Word: halftrack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 of the advancing columns, and delta-wing jets blazoned...
Taxi for Tobruk is a modest French-made drama that effectively understates the points that None But the Brave garbles at the top of its Voice. The setting is North Africa, 1942. Shelled out of their halftrack vehicle, four French soldiers flee across the desert. Next day they slip up to a German patrol car and slaughter four men camped on the sand near by. The fifth, an arrogant young Afrika Korps captain (Hardy Kruger), becomes their prisoner...
...knocking out one German emplacement after another. Heroism in the hills helped. Under heavy fire, an American sergeant maneuvered his antitank gun to the top of a ridge, demolished six tanks in half an hour. A British major given up for lost behind enemy lines reappeared with an enemy halftrack in tow, plus an 88-mm. gun and a dozen prisoners. A fiery British commando lieutenant colonel named Jack Churchill,* waving a sword in one hand, took 30 prisoners singlehanded. When an admiring if puzzled superior asked why the sword, Churchill replied: "In my opinion, any officer who goes into...