An Israeli Army bulletin revealed today that, during the Sinai campaign in 1956, the army captured 110 medium tanks. The bulletin also disclosed that the army captured 350 Brencars and half-tracks, 600 bazookas, 2,700 vehicles, more than 6,000 units of semi-automatic rifles and machine guns, 139,000 mortar shells, 270,000 artillery shells, and 40,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition.
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