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Instead next morning allied planes and ships began to soften up Port Said for a seaborne landing. When the bombardment ended, commandos, more paratroopers and armor began to pour ashore. (One Royal Marine Commando, 500 strong, made the trip from ship to shore by helicopter, thereby scoring a first in the history of amphibious warfare.) Some headed down the canal, got within 20 miles of Ismailia before the cease-fire took effect. Others, supported by tanks, probed through the streets of Port Said slowly cleaning out stubbornly resisting remnants of the Egyptian army and the irregulars of Nasser...
...center column, moving in past Kuntilla, drew blood only a few miles inside Sinai. It encountered Egyptian armor, mostly Soviet T-34 tanks. After 16 hours, it scattered the defenders...
Third Day. In a stretch of dune country in north-central Sinai, at a vital road junction called Abu Aweigila, the Egyptians threw their one fierce punch. Israeli Shermans and AMXs ran into a strong battalion of Egyptian armor, veered away from it while Israeli infantry moved to the attack. Overhead, Israeli Mysteres spotted a major reinforcing column (it apparently was a full corps of up to 50,000 men) lumbering eastward along the macadam road from Ismailia. Egyptian Vampires and MIGs came in to cover the reinforcements, fell into battle with Israeli fighters. By late...
Fourth Day. When dawn broke over the tank battlefield of Abu Aweigila, the Israels discovered that in the darkness the Egyptians had pulled out what was left of their armor, to scurry to safety west of the Suez. A considerable remnant got away, but the Egyptians' one big punch had failed...
Four days later events gave terrible point to his words. It was the Russians who "stood up in action," sweeping intc Hungary with the full, brutal weight oi their armor. The cardinal took refuge in the U.S. embassy while the battle raged outside...