Six-Day War 1967. The devastating first strikes that won the Israel
air supremacy
Aloni, Shlomo/Tooby, Adam
On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was
turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air
superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus.
In 1967, the Israeli Air Force was outnumbered more than two to one
by the jets of hostile Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. Operation
Focus was Israel's ingenious strike plan to overturn the balance.
At 0745hrs on June 6, Israeli jets hit Egypt's airfields
simultaneously, first bombing runways and then strafing aircraft.
Another 20 follow-up missions were already in the air, initially
scheduled to hit every five minutes.
This new history of Operation Focus explains how the concept for
Focus was devised and meticulously planned, the astonishing rate of
serviceability and turnaround speed it required from ground crews,
and how the relentless tempo of strikes shattered one air force
after another. It is the story of how Israel's victory in the
Six-Day War began with a single, shocking day.
Paperback, 96 Seiten, durchgängig bebildert mit zeitgenössischen
Fotos, Farbillustrationen von Kampfsituationen, Karten und 3D
Operationsdiagrammen, engl. Text
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