At 2.05 hour at noon of the sixth of October 1973, 220 Egyptian aircrafts crossed Suez Canal at low height to bombard Israeli targets in Sinai. This strike achieved its target successfully and Egypt lost 11 aircrafts only, one of them was for Atef Al Sadat, brother of the late president Anwar Al Sadat. Along with the air strike, 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 days. 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 To be continued.........
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