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...first light of dawn, troop-car rying Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead...
Major General Joseph M. Saving's airborne troops marched quickly down from Aparri. North to meet them pounded in fantrymen of the 37th Division, making ten to 14 miles a day. Commented the 37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala...
Into Merkers, an undistinguished vil lage about 15 miles southwest of Eisenach in mid-Germany, slogged the weary in fantrymen of Major General Herbert L. Earnest's 90th Division. Their job last week was the usual one of follow-through after Lieut. General George S. Patton's advanced tank forces: unsnarling knots of resistance, sorting out prisoners and slave laborers. Of the latter there were many for Merkers' big salt mines...
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