Word: aska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab 130-and 122-mm. shells rained down on the slender column at the rate of ten tons a minute. Barreling straight into bazookas and antitank guns leveled to fire in flat trajectory, the Israeli tankers hit the first fortification, Gu el Aska, head-on at full speed. They pushed aside the barbed wire, thundered heedlessly through a minefield, smashed into bunkers and overran trenches. Some Syrian soldiers were crushed under the tanks; those that jumped aside fired in astonishment at the speeding tanks already bypassing them to continue growling...
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