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A-4 Skyhawk

By Shlomo Aloni , Jim Laurier

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2009
ISBN
9781846034305, 1846034302
LCC
UG1242.A28 A437 2009
Open Library ID
OL24037839M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31096983 bytes)
Series
Combat Aircraft
Edition
First Printed
Pages
198\198
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The light and agile A-4 Skyhawk was the first modern American jet to be offered to the Israeli Air Force, marking the point where the US took over from France as Israel's chief military supplier. Deliveries began too late for the A-4 to fight in the Six-Day War, but it soon formed the backbone of the IAF's ground-attack force. From 1969 to 1970 it flew endless sorties against Egyptian forces in the War of Attrition. Then, during the Yom Kippur War, five squadrons of A-4s saw combat and 50 planes were lost as they battled against the Arab armored onslaught. Using previously unpublished first-hand accounts and rare photography from the IAF archives and pilots' private collections, Shlomo Aloni tells the definitive history of the IAF's A-4 squadrons, including the story of Ezra "BABAN" Dotan who became an ace with an unique double-kill of MiG17s.

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