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I was asked by Oded Messer, operation officer of Yitzhak Sadeh, to bring our M-2 mortars to another battlefield, Iraq al-Manshiyya. We fired several shells from this canon, which had a barrel made from a train wagon axle. This weapon was quite effective. It was not heavy and could be carried by hand, unlike the M-3, which was heavy and dangerous. I
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Christiaan Rudolf de Wet,
Max Boot • Invisible Armies
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Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
We conducted the first experiments near the Sharon Hotel in Herzliya, shooting into the Mediterranean. This was our base and practically the first artillery base of the Israeli Defense Forces. This mortar, or our “heavy artillery,” as we called it, contributed much to our war efforts. It was used by Yitzhak Sadeh and his troops in their attempts to
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R. W. Volckmann’s We Remained (Volckmann 1954).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
During my service as a policeman, I participated in a reconnaissance-commanding course. We surveyed Arab villages near our neighborhood. In those days, we did not have cameras with which to take pictures of enemy “objects.” Instead, we employed the techniques used by Gary Cooper in the film For Whom the Bells Tolls and drew them (Picture 7). This w
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