Skip to main content

deception plan & the start of the war







(Egyptian military deception was even more effective. Reports were given instructing cadets in military colleges to resume their courses on October 9, and officers were allowed to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca.On 4 October the Egyptian media reported that 20,000 reservists had been demobilized. Immediately before the assault on the morning of 6 October, the Egyptians deployed special squads of troops along the canal their task was to move about without helmets, weapons or shirts, and to swim, hang out fishing lines and eat oranges.)
At 2.05 hour at noon of the sixth of October, 220 Egyptian air crafts crossed Suez Canal at low height to bombard Israeli targets in Sinai. This strike achieved its target successfully and Egypt lost 11 air crafts only, one of them was for Atef Al Sadat, brother of the late president Anwar Al Sadat.


At the same time, more than 2000 artillery of different types along the front bombarded Israeli points on the eastern front of Suez Canal –Sinai– which continued for 53 minutes.
At the same time the Egyptian Second Army forces under leadership of general Saad Al Din Maamoun and the Third Army under leadership of general Abdel Moneim Wassel, crossed the Canal successfully by different Kinds of rubbers and wooden boats.

The Egyptian Engineering corps succeeded to build the first heavy bridge about eight O’clock in the evening, and after eight hours, at 10.30 O’clock they made 60 passage in the dust shield along the front, built 8 heavy bridges, 4 light bridges and 30 ferryboats.
The fall of Barlev Line and liberation of El Quantara East City, and severe battles between the Egyptian and Israeli armies at a depth of 9-12 Kilometer along the front, at the east of Suez Canal –Sinai– through 6,7,8, October, Israel lost 400 tanks and many were killed and wounded.

U.S.A. begins to enter the war on 8 October with Israel against Egypt and Syria. Photos of Positions of Egyptians forces were shot by the satellite with a responsible from American Ministry of Defense to Israel.

The Israeli counter-attack on 8 October failed and colonel Assaf Yagoury falls as the most famous captive.





Israeli air forces fail to destroy the Egyptian air defense network which used all kinds of SAM missiles efficiently and fall of many Israeli aircrafts, reached to 50 aircrafts at the first three Golda Meir screams "Save Israel" and USA promises to compensate its losses on 9 October.



9 October, the Egyptian Second and Third army reached 15 Kilometers in the depth of Sinai.

10 October, the Start of American reinforcements arrival.





12 October, Sadat issues a political decision to develop the attack towards the east to lighten the pressure on Syria.





13 October, the American president Nixon issues a decision to make an American Airlift to Israel to compensate its losses of war.





13 October, field Marshal Ahmed Ismail, General leader of the Egyptian army issues a decision to both the second and third army to postpone the attack to 14 October as per demand of the leadership of the two armies.





13 October, an American discovery aircraft SR 71, crossed the Egyptian air space at three times the speed of sound, at a height of 25 Km. (We could not overthrow this aircraft because it is out of scope of Egyptian missiles, and our aircrafts could not reach it)-Memorials of El Gamsy Chief of Operations Staff– of October 1973 war.





13 October, killing of an Israeli general leader in Sinai Albert Mandler.



14 October, the Egyptian army developed the attack towards the east without coverage of the air defense and suffered gross losses of tanks and Saad Maamoun the Leader of the Second Army had a heart attack, and its Leadership of the Second Army transferred to General Abdel Moneim Khalil.



17 October, the Israeli Army did The Gap at the Deversoir region, and three armoured detachments with leadership of Ariel Sharon, Avraham Adan and Kalman Magen, crossed to the western side of the Canal under severe bombarding by the artillery of the second army under leadership of Abdel Halim Abo Ghazala.







17 October 1973, Saudi Arabia and other Arab Countries begin reduction of their production of petroleum to countries who help Israel.





20 and 21 October, failure of Ariel Sharon to occupy Ismailia and encircle the second army.





21 October, the issuance of Resolution No. 338 of the Security Council for cease-fire, that Egypt and Israel agreed upon.





22 October, Israel did not respect the Cease-fire Resolution and continued its military operation at the east of the Canal.



23 October, the Security Council issued its second Resolution No. 339 for Cease-fire that Egypt and Israel agreed upon.





24 October, Israel did not respect the cease-fire Resolution for the second time and tried to occupy Suez City.





25 October, failure of Israel to occupy the city, and gross losses of tanks by the resistance of Suez City supported by tanks hunters from the infantry detachment No. 19 of the third army.



26 and 27 October, Israel cut the Cairo–Suez road to stop provision to the Third Army.



28 October, arrival of international emergency forces and the end of the war between Egypt and Israel.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The bindweeds of Egypt and their symbolic role for the deceased

http://www.egyptraveluxe.com/cairo_half_day_tour_to_cairo_egyptian_museum.php From the Middle Kingdom until the 18th Dynasty, representations are found of a parasitic bindweed associated with the stems of papyrus, . Its representations increase and refine themselves during the Amarnian period because of the naturalistic leaning to nature; but it is in Ramesside times, and more particularly that of Ramesses II, that the images become more beautiful and most detailed. The plant is frequently attached to the stem of the papyrus, or to bouquets, but being also able to, more rarely, exist separately. After the 20th Dynasty, if the theme persists, the quality of the representations decrease (as do all more representations of nature). This success under the Ramesseses is probably linked with the specific beliefs of that time, and notably the eminent place that the solar cults occupy. The nature of the plant has been under debate a long time ...
Post a Comment
Read more

US authorities return eight stolen ancient Egyptian artifacts

US authorities agreed to return eight ancient Egyptian artifacts stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country. Today, upon his arrival from the United States, Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim announced that US authorities agreed to return eight ancient Egyptian artefacts stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country. The objects are to arrive next month. The pieces include the upper part of a painted anthropoid wooden sarcophagus from the Third Intermediate period depicting a face of a woman wea ring a wig decorated with coloured flowers. Two linen mummy wrappings covered with plaster and bearing paintings showing winged amulets pushing the sun disc are also among the artefacts. Hieroglyphic text showing the name and titles of the deceased are also found on the plaster cover. The third piece is a cartonage painted mummy mask from the Third Intermediate period while the fourth and fifth items are Middle Kingdom wooden boats. The other three items are lim...
Post a Comment
Read more

what exactly happened to the Sphinx's nose?

The Sphinx's Nose The nose of the Great Sphinx at Giza is made conspicuous by its absence. What happened to it? The popular story is that the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte used the nose for target practice in 1798. Drawings done for La Description de L'Egypte depict a noseless Sphinx. The Sphinx, 1743. In 1737, British traveler Richard Pococke visited Egypt and made a sketch of the Sphinx that was published six years later. The nose is shown intact, but Pococke likely exercised his poetic license by adding it when it was not there (earlier, in 1579, Johannes Helferich had further taken an artist's liberties by depicting the Sphinx with a nose -- and with decidedly female features). Frederick Lewis Norden, an artist and marine architect, also sketched the Sphinx in 1737. His detailed drawings, published in 1755, were more realistic and showed the Sphinx with no nose. It is very unlikely that Norden would omit the nose if it was present. We can conclude that the...
Post a Comment
Read more