanks. Nonetheless, he insisted, the Israelis (who claim to have captured more than 100 tanks...
...cost of less than 800 casualties, including 150 dead, the Israelis claimed to have killed 3,000 Egyptians, captured 7,000 more and destroyed twelve Egyptian jets. What impressed them most of all, however, was the booty they collected: more than 100 tanks (many of them heavy Soviet T-34s). nearly 200 artillery pieces, small arms by the thousands, and enough gasoline to supply Israel's civilian needs for a year. "It is only now," said Premier Ben-Gurion somewhat nervously, "that we have fully realized how great in quantity, how modern and excellent in quality were the Egyptian...
...attacking Chinese were helped by Russian-built T-34 tanks and by planes, apparently propeller-driven Yaks. Two T-34s were wrecked by swarming allied planes. A U.S. armored task force rushed to the rescue of the trapped battalion. The tanks took up the American dead and wounded and, with machine guns sweeping the roadsides, charged three miles back to the U.N. main lines. Then the battalion also fought its way out in an 18-hour battle. Said Lieut. Colonel Robert Demers, the battalion commander: "We got all our men out-the living, the wounded and the dead...
...tankmen, who had hemmed & hawed awkwardly while the Russian T-34s made trouble for the lightweight U.S. Chaffees in the first days of Korea, had other reasons to speak up in a clear voice. Their medium Pattons had proved an easy winner over the Russian T-34 in Korea (although they had yet to meet Russia's newest and most formidable). In one classic encounter, 16 Pattons had knocked out 16 T-34s with only minor damage to four Pattons. In another, one Patton had destroyed a T-34 in a gun duel at a mile's range...