... Corps (CTC) to provide support in the defense of the Suez Canal and the crossing of Mount Sinai. camels Dawnay Guy Payan Eastern Force Egyptian Expeditionary Force EEF Arab assistance to El Arish Lynden Bell A L Murray Archibald railways across Sinai Sinai Desert ix Suez Canal ix Benbow A S...

... operations and politics Operation Stouthearted Men Israel Defense Forces the crossing battle Suez Canal Egyptian army roller bridge Matzmed Unifloat rafts Crocodile rafts At 0600, the bridge, weighing hundreds of tons, lay idle in the sand near Akavish 55 after having broken apart during towing...

... Ilan Operation Stouthearted Men Israel Defense Forces the crossing battle Suez Canal Egyptian army roller bridge Matzmed Unifloat rafts Crocodile rafts Chinese Farm Battle The roller bridge was still lying north of Akavish Road waiting for Tirtur Road to be opened. The Unifloat raft convoy...

... versus offense, the preemptive strike, and strategic depth. The main focus, however, is the tactical and operational analysis of the defensive battle in Sinai between October 6 and 15, 1973, and the missed opportunity to prevail in the defensive campaign on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal. Bar Lev Lt...

... Suez Canal bridgehead infantry Artillery Road Akavish Road October 8 There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom. (Eccles. 9:10) At noon on October 7, the General Staff and the commanding general of the Southern Command, General Gonen, already knew that the 162nd Tank Division...

...When fighting erupted on the Suez Canal in July 1967, hostilities intensified, and Israeli casualties mounted. General Headquarters (GHQ) sought the best way to defend the canal according to the government's unwritten directive: not one inch for the enemy! It decided to build the Bar-Lev Line...

... headquarters ammunition shortage Brigadier General Avner Shalev Israel Defense Forces Southern Command Mossad Zefania General Gonen counterattack Yom Kippur War Suez Canal 252nd Division On the morning of Yom Kippur, none of the 436 men and officers in the sixteen strongholds on the Bar-Lev Line...

... Natan “Pit” bunker command post in Hakirya Brigade 1st Brigade Egypt 3rd Brigade 4th Division Egypt understanding of the movements and intentions of Marom Col Oded Wadi Mabrook Eitan Lt Gen Rafael strike Lachish Lt Col Zeev War of Attrition Egypt air superiority close air support Suez Canal...

...This chapter examines the arrival of British troops in Egypt. The massive flow of troops and equipment to Egypt eventually made that country the greatest British military base outside of Britain and France. The British soldiers were deployed to protect the Suez Canal and those stationed there lived...

... Syrian joint attack on the day of Yom Kippur Israel Sadat Anwar tanks movement on tracks October 7 Reshef Amnon 14th Brigade commander Bar Lev Line and strongholds purpose of Purkan Israel Defense Forces Suez Canal 143rd Armored Division Yom Kippur Southern Command reservist-based army...

... Command resolved to achieve a decisive defeat of Egyptian army and end the conflict. Israeli strategists determined that the best option would be to cross the Suez Canal in an operation called Stouthearted Men. Operation Stouthearted Men, implemented on October 15, lasted until the ceasefire on October 25...

... Division 600th Brigade 143rd Division deception maneuver Geller Yehuda 410th Battalion commander Raviv Tuvia 600th Brigade commander Yitzhak Uzi Ben 409th Battalion commander Suez Canal 247th Brigade 143rd Division Acapulco western shore reached Ziv Dan 565th Battalion commander Matt Danny 247th...

...The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War or the October War, was fought by Israel against a coalition of Arab nations, led by Syria and Egypt. The war lasted nineteen days, with the pivotal moment being Major General Ariel Sharon’s crossing of the Suez Canal, which is known as the crossing...