Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

When they were not relieved as expected at 04:00 on 8 June the unit perceived that it was exposed to possible attack and – on its own initiative – assaulted a nearby Vichy police station capturing it in a firefight. He had been in ill-health since 1980 after he was diagnosed with colon cancer late that year.

The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–58) he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel. He went on to become Defense Minister and later Foreign Minister of Israel. MoMoshe Dayan Dayan (Hebrew: משה דיין‎; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician.