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...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...
...South Koreans had no tanks, no combat aircraft. Since they also lacked effective antitank guns, the appearance of the enemy's squat, death-dealing T-34s spread terror. Seoul fell without any semblance of a real battle. Syngman Rhee's government fled to Taejon-the first of its three forced moves during three months...
...beachhead had slacked off. It was no longer fashionable, however, for U.S. commanders and correspondents to surmise that the Communists were running out of horsepower. U.S. intelligence reported two new North Korean tank brigades, ready for action but not yet committed, and equipped with 84 brand-new Russian T-34s. U.S. carrier-plane pilots, raiding behind the 38th parallel, reported damaging 35 tanks at Pyongyang-which seemed to indicate that enemy tank replacements were not drying up. Said General Walker: "I don't believe we're in great danger, but we may get a bloody nose. The enemy...