Photos Yom Kippur War

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‘This picture is significant only because it was taken in the normally ultra-secret war room of southern command during the most critical hours of the Yom Kippur war. The army’s top generals face their maps, and so do I with my camera. I had simply walked in. No one stopped me or even asked me any questions. Everything was in disarray. The most secret maps were on the board and I was shooting pictures. It was frightening. This, essentially, was the war where the generals fought each other and the battles were won by the non-coms’
Photograph: David Rubinger

 

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Egyptian T-62 tank with uncommon white 'invasion stripes‘ on the fenders

 

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Israeli Magach tank after being hit by multiple AT-3 Sagger (aka 9M14 Malyutka) missiles

 

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Battle of Chinese Farm.



Egyptian soldier in Bar-Lev line.



Egyptian T-62 MBT and her crew.



Egyptian soldier guarding a position while Egyptian units crossing of Suez Canal.



Egyptian resistance members demonstrating captured Israeli weaponary.

 

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Israeli M48 'Magach3' in the outskirts of Ismailiya, Egypt. October 1973

 

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A comment on this picture, which has been posted several times in this thread:

This is an IDF Centurion of hativa 143 crossing the canal on the IMI 2TFR bridge, the winning move.
But!!!

The Shot is not rolling on the 2TFR deck. It is rolling on an AVLB span laid on top of a breach in the 2TFR.

The story is that the engineers built a 2TFR bridge completely spanning the canal, and Egyptians kept desperately trying to destroy it by all means. Their artillery several times succeeded in hitting the bridge, and the IDF Engineers kept replacing the sunken elements.
At one point they ran out of spare elements and there was a final gap they could no longer patch. Rather than let the critical logistics become interrupted, a Magach Tagash (M60 AVLB) was brought in and ordered to lay its span to plug that last hole.

Here is a wider photo of the patched bridge, seen from the shore.

Of course this is NOT kosher in any manual! But hey, as they say necessity is the mother of invention. And it worked.

What is the secret weapon behind IDF success? D E T E R M I N A T I O N
(it helps that there isn't really a choice)

 

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Israeli Centurion tanks attacking on the Golan

 

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Israeli armour preparing for an attack in the Sinai, October 8th, 1973.

 

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Captured Egyptian 180mm gun, later used against Syrians in the Golan Heights.

 

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Destroyed and abandoned Syrian T-55 tanks during the "Valley of Tears" battle, Yom kippur war, October 1973

 

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M-51 Super Shermans advancing on a road in the Sinai Desert

 

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Egyptian forces cross the Suez Canal on Oct. 7, 1973

 

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Israeli M3 Mk. with 120mm mortar

Israeli encirclement of Egyptian 3rd Army

 

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Israeli artillery fires on Syrian positions

Israeli Super Shermans and Centurion Sho't in the Sinai

Centurion Sho't move through the Sinai

 

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Egyptian T-55

 

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Centurion Sho't

M48A3 Magach 3 in the Sinai

 

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Egyptian special forces taken as POW in the west side of the Suez canal

Egyptian BTR 50 in the sweet water canal in the west side of the Suez canal

Egyptian truck in the sweet water canal west to the Suez canal

 

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Israeli M113

 

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Abandoned Syrian SU-100M and T-54 tanks on Golan Heights

Syrian T-62 on the Golan

Syrian T-55

 

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Israeli M548 tracked cargo carrier

M107 Romach 175mm SPH near Ismailia