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A German soldier was part of the Nazi effort to locate the Ark of the Covenant in the Well of the Souls at the Tanis digsite outside Cairo, Egypt in 1936. Serving under Colonel Herman Dietrich, Major Gobler, French archaeologist René Emile Belloq and Gestapo agent Major Arnold Ernst Toht, the soldier was among those who were sent as reinforcements when a fight broke out between American archaeologist Indiana Jones and a German Sergeant. However, all of the reinforcements were gunned down by Marion Ravenwood using the turret of the jet plane Flying Wing.
Biography[]
Fight by the Flying Wing[]
The German reinforcements arriving at the brawl.
In 1936, a German soldier was part of the German effort to locate the Ark of the Covenant in the Well of the Souls at the Tanis digsite outside Cairo, Egypt in 1936. Serving under Colonel Herman Dietrich, Major Gobler, French archaeologist René Emile Belloq and Gestapo agent Major Arnold Ernst Toht. After the Ark was recovered from the Well of the Souls by American archaeologist Indiana Jones and his associate Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir and then captured by the Nazis, the relic was scheduled to be stored on the jet plane Flying Wing, with soldiers preparing to fly the plane out of Tanis, Egypt to Berlin, Germany so that they could deliver the Ark to the Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler.[1]
The driver been shot down.
However, having escaped Nazi imprisonment inside the Well of the Souls, Jones and his companion, bar owner Marion Ravenwood, sneaked onto the airstrip just as Major Gobler and his driver left following an inspection, the Americans planning to take control of the Flying Wing and depart with the Ark. When a fight broke out between Jones and a Sergeant, this soldier and eight others were sent to assist in a troop carrier, this soldier driving the truck. But, as they approached the scene, Marion mounted the Flying Wing's turret and shot down every Nazi soldier in the truck save for the driver and one passenger. The driver managed to exit the vehicle and draw a rifle, but was then immediately shot and killed.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The German troop carrier reinforcement was portrayed by an uncredited performer in Raiders of the Lost Ark.