Bounding through the wreckage blanketing the street, McCabe sighted several civilians fighting alongside the MEF. Each of them carried German weaponry and wore homemade Israeli flags wrapped around their arms—Jewish insurgents. Given that Israel had been founded six years previously, he wondered how they could have learned of its existence while trapped here. Dodging a bullet, he filed that information away and watched them charge the Nazi forces with no regard for their own safety.
They braved the hail of enemy fire and fought to get close enough to shower their enemy with Molotov cocktails. Several Germans vaulted from their foxholes as the homemade explosives found their mark. MEF bullets pounded the burning Nazis when they tried to flee. On the right flank, regrouped Allied soldiers f
