Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority - Air Force ...

THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE
38. Trevor Dupuy, Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974 (New York, 1978),
p 180.
39. Marshall, Sinai Victory, p 261.
40. Dayan, Diary of the Sinai Campaign, p 109.
41. Murray Rubinstein and Richard Goldman, The Israeli Air Force Story (London,
1979). pp 96-7.
42. Spick, Fighter Pilot Tactics, p 149.
43. Ibid., pp 142 and 147; Bill Gunston, An Illustrated Guide to the Israeli Air Force
(New York, 1982), pp 86-9.
44. M. J. Armitage and R. A. Mason, Air Power in the Nuclear Age (Urbana, Ill., 1983),
p 269.
45. Dupuy, Elusive Victory, p 238.
46. Edgar OBallance, The Third Arab-Israeli War, 1967 (Hamden, Conn, 1972).
47. See J. W. R. Taylor, Combat Aircraft of the World (New York, 1969).
48. O’Ballance, Third Arab-Israeli War, pp 57-8.
49. Intvw with Col Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto, Chief of Operational Planning and Requirements,
1963-66, taped in Tel Aviv, Jan 14, 1984. The concept was Israeli, the design and
construction, French.
50. Hod lntvw.
5 1. Ibid.
52. Ibid.
53. Dupuy, Exlusive Victory, pp 265-69.
54. Quoted in R. Bondy, 0. Zmorz and R. Bashan (eds), Mission Survival (New York,
1968). p 156.
55. R. S. Churchill and W. S. Churchill, The Six Day War (London, 1967). p 80.
56. Ibid.. p81.
57. Chel Ha’Avir Press Conference, Jun 7, 1967, quoted in Bondy, Zmora and Bashan,
Misson Survival, pp 157-58.
58. Avrihu Ben-Nun, “Three Hours in June,” videotape at US Army Command and Staff
College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, cited in Major C. E. Olschner, “The Air Superiority
Battle in the Middle East, 1967-1973,” Unpublished thesis at U.S. Army Command and Staff
College, June 1978, p 17.
59. Bondy, Zmora and Bashan, Mission Survival, p 140.
60. Ibid.. pp 155-56.
61. Mark Lambert, “How Good is the MiG-21?” in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings,
Jan 1976, p 100.
62. Bondy, Zmora and Bashan, Mission Survival, p 142.
63. Lambert, “How Good is the MiG-21?”
64. Bondy, Zmora and Bashan, Mission Survival, p 142.
65. Ibid.
66. Hussein of Jordan, My “War” With Israel, (New York, 1969), p 74.
67. Bondy, Zmora and Bashan, Mission Survival, p 160.
68. Aviation Week and Space Technology, Jul3, 1967, p 18.
69. O’Ballance, Third Arab-Israeli War, p 82.
70. Zeev Schiff, October Earthquake: Yom Kippur 1973 (Tel Aviv, 1974), p 263.
71. See F. W. Lanchester, Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the Fourth Arm (London,
1916), Chap V.
72. Edgar O’Ballance, The Electronic War in the Middle East, 1968-1970 (Hamden,
Conn, 1974). pp 69.85.
73. Lt Gen Saad el Shazli, The Crossing of the Suez (San Francisco, 1980). p 20.
74. Tsiddon-Chatto intvw.
75. Taylor, Combat Aircraft.
76. lntvw with Maj Gen Benjamin Peled, commander of Chel Ha’Avir 1968-74, Tel Aviv,
Jan 13, 1984.
77. Jacob Neufeld, “Israel builds an Air Force,” May 1982, unpublished paper in Office
of Air Force History, p 9.
78. Quoted in Spick, Fighter Pilot Tactics, p 147.
79. Ibid., pp 147-48.
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