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...bulldozer was transported by lorry to a nearby point and then unloaded for battle under the command of a cockney driver. The task of this "land force" was to break down the thornbush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Operations in Nigeria | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Nigeria, British West Africa, a village chief was recently giving shelter to two natives wanted on criminal charges. Around his village, the chief built a "Maginot Line" of thornbush to keep out the authorities who wished to arrest the wanted men. For the first time in the history of human conflict the mechanical bulldozer-a contraption which is used to level bumpy ground-was to go into battle with fighter cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Operations in Nigeria | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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