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The objective was to seize the guns at Sharm el-Sheikh and lift the closure of the Straits of Tiran. Her commander was Colonel Avraham Yoffe, and she was part of a motorized infantry brigade of two thousand soldiers and two hundred vehicles.

Their route was along a camel track that was  never designed to be used by wheeled vehicles. At one point at Wadi Zaala they all had to break out their spades,  dig their vehicles out  of deep sand, and push them uphill.

At Dahab  Oasis they  had  their  first firefight,  at  sunset, against the camel-mounted troops of the Egyptian Frontier Force. Later in the evening the force iwas supplied with fuel in drums from a set of twenty barges  towed down the Gulf  of Aqaba from Eilat. Judith volunteered to  join a  regiment-sized detachment who would board these barges to attack the Egyptians from the

At Sharm el-Sheikh a huge battery of naval guns were positioned to block all shipping making  its way to Eilat. There, fifteen hundred Egyptian troops with  their mortars and  artillery held off the Israelis advancing overland led by Colonel Ariel Sharon.

Judith's amphibious assault arrived  under the guise  of twenty deceptively painted, weathered-looking old barges  slowly towed behind a jumbo tugboat. They were in two parallel trains of ten containers all linked  together by  flexible couplings. At Lt. Colonel Motti Adan's command they all simultaneously broke free from each other and began  moving under their own  power toward the assigned beach. All twenty of the  special landing  craft began to take 40mm mortar fire  from somewhere in the  town but this was mainly just an annoyance. Each landing craft was coated with tank armor and constructed in the best shape for defense.

Judith made her way to the front of her  barge, pushing through the men and women hanging on to straps from the ceiling. Judith raised her voice to  address her  people, saying,  "I've spoken with  Colonel Adan.  He gave  us the  most dangerous  stretch of beach  possible.  We'll be  practically  single  file. When  you disembark immediately  turn to  the right and  get off  the sand spit as  soon as possible.  We're the  first. Our mission  is to take out the  big guns that have been turned  inland against the threat of our motorized infantry. You can hear them even now."

The boat officer beached Judith's  assault craft right  up onto the sand. The wall behind Judith dropped down to become a ramp, revealing a beach being torn  up by  mortar fire. She knew the heavy shelling was soon to come. She yelled "Follow Me!" and led her people out onto the sand, the 1st Platoon of Gold Company.