Medal Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of "The Acre Prison Break" - May 4, 1947

1997

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Soldiers were hurt when their truck ran over one of the road mines strewn by the attackers to block reinforcements for Acre. Thirty minutes after the attack a party of men hurled six bombs from a truck into an army camp two miles north of Acre. It waltz not known immediately whether casualties resulted. Although one of the least costly attacks in British lives, the prison break was the most daring and sensational one yet made by the underground. The blow had obviously been planned minutely for many days. Despite its spectacular success, it cost the guerrilla forces more in killed, wounded and captured than had any recent incident in Palestine. This may have been the under-ground's pay-off for the hanging of four convicted terrorists in the same prison on April 16. The as-sault that broke down the walls that Napoleon had not been able to reduce was planned and executed with the usual dash and precision of the terrorists, many of whom had served in the armies