History Channel - Battlefield Detectives: Israel's Six Day War Victory

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[Music] June 5th<font color="#E5E5E5"> 1967 7:45 a.m.</font> Israel delivers<font color="#E5E5E5"> a stunning opening blow</font> in the six-day<font color="#CCCCCC"> war within a few hours</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli air strike has devastated</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the egyptian air force fighting on three</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">different fronts against the combined</font> might of three<font color="#CCCCCC"> Arab armies Israel would</font> win a war<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the space of just</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> six days</font> how did this tiny nation<font color="#CCCCCC"> achieve one of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the most astonishing victories in the</font> history<font color="#CCCCCC"> of warfare</font> eyewitness testimony<font color="#E5E5E5"> unique access to</font> secret military<font color="#E5E5E5"> plans and weapons</font> testing reveal the<font color="#E5E5E5"> extraordinary story</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> how Israel won the six-day</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> war</font> [Music] in early<font color="#E5E5E5"> June 1967 tensions in the</font> Middle<font color="#CCCCCC"> East were rising</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian</font> President Gamal Abdel Nasser<font color="#E5E5E5"> had called</font> on the Arab nations<font color="#E5E5E5"> to destroy Israel</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">war seemed inevitable Israel faced the</font> grim prospect of a<font color="#E5E5E5"> simultaneous invasion</font> from<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egypt Syria and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Jordan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the combined</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Arab armies had a massive superiority in</font> numbers of<font color="#CCCCCC"> soldiers tanks</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and fighter</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">aircraft</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Israel is you'd not only by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">themselves but by the rest of the world</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">as a scrappy little</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nation on the very</font> edge of survival<font color="#E5E5E5"> the general mood in the</font> Arab world<font color="#E5E5E5"> was that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Israel is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not that</font> strong it could be defeated<font color="#E5E5E5"> yet against most</font> expectations the opposite happened in less<font color="#E5E5E5"> than a week Israel had defeated</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">its Arab neighbors how was such a</font> stunning victory<font color="#E5E5E5"> achieved to understand</font> the reasons for Israel's victory<font color="#CCCCCC"> it's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">necessary to go back to the early 1960s</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">at that time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> joash</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sit on was chief of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">planning in the IAF</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Israeli Air</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Force</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but it was pretty</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">obvious that not later than 68 they will</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">eventually attack a military coalition</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">between Egypt and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Syria</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> meant Israel</font> would<font color="#CCCCCC"> be facing battles on at least</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fronts it could expect attacks from</font> Egypt through the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Sinai desert and by</font> Syria<font color="#E5E5E5"> from the Golan Heights</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and it</font> seemed possible<font color="#E5E5E5"> that both Jordan and</font> Iraq<font color="#CCCCCC"> would add their weight to the Arab</font> force<font color="#E5E5E5"> now the question was can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font> defend<font color="#E5E5E5"> this kind of a sliver</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font> Mediterranean if they<font color="#E5E5E5"> attack the answer</font> is no the best form of<font color="#CCCCCC"> defense would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a strong offense</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a preemptive strike</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font> such a strategy<font color="#E5E5E5"> created its own problems</font> the Israelis could not afford<font color="#E5E5E5"> to put all</font> of their<font color="#CCCCCC"> oomph</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> against the Egyptians</font> and the Jordanians<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Syrians at</font> the same time they had to concentrate <font color="#E5E5E5">the Israelis had to concentrate</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their</font> force against one enemy at a time<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> fight a war the way it<font color="#E5E5E5"> wanted Israel</font> would need to gain air superiority<font color="#E5E5E5"> once</font> the Arab air forces had<font color="#CCCCCC"> been dealt with</font> Israel could fight each of their ground <font color="#E5E5E5">forces in turn in 1964</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sedan's team came</font> up<font color="#CCCCCC"> with an unorthodox plan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but the idea</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> came</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was to strike their air</font> strips<font color="#E5E5E5"> these classified plans have</font> remained secret<font color="#E5E5E5"> for forty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> years they</font> reveal how Israel would<font color="#CCCCCC"> achieve air</font> superiority <font color="#E5E5E5">the primary objective would be to keep</font> the Arab air forces on the<font color="#CCCCCC"> ground by</font> disabling the<font color="#E5E5E5"> runways of the egyptian</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">air force</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mmm Assyrian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> etc etc you</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">prevent the aircraft from taking off</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">targeting the runways would take</font> hundreds of Arab aircraft out of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">equation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the plan was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> good in theory but</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">what were its chances of success</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had</font> a problem<font color="#E5E5E5"> there they had tens of runways</font> more than 50 we had only 206 aircraft <font color="#E5E5E5">the problem they faced is a scenario the</font> Israeli Air Force trains<font color="#E5E5E5"> for to this day</font> how could<font color="#E5E5E5"> the IAF keep enough of their</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">aircraft in the air to destroy all their</font> targets<font color="#E5E5E5"> NATO used to consider three</font> missions per aircraft<font color="#CCCCCC"> per 24</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hours the</font> maximum<font color="#E5E5E5"> that couldn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be done but was</font> this really<font color="#CCCCCC"> the limit of what could be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">achieved a bright staff officer in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Israeli Air Force</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was running some</font> numbers<font color="#E5E5E5"> one day and realized that the</font> Israeli Air Force<font color="#E5E5E5"> could turn around an</font> aircraft<font color="#CCCCCC"> after mission</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in six to eight</font> minutes<font color="#E5E5E5"> everything would depend on how</font> fast the ground crews could work<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> did so<font color="#E5E5E5"> many exercises and drills to</font> reload<font color="#E5E5E5"> a refuel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> darica that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it took them</font> up till<font color="#CCCCCC"> 7</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> minutes</font> if the ground crew worked to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the limit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">each aircraft could fly up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to five</font> missions in one day but<font color="#E5E5E5"> for such an</font> operation<font color="#E5E5E5"> to succeed would still involve</font> taking<font color="#E5E5E5"> an incredible risk the Israeli</font> Air Force has got to commit<font color="#E5E5E5"> nearly a</font> hundred<font color="#CCCCCC"> percent of available</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> air assets</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Israeli Air</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Force can conduct</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> almost</font> no<font color="#CCCCCC"> other tasks</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> while they are destroying</font> the Egyptian Air Force just a handful of <font color="#CCCCCC">Fighters</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would be left behind to protect</font> Israeli territory<font color="#E5E5E5"> a big risk but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reckless gamble if the Israeli Air Force</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">could achieve a near absolute air</font> supremacy<font color="#E5E5E5"> enabling almost complete</font> freedom<font color="#E5E5E5"> of action by the Israeli Armed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Forces</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that's a big payoff in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mid-1960s yellow</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shavit was one of the</font> leading pilots in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> IAF</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he would train</font> many of the pilots<font color="#E5E5E5"> who would carry out</font> this<font color="#CCCCCC"> operation in dis quadrants</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had</font> the photographs of most of our targets each pilot had<font color="#CCCCCC"> to learn and remember by</font> heart<font color="#E5E5E5"> the direction of the runways the</font> amount of runways the control<font color="#E5E5E5"> tower</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">storage of bombs all the targets in the</font> base for more<font color="#E5E5E5"> than two years</font> the Israelis practiced this operation codenamed<font color="#CCCCCC"> maakad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> meaning focus ground</font> crews competed with each<font color="#E5E5E5"> other to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> see</font> who could<font color="#E5E5E5"> turn</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> around a fighter fastest</font> pilots bombed<font color="#E5E5E5"> dummy air bases modeled on</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the layout of the real targets</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and were</font> constantly tested on their ability<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">memorize every detail of their mission</font> in the head to concentrate in<font color="#E5E5E5"> one target</font> and they knew<font color="#E5E5E5"> it by heart</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you wake them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">up in the middle of the night</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they knew</font> what what target<font color="#E5E5E5"> they're going to bomb</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">preparations for war on the Arab side</font> progressed<font color="#E5E5E5"> at a different pace the army</font> was always used as a tool to maintain stability<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> country and and against</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the political opponents it was not</font> really<font color="#E5E5E5"> preparing itself</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for any</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of</font> serious<font color="#E5E5E5"> confrontation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with Israel</font> despite<font color="#E5E5E5"> this less intense preparation on</font> Sunday May<font color="#E5E5E5"> 14 1967</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">made its move president NASA</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> deployed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his troops in the Sinai desert and then</font> closed the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Straits of Tiran</font> Israel's access to the Red Sea was cut the Middle East<font color="#E5E5E5"> was on the brink of war</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they thought this is it this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">confrontation that we've been waiting</font> for for<font color="#CCCCCC"> years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> responded by</font> mobilizing<font color="#E5E5E5"> its reserve army but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by</font> Saturday<font color="#E5E5E5"> June 3rd still no attack had</font> been launched<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli news media was</font> reporting<font color="#E5E5E5"> that many soldiers had been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sent home for the weekend you don't send</font> people home like a day or two before a war<font color="#E5E5E5"> what is</font> this they have to<font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> know to train</font> themselves they have to<font color="#CCCCCC"> be there you</font> cannot allow yourself<font color="#E5E5E5"> releasing them for</font> the weekend<font color="#E5E5E5"> when you blend the wall to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the beginning of the week was Israel</font> dropping its guard<font color="#E5E5E5"> for head operation</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Moke had been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shelved which side would</font> fire the<font color="#E5E5E5"> first shots of war</font> [Music] on the morning<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Monday June 5th 1967</font> Israel fired the first shots<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what</font> would<font color="#E5E5E5"> be the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> six-day war</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Egypt was hit</font> by a massive<font color="#CCCCCC"> pre-emptive air</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> strike</font> squadrons of Israeli jet fighters <font color="#E5E5E5">swooped down on Egyptian air bases each</font> one in the formation<font color="#CCCCCC"> knew exactly where</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to aim and where the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bombs should hit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and luckily</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> enough this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 5th of June</font> there<font color="#CCCCCC"> was no wind whatsoever</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so ever you</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">end</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the bombs went this way</font> we had to hold<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> airplane up in order</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to gain altitude around eight to nine</font> thousand<font color="#E5E5E5"> feet and then we dived over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">target and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> released the bombs</font> the first target for<font color="#CCCCCC"> severs Mirage</font> fighter jet was beer<font color="#CCCCCC"> tamada airfield in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Sinai camped alongside the airfield</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> asam</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Tara's a captain in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Egyptian 4th Armored Division when</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">heard this strange</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hard</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sound four</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jets</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I went and I get out the tent without my</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">shoes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I looked and it was Mirage</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mirage the Egyptian Air Force was caught</font> cold in the first wave of<font color="#E5E5E5"> attacks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the 11</font> air bases were obliterated<font color="#E5E5E5"> all the</font> Egyptian aircraft<font color="#E5E5E5"> destroyed and no no</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">one aircraft could make the puff because</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">runways destroyed the Israeli plan of</font> targeting runways first had worked perfectly<font color="#E5E5E5"> unable</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to take off</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian</font> aircraft<font color="#E5E5E5"> were sitting ducks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I would say</font> the success was beyond<font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thoughts</font> beyond what we expected<font color="#CCCCCC"> how had the</font> Egyptians been caught so unaware<font color="#E5E5E5"> just</font> two days<font color="#E5E5E5"> before the Israelis had</font> appeared<font color="#E5E5E5"> to be coming off</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the high state</font> of alert<font color="#E5E5E5"> anyone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> London can pick up</font> the Jerusalem<font color="#CCCCCC"> Post and that means</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">everyone in every Arab capital knows</font> that the Israeli army<font color="#E5E5E5"> is stood down and</font> getting a little<font color="#E5E5E5"> bit of swimming</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">practice in the decision to send Israeli</font> soldiers home for the weekend<font color="#CCCCCC"> cause the</font> Egyptians to<font color="#E5E5E5"> relax their guard you use</font> as much deception<font color="#E5E5E5"> as you can possibly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">apply so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that the Egyptians will be</font> looking elsewhere<font color="#E5E5E5"> when the blow comes</font> conventional military<font color="#E5E5E5"> planning pointed</font> to dawn being the ideal time for<font color="#CCCCCC"> an</font> attack<font color="#E5E5E5"> traditionally this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is when you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">start a war in order to use the Sun to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">be in the eyes of the defending enemy so</font> if you attack from east<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the west</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font> do it<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the morning so he has his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Sun</font> in his eyes at dawn<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Egyptian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Air Force would be</font> in a high state of alert<font color="#E5E5E5"> but not for</font> long<font color="#E5E5E5"> now you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> have a high</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dawn the</font> readiness<font color="#E5E5E5"> which is normal and then the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tension goes down people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> go to breakfast</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">things happen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shifts are changed and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this was the time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to catch them on the</font> ground<font color="#E5E5E5"> and fueled when they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> almost</font> totally vulnerable<font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> how did the</font> Israelis know what this time would actually be<font color="#CCCCCC"> to succeed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in such an</font> operation<font color="#CCCCCC"> you need three things</font> intelligence intelligence<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> intelligence intelligence<font color="#E5E5E5"> gathered and</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian Air Force routine was</font> critical the routine<font color="#E5E5E5"> of activity was</font> detected<font color="#E5E5E5"> mainly by listening to the Nets</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of communications between the planes and</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> ground and you see that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 7:45</font> is the best time to<font color="#E5E5E5"> catch the enemy not</font> organized enough against our<font color="#E5E5E5"> attack at</font> 7:45<font color="#CCCCCC"> a.m.</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> virtually the entire Egyptian</font> Air Force would<font color="#E5E5E5"> be on the ground</font> Israel exploited this weakness<font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font> the smartest decision<font color="#CCCCCC"> in preparation of</font> the 67 war<font color="#E5E5E5"> add to that the intense</font> training of<font color="#E5E5E5"> its pilots</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and Israel was</font> able<font color="#CCCCCC"> to quickly gain the upper hand when</font> you almost<font color="#E5E5E5"> everything which was going on</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the other side where was the real</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">aircraft parking where were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dummies</font> parking where are the<font color="#CCCCCC"> munition</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> storage</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">where</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are the bomb storages we knew</font> everything intelligence had<font color="#E5E5E5"> revealed</font> when and where the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Egyptian Air Force</font> was most vulnerable<font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> how did pilots</font> like yellow<font color="#E5E5E5"> Chevy and Dan severe avoid</font> being<font color="#CCCCCC"> detected by</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Arab early warning</font> stations<font color="#E5E5E5"> we needed to fly below</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> radar coverage<font color="#CCCCCC"> and no communication or</font> radio no nothing silence<font color="#E5E5E5"> total silence you the aircraft</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the ground flying like crazy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">disraeli aircraft</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> approached</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Egypt</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">flying fast and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> below over the</font> Mediterranean<font color="#CCCCCC"> 500</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> miles per</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hour</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at an</font> altitude of<font color="#E5E5E5"> just below 100 feet</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> see far</font> not cautious<font color="#CCCCCC"> you get very close to the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">waters 11 and this is very very</font> dangerous<font color="#E5E5E5"> there is nothing in the world</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">beside</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you watching</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the horizon watching</font> the direction and that's all<font color="#E5E5E5"> all your</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">muscles are stressed you are in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> total</font> concentration<font color="#CCCCCC"> and you don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> look around</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">when you do this or that that's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> mistake<font color="#E5E5E5"> you might in the split of a</font> second touch the water<font color="#CCCCCC"> and once you</font> touch the<font color="#CCCCCC"> water this was it now you go</font> these calculated risks and elaborate deceptions<font color="#CCCCCC"> paid off the vital element of</font> surprise have been kept intact<font color="#CCCCCC"> until the</font> very last<font color="#E5E5E5"> moment Savita approached his</font> target<font color="#E5E5E5"> flying a super</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mystere fighter we</font> are standing in<font color="#CCCCCC"> front of the large air</font> intake of the super mr.<font color="#CCCCCC"> b2 which this</font> huge<font color="#E5E5E5"> intake was required to suck a lot</font> of air into the engine when he operated the afterburner<font color="#E5E5E5"> and this is the gun</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sight camera no cheating anymore</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font> was it<font color="#E5E5E5"> whenever you push the trigger the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">camera took the picture</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and this came</font> back to the debriefings<font color="#E5E5E5"> the recent</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">addition of the gun</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> side camera</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> men Air</font> Force commanders could rapidly evaluate just<font color="#E5E5E5"> how successful the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> first wave of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">attacks had been</font> dance of eras pilots logbook reveals that he would<font color="#CCCCCC"> fire further two missions</font> that day many pilots<font color="#E5E5E5"> would complete five</font> by nightfall<font color="#E5E5E5"> on June 5th in less than 12</font> hours<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Egyptian Air Force was</font> virtually wiped<font color="#CCCCCC"> out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it ended up losing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">85% of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian Air Force and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> meant<font color="#CCCCCC"> practically that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you had no air</font> cover<font color="#E5E5E5"> and that all your ground troops</font> are bare in the desert<font color="#CCCCCC"> so the Israelis</font> are<font color="#E5E5E5"> absolutely staggered by their</font> success<font color="#E5E5E5"> they hoped they could disable</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> egyptian air force</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and at the end of</font> the day they had<font color="#E5E5E5"> destroyed it on top</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that hammer blows have been dealt to the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">air forces of both Syria and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Jordan</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel had achieved air superiority</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">their ground forces could now take</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">center stage</font> the focus of operations would<font color="#E5E5E5"> be the</font> Sinai desert<font color="#E5E5E5"> where the borders of Egypt</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and Israel meet a vast expanse of</font> difficult terrain<font color="#E5E5E5"> much of it impassable</font> sand dunes the Egyptians had constructed formidable defenses in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Sinai a</font> head-on<font color="#E5E5E5"> clash would have been</font> potentially<font color="#CCCCCC"> disastrous for the Israelis</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">how could they find</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> way of overcoming</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">both the Sinai's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> terrain and the</font> Egyptian fortifications<font color="#E5E5E5"> many Mickelson</font> has investigated<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel strategy today</font> you have to penetrate<font color="#CCCCCC"> in between their</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">strongholds and to reach the rail in</font> their flanks<font color="#E5E5E5"> if the Egyptians could be</font> struck swiftly and from an unexpected <font color="#E5E5E5">direction then Israel could penetrate</font> deep<font color="#E5E5E5"> into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> enemy territory but the Sinai</font> desert<font color="#CCCCCC"> soft sand dunes presented a</font> serious<font color="#CCCCCC"> obstacle for wheeled vehicles</font> yet the Israelis were able<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> advance</font> relatively easily in the early 1960s<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Israelis</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have</font> conducted the experiments<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their own</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">desert than they gave this demonstration</font> shows<font color="#E5E5E5"> the kind of tests that would have</font> taken<font color="#CCCCCC"> place</font> soldiers practice driving<font color="#E5E5E5"> vehicles</font> through soft dunes<font color="#E5E5E5"> when they got bogged</font> down<font color="#E5E5E5"> they had to learn how to get</font> themselves out [Music] the problem is that<font color="#CCCCCC"> because</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they are</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">using wheels the contact between the</font> wheel<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the terrain is relatively</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font> you have to decrease<font color="#CCCCCC"> into the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tires in</font> order<font color="#E5E5E5"> to have more contact between the</font> wheel and<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ground letting air out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> jeeps tires</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> gives the wheels more</font> traction<font color="#CCCCCC"> and allows the vehicle to gain</font> enough momentum<font color="#E5E5E5"> to get moving again</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> simple but ingenious solution the result was that the Israelis could<font color="#E5E5E5"> advance</font> through areas that the Egyptians least expected but sand<font color="#E5E5E5"> wasn't the only</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">obstacle waiting for the Israelis in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> Sinai [Music] this Egyptian tank was<font color="#CCCCCC"> state-of-the-art</font> technology in 1967<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's typical of the</font> fearsome weaponry<font color="#E5E5E5"> that faced the</font> Israelis<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Sinai desert within the</font> space of<font color="#E5E5E5"> 48 hours hundreds of these</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tanks would be knocked out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by Israel's</font> much smaller<font color="#E5E5E5"> forces how was such an</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">unlikely victory achieved each Israeli</font> division<font color="#E5E5E5"> that goes into the Sinai</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> phases</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">two Egyptian divisions behind those two</font> Egyptian divisions is one more<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reserve division so that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> means the</font> Israeli divisions are fighting with a three to one<font color="#E5E5E5"> disadvantage</font> in any staff<font color="#E5E5E5"> college in the world</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they'll tell</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you do not attack with less</font> than a<font color="#E5E5E5"> three to one advantage</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> overcoming</font> such odds<font color="#E5E5E5"> would mean tackling the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Sinai's intimidating terrain</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tanks may</font> appear as though they can<font color="#CCCCCC"> go anywhere in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">any terrain but there's a limit to the</font> steepness of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the slopes they can climb</font> if the<font color="#E5E5E5"> duel is more than 20</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> degrees on</font> the climbing slope so all the tanks and APCs<font color="#CCCCCC"> cannot climb the deal</font> the Egyptians knew that in the Sinai there were dunes that<font color="#E5E5E5"> were just too</font> steep<font color="#E5E5E5"> so they arranged their defenses on</font> the basis that an attack would come<font color="#E5E5E5"> down</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fuel roads through the desert</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Benny Mickelson has</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> discovered documents</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that reveal how Israel would turn this</font> unfavorable<font color="#CCCCCC"> position to their advantage</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the purpose of the terrain analysis was</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> find roots of advance in such a way</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> we can bypass and attack the enemy</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">from the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> direction</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not expected</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mickelson has found a traffic ability</font> map a map<font color="#CCCCCC"> that shows exactly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> where</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">vehicles could and could not travel the</font> traffic ability map<font color="#E5E5E5"> is a final product</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> many years of research</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the important</font> detail<font color="#CCCCCC"> of this unique map of the Sinai</font> is the distinctive<font color="#E5E5E5"> form of color coding</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the colors are very very</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> simple the</font> white color<font color="#CCCCCC"> is difficult</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the dark color</font> is<font color="#E5E5E5"> non profitable what the traffic</font> ability map reveals is that<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Sinai</font> desert<font color="#E5E5E5"> was not an insurmountable</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">obstacle there were a few key routes</font> that were<font color="#CCCCCC"> trafficking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or by military</font> vehicles<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's very funny to say it but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our deep research of Hills we</font> knew the possibility to<font color="#CCCCCC"> use the ground</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in enemy territory better than the enemy</font> itself<font color="#E5E5E5"> even knowing the best routes to</font> attack the Egyptians<font color="#E5E5E5"> one thing was</font> inevitable<font color="#E5E5E5"> it would all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> come down to a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fierce tank battle in the Sinai</font> [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">thank historian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> David Fletcher has</font> looked at the tanks the Israelis were basing their armored forces on in the early 1960s they started off<font color="#E5E5E5"> pulling</font> stuff out<font color="#CCCCCC"> of scrap yards and then</font> started buying up from you stopped<font color="#CCCCCC"> from</font> around the world<font color="#E5E5E5"> where they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> could the</font> one tank that<font color="#E5E5E5"> was widely available was</font> this late<font color="#E5E5E5"> World War</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> two model of the</font> Sherman Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> bought hundreds of them</font> by the time the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelis are putting</font> these things<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the field in large</font> numbers<font color="#E5E5E5"> they are actually dealing with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">things like the t54 and t-55</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> which</font> effectively<font color="#E5E5E5"> are the next</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> generation of</font> tank<font color="#E5E5E5"> with a far bigger and more</font> effective gun<font color="#E5E5E5"> how could the Israelis</font> take on the Russian built t54 and t-55 s with what was thought<font color="#CCCCCC"> to be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an inferior</font> tank<font color="#E5E5E5"> one thing the Sherman had proved</font> during<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Second World War</font> was its<font color="#E5E5E5"> adaptability the possibility</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> putting<font color="#E5E5E5"> an extra gun on or changing a</font> gun that sort of thing was easy<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> therefore from the Israelis point of view<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was an excellent tank to start</font> work on this is an<font color="#E5E5E5"> M 51 super Sherman</font> tank with a radical Israeli makeover we <font color="#CCCCCC">recognized the original one because we</font> upgrade the<font color="#E5E5E5"> firepower</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the protection and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mobility</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we changed the caliber from</font> the original 76 millimeter to 105<font color="#E5E5E5"> French</font> gun that it allowed us<font color="#E5E5E5"> to hit any target</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> a distance of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 1000</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> meter without any</font> correction they<font color="#E5E5E5"> even modified the tracks</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for improved desert performance we</font> increase the width<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> changed the</font> material<font color="#CCCCCC"> in such a way that it improved</font> very much<font color="#CCCCCC"> the traffic ability we can</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> see</font> also<font color="#E5E5E5"> that the protection I mean the amo</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">is completely new with the revamped</font> Sherman and modifications<font color="#E5E5E5"> to other tanks</font> in their armory<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelis calculated</font> they could take on the Egyptians<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font> Sinai<font color="#E5E5E5"> though an Israeli tank is a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> souped</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> version of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> someone else's tank</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's a</font> little bit better<font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the theory that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if</font> you're just<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> little bit better than the</font> enemy<font color="#E5E5E5"> you're gonna win within 36 hours</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the Israeli attack in the Sinai the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Egyptian</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> armoured divisions were ordered</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to</font> back many Egyptian soldiers couldn't <font color="#E5E5E5">understand this decision we felt that as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">an army as a professional we did not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fight because no chance to fight the</font> withdrawal<font color="#E5E5E5"> that took place was the worst</font> possible<font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could ever imagine if you</font> brought a military commander asked him to put<font color="#CCCCCC"> the worst</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> possible withdrawal</font> plan<font color="#E5E5E5"> nothing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have been worse than</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this during the retreat across the Sinai</font> the Egyptians suffered thousands of casualties<font color="#CCCCCC"> and lost hundreds of Tanks</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the damage was beyond any imagination</font> we never thought<font color="#CCCCCC"> that we could do</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">kind of damage these black and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> twisted</font> lumps of<font color="#CCCCCC"> metal were once a mighty</font> Egyptian division<font color="#E5E5E5"> what kind of power</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">could have inflicted such all-consuming</font> destruction there has<font color="#E5E5E5"> been speculation</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that Israel used a terrifying weapon</font> napalm napalm is nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> more than</font> petrol taken into a gel<font color="#CCCCCC"> state</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with the</font> addition of gelling agents<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> make it a</font> bit like hair gel or<font color="#E5E5E5"> grease</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> here we have</font> petrol<font color="#E5E5E5"> just in its normal state</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's</font> very very<font color="#E5E5E5"> thin liquid forms very very</font> thin droplets when<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's an explosion</font> next<font color="#E5E5E5"> to it by contrast the napalm is</font> much<font color="#CCCCCC"> denser and when if there's an</font> explosion<font color="#E5E5E5"> next</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to it it forms</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fairly</font> large dense droplets<font color="#E5E5E5"> that can be thrown</font> an awful lot further<font color="#CCCCCC"> than the pure</font> liquid<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then go and adhere</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font> targets that's the theory how do napalm and conventional gas explosives perform in practice in this <font color="#E5E5E5">experiment a container of gas will</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> detonated<font color="#E5E5E5"> firing three two one firing</font> the explosion dissipates in just a fraction<font color="#CCCCCC"> of a second</font> next the sticky napalm<font color="#E5E5E5"> firing in three</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">two one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> firing</font> a huge plume of fire<font color="#E5E5E5"> and a much greater</font> spread of flaming material<font color="#E5E5E5"> 30 seconds</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">after the explosion droplets of napalm</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">are still</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> burning</font> napalm x' greater destructive<font color="#CCCCCC"> potential</font> is clear but how would<font color="#CCCCCC"> it have been used</font> against the Egyptians in the Sinai on Wednesday June the 7th Egypt's <font color="#CCCCCC">armoured divisions were retreating west</font> towards<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Suez Canal their routes took</font> them through<font color="#CCCCCC"> three mountain passes in</font> that state<font color="#CCCCCC"> of panic they were all</font> trapped in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the three passes in the Sinai</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and became a sitting duck for the</font> Israeli Air Force<font color="#E5E5E5"> complete air</font> superiority would mean that yellow <font color="#CCCCCC">Shahid squadron could strike the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Egyptians at will he can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> confirm that</font> napalm bombs were<font color="#E5E5E5"> used and to</font> devastating effect<font color="#CCCCCC"> then a plan is a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very</font> cruel<font color="#CCCCCC"> very very unpleasant like</font> [Music] suddenly<font color="#E5E5E5"> Assam to rise was one of the</font> Egyptian soldiers on the ground<font color="#E5E5E5"> who</font> witnessed the terrifying napalm attack all<font color="#E5E5E5"> the sky was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very color black</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and red</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">it is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very difficult to explain and then</font> you feel<font color="#E5E5E5"> the wah of the fire that came</font> up it's<font color="#E5E5E5"> frightened a given to think about</font> it now<font color="#E5E5E5"> because the tank was caught in</font> fire and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the black and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the black smoke</font> like like<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> chimney sucks the smoke</font> up into the sky<font color="#CCCCCC"> stairwell</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hundreds of</font> Egyptian tanks and trucks were engulfed in an inferno this is film<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the horrific aftermath</font> of the<font color="#CCCCCC"> napalm airstrikes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it has never</font> been<font color="#CCCCCC"> screened before</font> yet for the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptians the nightmare of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">their Sinai retreat was not yet over</font> [Music] Wednesday June<font color="#CCCCCC"> 7th 1967 the Six Day War</font> was barely two days old<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the Egyptian</font> army was disintegrating in the Sinai desert<font color="#E5E5E5"> yet even in the searing heat</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> early June<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israeli advance showed no</font> sign of letting up<font color="#E5E5E5"> how could two armies</font> both<font color="#E5E5E5"> used to such</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> conditions</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> perform so</font> differently these Israeli<font color="#E5E5E5"> paratroopers</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">are preparing for a training march in</font> the middle of summer<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's vital they're</font> able<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> keep going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the blistering</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">heat</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their first</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two days</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I joined</font> the army<font color="#CCCCCC"> there was a heat wave it's like</font> getting<font color="#E5E5E5"> boiled in an oven in the</font> especially<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the desert before the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">March starts the platoon medic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> checks</font> the conditions his soldiers are<font color="#CCCCCC"> going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> encounter<font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> soldiers</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are on the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> march</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they have to drink about between five to</font> six liters<font color="#E5E5E5"> before the March</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they start</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">six hours before</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and they drink every</font> hour<font color="#E5E5E5"> while later strict water drinking</font> regulations were<font color="#E5E5E5"> implemented by the</font> Israeli army<font color="#CCCCCC"> in 1959</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up until that point</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the need for soldiers to avoid</font> dehydration<font color="#E5E5E5"> was appreciated only by</font> medical officers such as<font color="#CCCCCC"> Ezra Zohar in</font> these days<font color="#CCCCCC"> the army used to issue one</font> liter of<font color="#CCCCCC"> water per day per soldier</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Sahara and a team of military medics</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">decided to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> conduct a unique experiment</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with a group of soldiers by marching the</font> entire length of Israel in August<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hottest month of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the year</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> every day they</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">covered 17 miles with hourly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rest breaks</font> to take on water<font color="#E5E5E5"> we found that the</font> person in a<font color="#E5E5E5"> very</font> if you works physically the amount of sweat can reach up to<font color="#E5E5E5"> 20</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> litres a day</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font> to make up<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it we suggested that they</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">drink one liter</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> every hour</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by the end of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> march</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the benefits of regular water</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">intake were plain to see these soldiers</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> were in excellent condition</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> said we are<font color="#E5E5E5"> ready to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> continue</font> indefinitely<font color="#CCCCCC"> the difference was the</font> drinking<font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the 1959 experiment</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our</font> me water regulations were changed<font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> liter of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> water per soldier</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> per day</font> to one liter per hour<font color="#CCCCCC"> when soldiers were</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the March</font> cases of<font color="#CCCCCC"> heatstroke and dehydration</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">virtually disappeared</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Napoleon said the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">army works on its stomach and this is</font> perhaps true in Europe in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Middle</font> East<font color="#E5E5E5"> the army works on its water when</font> war came in 1967<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelis knew that</font> ensuring water supplies<font color="#E5E5E5"> would be vital</font> this contrasted starkly<font color="#E5E5E5"> with the</font> situation in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Egyptian army</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the treating Egyptian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> army did not carry</font> much<font color="#CCCCCC"> for the visit</font> thousands of<font color="#CCCCCC"> eps even ten thousands</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Egyptian soldiers died during 1967</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">because they lost their units and they</font> were cut off<font color="#CCCCCC"> from water</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> supplies they</font> have to walk<font color="#CCCCCC"> 200 kilometres no sleep</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> no</font> food<font color="#E5E5E5"> no water</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> no medicine listen the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tumor</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's likely that in the Sinai the</font> Egyptians suffered more casualties to eat<font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 - enemy action by Friday June 9th</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Egyptians had been driven back</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">across</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Suez Canal</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">captured Jerusalem and the West Bank</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from Jordan after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 2 days of bitter</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fighting yet the Israeli and Syrian</font> army's had still not engaged<font color="#E5E5E5"> the theater</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of war</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> would now move to Israel's</font> northeast border<font color="#E5E5E5"> with Syria the Golan</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Heights</font> this mountainous area was vitally important because<font color="#E5E5E5"> it gave Syria a near</font> impregnable defensive position [Music] the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Syrian exploits the nature of the</font> Golan Heights<font color="#CCCCCC"> is very steep</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and they use</font> the slope<font color="#E5E5E5"> to build three lines of</font> fortifications<font color="#CCCCCC"> to have any chance of</font> success against the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Syrians the Israelis</font> needed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> concentrate all their</font> available forces<font color="#E5E5E5"> the most important</font> factor there was that the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelis had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">already</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> finished with both the Egyptian</font> and the Jordanian fronts and they had <font color="#E5E5E5">diverted all their power to the Syrian</font> front this rusting shell splintered <font color="#E5E5E5">half-track testifies to the bloody</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">struggle that occurred here</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but by</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Saturday June 10th</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel had taken the</font> Golan Heights<font color="#CCCCCC"> much of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that success came</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">down to the Israelis ability to hit</font> concealed<font color="#E5E5E5"> Syrian artillery positions how</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">did they know where to strike</font> the answer lies<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> extraordinary</font> story<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ellie Cohen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel's most</font> famous spy<font color="#E5E5E5"> in 1961 Cohen's brothers</font> Abraham and Morris<font color="#E5E5E5"> were kept in the dark</font> about his real life we didn't know exactly<font color="#E5E5E5"> what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he is doing broad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but we do</font> know that<font color="#E5E5E5"> Ellie is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> doing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> something for</font> the government<font color="#CCCCCC"> Cohen was working</font> undercover in Syria for Mossad<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Israeli Secret<font color="#E5E5E5"> Service who needed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">disappear Utley</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to have somebody to work</font> for us there<font color="#E5E5E5"> to give us information</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> well</font> they will attack us and<font color="#E5E5E5"> Cohen's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">upbringing in Egypt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> helped maintain his</font> cover<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was a Jew who came from an herb</font> country and he knew<font color="#CCCCCC"> very well Arabic :</font> agent<font color="#CCCCCC"> o double 8 was known in Syria as</font> camel I mean<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tibet he became close</font> friends with general<font color="#CCCCCC"> el Hafez the</font> president<font color="#E5E5E5"> and incredibly was appointed a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">member of the country's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> High Command he</font> was given a<font color="#E5E5E5"> free hand and access</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all</font> the positions everywhere he was even escorted by military commanders to visit positions<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he had drawn detailed</font> plans so secure was his access<font color="#E5E5E5"> that he</font> was able<font color="#CCCCCC"> to pose for this photograph</font> during<font color="#E5E5E5"> a visit to the Golan</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Heights with</font> Syrian military officials<font color="#E5E5E5"> all the while</font> he<font color="#E5E5E5"> was gathering</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> valuable</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> information</font> for his real<font color="#E5E5E5"> bosses but Cohen's luck</font> would soon run<font color="#E5E5E5"> out in January 1965 he</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> caught sending</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a coded transmission</font> from his home in Damascus<font color="#CCCCCC"> I think that</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> lemon was squeezed too hard and</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> is why he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was found</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Koen was interrogated by syrian</font> intelligence<font color="#CCCCCC"> tortured and put</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on public</font> trial<font color="#CCCCCC"> I thought that the the Mossad</font> will succeed to rescue then suddenly<font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font> I said they're going<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hang him on May</font> 18th 1965<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Cohen family watched in</font> horror as<font color="#E5E5E5"> his execution</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was broadcast</font> live on Syrian television<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we lost</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> awards but what had Cohen's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">espionage actually achieved one famous</font> story recounts that<font color="#E5E5E5"> after Cohen's tour</font> of artillery positions on the Golan he made a strong<font color="#CCCCCC"> recommendation to the</font> Syrian High Command he says those guys are suffering from sunburn<font color="#E5E5E5"> and heat</font> casualties<font color="#CCCCCC"> we must do something to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">protect them from the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Sun nothing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is too</font> good<font color="#CCCCCC"> for our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> boys</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the field plant</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">trees by every artillery emplacement</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> they do they plant<font color="#CCCCCC"> trees by every Syrian</font> artillery emplacements on the Golan <font color="#CCCCCC">Heights</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Israelis</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> watch these</font> trees growing<font color="#E5E5E5"> up telling them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> exactly</font> where every Syrian artillery in place <font color="#E5E5E5">from it</font> [Music] can<font color="#CCCCCC"> this story really</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be believed 40</font> years<font color="#E5E5E5"> after Cohen's death his brothers</font> have<font color="#CCCCCC"> come</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the Golan Heights</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in search</font> of evidence<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's very exciting to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> here in the very<font color="#E5E5E5"> portlet le walk here</font> with the Syrian delegation in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the border</font> they found what<font color="#E5E5E5"> they believe was one of</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Syrian fortified positions</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their</font> brother visited<font color="#E5E5E5"> this vast complex of</font> hidden bunkers is still intact<font color="#E5E5E5"> you see</font> this is<font color="#E5E5E5"> another vodka</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is another</font> one all<font color="#E5E5E5"> around there is many bunkers</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font> see this<font color="#CCCCCC"> eclipta Street</font> yeah perhaps<font color="#E5E5E5"> le suggested to plant them</font> here as a shelter<font color="#E5E5E5"> from the Sun you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> know</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">for the Syrian soldiers</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tellingly the</font> Golan slopes in this area are virtually bared<font color="#E5E5E5"> but around the bunker complex</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">today there are many mature eucalyptus</font> trees this would suggest that<font color="#E5E5E5"> la</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Cohen</font> succeeded in helping<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelis to</font> pinpoint<font color="#E5E5E5"> Syrian artillery positions he</font> had sent to the Israeli military <font color="#E5E5E5">detailed plans of where the positions</font> are<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the number of troops there and</font> in fact they<font color="#E5E5E5"> have known almost</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">everything about the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Syrian forces</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that area</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> though Cohen died two years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">before the six-day war he undoubtedly</font> influenced its outcome yet even with<font color="#CCCCCC"> his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> invaluable</font> intelligence<font color="#E5E5E5"> much more blood would be</font> spilt<font color="#E5E5E5"> before Israel had conquered</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Golan Heights this is a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> memorial to some</font> of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israeli soldiers who were killed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">on the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> unforgiving terrain of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Golan</font> Heights<font color="#E5E5E5"> for Israel this would be the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">most difficult part</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> six-day war</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Golan</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Heights are covered with big</font> basalt boulders big volcanic boulders <font color="#CCCCCC">they're</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> naturally occurring tank traps</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">how did the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelis</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> overcome such</font> obstacles<font color="#E5E5E5"> intelligence had revealed</font> exactly<font color="#CCCCCC"> where the most difficult terrain</font> lay so a route of attack was chosen to <font color="#CCCCCC">both avoid the tank traps and surprised</font> the Syrians the concept was to<font color="#CCCCCC"> use such</font> a path to penetrate in between the Syrian positions and to attack all three lines of<font color="#E5E5E5"> defense simultaneously many</font> Israeli armored vehicles<font color="#E5E5E5"> advanced down</font> this very track but then disastrously <font color="#E5E5E5">took a wrong turning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> battalion the</font> battalion of<font color="#CCCCCC"> eight armored Brigade</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lose</font> from 26 tank 24 tanks they had<font color="#E5E5E5"> 13 killed in action and about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">40 flee</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they wounded after four days of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">astonishing success the war was now</font> proving very<font color="#CCCCCC"> costly for Israel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the most difficult objectives was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Telfair</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bunker</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a bewilder in complex</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> concrete covered trenches bristling with <font color="#E5E5E5">heavily armed Syrian soldiers determined</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to hold out how did the Israelis</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> managed</font> to take such a strong defensive<font color="#E5E5E5"> position</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a particular kind</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of weapon would come</font> to the fore<font color="#CCCCCC"> the submachine gun was one</font> of the all-round useful weapons the Second World War<font color="#CCCCCC"> it provides a lot of</font> firepower in close quarters<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> sometimes<font color="#E5E5E5"> that's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just what you need</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font> impressed were the Israelis with this weapon<font color="#CCCCCC"> that they invented</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their own</font> version the Uzi<font color="#CCCCCC"> 9-millimeter in the telfa hero</font> bunker<font color="#E5E5E5"> this submachine gun would come up</font> against the legendary Kalashnikov<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> ak-47<font color="#E5E5E5"> both of them will fire round about</font> 600 rounds a minute<font color="#E5E5E5"> she's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 a second</font> both of them will hold<font color="#E5E5E5"> anything between</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">20 to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 30</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rounds</font> how do these weapons compare in an accuracy<font color="#E5E5E5"> test McIntyre is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> firing at a</font> target<font color="#CCCCCC"> 50 meters away five shots</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> each gun all<font color="#E5E5E5"> the rounds hit the target</font> but only the ak-47<font color="#CCCCCC"> gets close to the</font> center of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the black the a.k has the</font> advantage<font color="#CCCCCC"> that you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> can hit the target</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font> a much longer range and the ballistics are still lethal<font color="#E5E5E5"> at those ranges the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">nine-millimeter really</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fall sort of that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and wouldn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be lethal at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> anything more</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">than 100</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> meters</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> close-up</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fight at Telfer here bunker</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> long-range</font> accuracy<font color="#CCCCCC"> was not the deciding factor</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> was smooth handling<font color="#E5E5E5"> in a tight space</font> that was more important so how do these <font color="#CCCCCC">two weapons</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> compare in a trench combat</font> test first the Uzi [Music] it's easy to use<font color="#E5E5E5"> and quick to reload</font> [Music] and then the ak-47 it's powerful<font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">slower to bring to bear than the Uzi and</font> reloading is not the<font color="#E5E5E5"> same smooth process</font> [Music] in this test<font color="#E5E5E5"> it even jams</font> [Music] the user is much better in confined spaces<font color="#CCCCCC"> much more pointable this is much</font> more<font color="#E5E5E5"> like the traditional rifle the a K</font> requires much<font color="#E5E5E5"> longer physical stance</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">whereas the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> usual can</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be used much</font> easier<font color="#E5E5E5"> close into the body</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ergonomics the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> easier much better</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it has</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this design</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where hand naturally finds</font> hand in case<font color="#CCCCCC"> of magazine chains that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">process a lot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> more complicated</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> than the</font> a K because there was a lever<font color="#E5E5E5"> here just</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">be pushed forward magazine has to come</font> out<font color="#CCCCCC"> very awkward action it's far less</font> intuitive<font color="#E5E5E5"> to change the magazine on this</font> than it would on<font color="#CCCCCC"> easy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's a small</font> weapon it's a handy weapon<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the close</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">quarters of a trench</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when turning around</font> with some great big long accurate rifle is<font color="#E5E5E5"> not an option who's he's a nice</font> little fella to have with you inside the telephone<font color="#CCCCCC"> here bunker</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and many others</font> like<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Golan the is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> II could</font> have<font color="#E5E5E5"> been the factor that gave the</font> Israelis the<font color="#CCCCCC"> edge by</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the morning of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Saturday June 10th the Syrians had been</font> finally driven<font color="#E5E5E5"> from their bunkers on the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Golan Heights</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and were retreating to</font> Damascus<font color="#E5E5E5"> the six-day</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> war was over in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">less than a week Israel had defeated</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">first Egypt then Jordan and finally</font> Syria<font color="#E5E5E5"> but was this really Israel's</font> brilliant<font color="#CCCCCC"> military triumph</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or were</font> critical mistakes by the Arab countries <font color="#CCCCCC">decisive</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they didn't succeed to</font> concentrate their forces all together against Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> before each one hello</font> couldn't make<font color="#E5E5E5"> a real coalition and</font> attack us<font color="#E5E5E5"> all together though the Arab</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">countries failed to combine their forces</font> effectively<font color="#E5E5E5"> many soldiers</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the</font> Egyptian army believed to this day that <font color="#E5E5E5">they were not given the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> chance to do</font> themselves justice in battle is a <font color="#CCCCCC">roasters award but they not defeated</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because they felt we did not fight</font> because<font color="#E5E5E5"> no chance to fight</font> but this was<font color="#E5E5E5"> an historic victory for</font> Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> never in the history of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Wars</font> of Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> so many people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> achieved such a</font> huge victory<font color="#CCCCCC"> in such a short</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where</font> the plan it<font color="#E5E5E5"> was worked in detailed it</font> was properly<font color="#E5E5E5"> trained for and it was</font> superbly<font color="#E5E5E5"> carried out with a lot of luck</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with a lot of luck years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of training</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">planning and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> intelligence</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gathering</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">meant that Israel was able</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to minimize</font> factors that were left<font color="#E5E5E5"> to chance</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">decisive factor was executing the plan</font> to the letter based on strictly<font color="#CCCCCC"> military measures</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">nothing to do with politics and delux</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">let politicians intervene</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Egyptian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> officer who said early</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> war<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Israelis prepared for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this war</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we prepared for parades through the</font> streets of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Cairo in 1967 his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rule</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> ready <font color="#CCCCCC">gene Kranz</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his flight controllers were</font> only<font color="#E5E5E5"> in their 20s when they took on one</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the boldest issues in human history</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">placing a man on the moon failure is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">an option tomorrow night at 8:00</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> History Channel<font color="#E5E5E5"> even astronauts have</font> heroes [Music]
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Channel: Joseph Wouk
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Keywords: israel, syria, jordan, iraq, iaf, air force, victory, egypt, six day, 1967
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Length: 45min 43sec (2743 seconds)
Published: Mon Apr 29 2019
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