Why this thread is in "Military History and Tactics" and not in "Strictly Photos & Video"?
I'm relatively new to mp.net. In fact, I subscribed to the forum after discovering this thread and reading it completely. So I know he answer your question.Originally Posted by BANDbrothers
Years ago, the thread was opened at the "Strictly Photos & Video" section. But the Egyptian and the Israeli contributors did not stop discussing and arguing who won the YKW, so the mods transferred the thread to the "Military History and Tactics" section.
Valley of tears-Golan-1973 Yom Kippur war
Destroyed Syrian T 62 tanks
Syrian T 55 days after the Yom Kippur War
Syrian BTR 60
Syrian T 55
Syrian BTR 50
Syrian anti aircraft unit in the Valley of Tears
Syrian trucks
Syrian armor after the war in the valley of tears
http://idf-armor.blogspot.fr/2009/08...om-kippur.htmlThe Valley of Tears - Emek HaBakha is the name given to an area in the Golan Heights after it became the site of a major battle in the Yom Kippur War. On 6 October, 1973 the Syrian 7th Infantry Division attacked the Israeli 7th Armored Brigade in the area between Mount Hermonit and a southern ridge known as "Booster" in Israel, or Tel el Mekhafi in Arabic.
The Syrians started the offensive with an artillery barrage, but failed to move tanks across the anti-tank ditch. They penetrated the Israeli defenses at night with the help of night vision equipment—equipment that the Israelis lacked. The next day, the Syrians mounted a second attack, and at one point in the engagement less than forty Israeli tanks were facing approximately 500 Syrian tanks.
On the fourth day, the 7th Brigade received a small reinforcement force when it was down to about a dozen tanks and almost out of ammunition and turned the battle
to offensive against the Syrians.
Cancelled…………
Captured Egyptian weapons
Mig 17 captured in Egypt 1973
Egyptian : K-61 on the right, PTS on the left captured during 1973
Egyptian armored bridge captured in the Suez canal
"Sagger" anti tank weapon on BRDM - captured in Egypt 1973
B R D M with Sagger anti tank weapon
T 62 captured in Egypt 1973
M1938 122 mm gun captured in Sinai During Yom Kippur War 1973
An Egyptian Mi 8 captured in Sinai During Yom Kippur War 1973
http://idf-armor.blogspot.fr/2008/12...banon-war.html
Newly released documents shed light on fateful exchange in the wake of the Yom Kippur War
Not long after the end of the Yom Kippur War, three young officers unburdened themselves in a hearing at army headquarters with two higher-ranking colleagues. The minutes of that meeting have been made available for public perusal.
"We are all to blame,” said Maj.-Gen. (res.) Meir Zorea, thereby preempting by four days President Ephraim Katzir. “I would hang people and sever heads and also replace the government of Israel.”
The date was November 20, 1973, less than four weeks after the cease-fire had taken effect on the Egyptian front in the Yom Kippur War. On the Syrian front, the situation had stabilized, but there was still occasional fire. The day after Zorea spoke, under pressure from the public, the Agranat Commission would arise to investigate part of the war: namely, the lead-up to its outbreak and its first three days.
“I should take the three of you and put you in jail, as rebels,” Zorea went on. Across from him, in the simple, whitewashed shed at the Kirya, the Israel Defense Forces’s headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the office of the head of the Training Branch, sat three young officers in the reserves........
Read the whole article here:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/israe...r-war-1.426331
An interesting link about the SR-71 reconnaissance operations during the war: http://www.wvi.com/%7Esr71webmaster/griffiss.html
Footage filmed by Spanish TV crews during the war
There are pictures of fight on the fronts that I've never seen.
The interviews are in Spanish, English, Arabic, French…
La guerra del Yom Kippur (1973) 1/4
Presentation of the footage (in Spanish) • a speech by Kissinger • footage of battles in Sinai and on the West Bank of the Suez Canal
La guerra del Yom Kippur (1973) 2/4
Footage from the Syrian front • Jerusalem • Cairo • more from the Egyptian and Syrian fronts • wounded Arab POWs in an Israeli hospital
La guerra del Yom Kippur (1973) 3/4
Wounded Arab POWs in an Israeli hospital • a civilian bus hit on a bombed road in Egypt • wounded Israeli POWs in an Egyptian hospital • a speech by Sadat • interview of Yasser Arafat • a speech by Golda Meir • interviews of Arab officials about the oil embargo.
La guerra del Yom Kippur (1973) 4/4
Interviews of Yitzhak Navon and Yasser Arafat
Wheres that video of an Egyptian Mig going dowm in the Sinai filmed by some Israeli tourists I believe?
Just to say: this thread is awesome. I pretend to go through all the 200+ pages of goodies! Love the color pics in the first ten pages.
Yom Kippur War was the most epic struggle for Israel, right up there with the War of Independence.
Articles from "Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library" on the Yom Kippur war: (use the download-button on the right to save as .pdf file)
1. Counterattack in the Sinai: 8th October 1973. By David Eshel (from page 54)
http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleit...d/470/rec/4544
2.Decisiveness of Israeli small-unit leadership on the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleit...2/id/85/rec/13
3. Israeli combined arms employment Um Katef, 1967: Suez Canal, 1973.
http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleit...id/1372/rec/65
The Roller Bridge Towed back in Sinai - 1974
Sirpad on Fresh forum found these pictures on the Picassa account of Batallion 94 of the Roller Bridge towed back in 1974.
Other 1974 pictures of the Batallion 74 Picassa account:
and more picturs from 74
Pictures of Brigade 600 - 143th Division
The pictures put online by Brigade 600 veterans.
On the way to the front
Touvia Raviv, the brigade commander
Touvia Raviv with soldiers of Battalion 409
The Chinese farm
The Chinese farm
Rockets shelling
Egyptian shelling of the area of the bridgehead
Matzmed
Lexicon road
Destroyed armor
A tank penetrated by Sagger ATGMs
The Roller bridge
The Dovrot bridge
3 Kilometers from Ismailia
Sharon on the West Bank
Sharon and the Brigade commanders of Division 143 - the West Bank
Sharon with the officers of Brigade 600 - The West Bank
The Intelligence platoon - Brigade 600
Suez City
Soldiers of Brigade 600 on a ship at Abadiya harbor
Entry to Fahid airport
Mock-up of a Mig - Fahid airport
IAF's transport planes - Fahid airport
A destroyed aircraft bunker - Fahid airport
Egyptian SAM bunkers on the West Bak, minutes before being blown ahead of IDF retreat to the East Bank
Explosion of the bunkers
Brigade 600 crosses the Suez Canal back to Sinai on the Stone bridge
The Website of Brigade 600: http://www.amuta600.org.il/default.asp
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