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The American tank, nicknamed "Lulubelle," was a 28-ton (25.4 t) medium tank with 30 and 50 caliber machine guns and a 75 millimeter cannon. The tank required 100 octane fuel. Because no German equipment was available for the production, U.S. equipment was substituted and dressed with German markings.
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The German aircraft strafing the tank was actually an early P-51B. The movie utilized real soldiers as background artists and extras. They had been situated close by to the production at Camp Young, California where they were in training.
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Sahara: Directed by Zoltan Korda. With Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges. After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
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The 1943 movie Sahara pits a motley Allied tank crew against the Nazis—and against a desert where death by thirst is only one empty canteen away. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Dan Duryea, Bruce ...
Dec 8, 2008 · The film is a pretty standard tale of a lost tank crew (commanded by Bogart) attempting to rejoin their lines. Along the way they pick up a veritable baker’s dozen of other folks, including British soldiers, a Sudanese soldier, and a Free French Soldier. They also take prisoner, so to speak, both an Italian soldier and a German fighter pilot.
After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water. Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to ...
Sahara is a 1943 American action war film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Humphrey Bogart as an American tank commander in Libya who, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
