Sayeret
04-24-2005, 04:40 AM
No one knew his right name, they called him the "Mad Russian".
Every night, just before sundown, he climbed into an old Piper Cub
and flew off toward Gaza. In his lap were two dozzen hand grenades, and in the rear seat a burlap bag filled with empty bottles.
He dived down to treetop level and hurled the grenades at the
Egyptian troops. After exhausting the grenades, he would
reach behind him for the burlap bag and bombard the enemy
soldiers with the empty bottles.
One day he did not return.
There is a wonderful, but true story of the successful purchase of three British Beaufighter bombers by agents of Rekhesh but with no way of smuggling them out of England. The planes were then 'sold' to a movie company that supposedly needed them for a film it was producing about WWII. It was shooting some flying scenes at a small airfield in southern England when the three Bristol Beaufighters took off in perfect formation while the cameras rolled, and, like those copper-top batteries in the TV ads, they just kept going and going and going. Later that evening, three Bristol Beaufighters, with their tired but jubilant crews, landed at an airfield in Israel ready to take to the skies to defend Israel and its people.
In 1948, Czechoslovakia, desperate for hard currency, was one of the few countries that agreed to sell arms to Israel - though at a price! - $40,000 per Messerschmitt fighter plane plus $10,000 per pilot for the two week training program. Yugoslavia had also agreed to let the Haganah use their ports and airfields to transship the desperately needed military supplies. And on May 20, 1948, an Israeli airlift, code-named Balak, began in an airfield in Czechoslovakia using volunteers from the States and Canada to fly in critically needed military supplies in an old Constellation flying the Panamanian flag. By June 11, it had made thirty flights and had delivered over one hundred tons of precious cargo for Israel's defence.
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section1.html
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section2.html
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section3.html
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section4.html
Every night, just before sundown, he climbed into an old Piper Cub
and flew off toward Gaza. In his lap were two dozzen hand grenades, and in the rear seat a burlap bag filled with empty bottles.
He dived down to treetop level and hurled the grenades at the
Egyptian troops. After exhausting the grenades, he would
reach behind him for the burlap bag and bombard the enemy
soldiers with the empty bottles.
One day he did not return.
There is a wonderful, but true story of the successful purchase of three British Beaufighter bombers by agents of Rekhesh but with no way of smuggling them out of England. The planes were then 'sold' to a movie company that supposedly needed them for a film it was producing about WWII. It was shooting some flying scenes at a small airfield in southern England when the three Bristol Beaufighters took off in perfect formation while the cameras rolled, and, like those copper-top batteries in the TV ads, they just kept going and going and going. Later that evening, three Bristol Beaufighters, with their tired but jubilant crews, landed at an airfield in Israel ready to take to the skies to defend Israel and its people.
In 1948, Czechoslovakia, desperate for hard currency, was one of the few countries that agreed to sell arms to Israel - though at a price! - $40,000 per Messerschmitt fighter plane plus $10,000 per pilot for the two week training program. Yugoslavia had also agreed to let the Haganah use their ports and airfields to transship the desperately needed military supplies. And on May 20, 1948, an Israeli airlift, code-named Balak, began in an airfield in Czechoslovakia using volunteers from the States and Canada to fly in critically needed military supplies in an old Constellation flying the Panamanian flag. By June 11, it had made thirty flights and had delivered over one hundred tons of precious cargo for Israel's defence.
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section1.html
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section2.html
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section3.html
http://www.sabra.net/machal/section4.html