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Yum Kippur War



The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים‎ Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור Milẖemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر‎ ḥarb ʾUktōbar or حرب تشرين ḥarb Tišrīn), also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The war began when the coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which coincided with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights respectively, which had been captured and occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War. The conflict led to a near-confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union,[25] both of whom initiated massive resupply efforts to their allies during the war.
The war began with a massive and successful Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal during the first three days, after which they dug in, settling into a stalemate. The Syrians coordinated their attack on the Golan Heights to coincide with the Egyptian offensive and initially made threatening gains against the greatly outnumbered Israelis. Within a week, Israel recovered and launched a four-day counter-offensive, driving deep into Syria. To relieve this pressure, the Egyptians went back on the offensive, but were decisively defeated; the Israelis then counterattacked at the seam between two Egyptian armies, crossed the Suez Canal, and advanced southward and westward in over a week of heavy fighting. An October 22 United Nations-brokered ceasefire quickly unraveled, with each side blaming the other for the breach. By 24 October, the Israelis had improved their positions considerably and completed their encirclement of Egypt's Third Army. This development led to tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. As a result, a second ceasefire was imposed cooperatively on October 25 to end the war. At the conclusion of hostilities, Israeli forces were 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Damascus and 101 kilometres (63 mi) from Cairo.
The war had far-reaching implications. The Arab World, which had been humiliated by the lopsided rout of the Egyptian-Syrian-Jordanian alliance in the Six-Day War, felt psychologically vindicated by early successes in the conflict. In Israel, despite impressive operational and tactical achievements on the battlefield, the war effectively ended its sense of invincibility and complacency. The war also challenged many American assumptions; the United States initiated new efforts at mediation and peacemaking. These changes paved the way for the subsequent peace process. The Camp David Accords that followed led to the return of the Sinai to Egypt and normalized relations—the first peaceful recognition of Israel by an Arab country. Egypt continued its drift away from the Soviet Union and left the Soviet sphere of influence entirely.

Date: October 6–October 24, 1973
Location: Sinai, Golan Heights, and surrounding regions of the Middle East
Result: Ended by a United Nations cease-fire

Israel:
Strength:
415,000 troops; 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored carriers; 945 artillery units 100 mm and up; 561 airplanes, 84 helicopters; 38 battleships.

Casualties:
2,656 killed, 7,250 wounded, 400 tanks destroyed,
600 damaged/returned to service, 102 planes shot down
(Rabinovich, 496–497)

Egypt, Syria, (Jordan, Iraq):
Strength:
Egypt: 830,000 troops; 2,200 tanks, 2,400 armored carriers; 1,120 artillery units 100 mm and up; 690 airplanes, 161 helicopters; 104 battleships
Syria: 332,000 troops; 1,350 tanks, 1,300 armored carriers; 655 artillery units 100 mm and up; 321 airplane, 36 helicopters; 21 battleships
Iraq: 20,000 troops, 310 tanks, 300 armored carriers, 54 artillery units, 73 airplanes)

Casualties:
8,528 killed
19,540 wounded
(Western analysis)
15,000 dead
35,000 wounded
(Israeli analysis)
2,250 tanks destroyed or captured
432 planes destroyed
(Rabinovich, 496–497)

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RESERVISTS ASSEMBLING AT AN ARMY BASE IN THE NORTH AFTER CALL-UP ON YOM KIPPUR



ISRAELI ARMOUR RUSHING UP TO THE NORTHERN FRONTIER WITH THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR.



AN ISRAELI TANK-UNIT FORMING FOR A COUNTER-ATTACK AGAINST SYRIAN ARMOUR ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAELI TANKS MOVING INTO POSITIONS FOR A COUNTER-ATTACK ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAELI INFANTRY AIR COVER MOVING INTO FORWARD BATTLE-ZONE ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


SRAELI TROOPS TAKING COVER FROM SYRIAN PLANES STRAFING THE ROAD ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAELI CONVOY MOVING NORTHWARDS PAST A DESTROYED SYRIAN TANK ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.



ISRAELI CENTURIONS COUNTER ATTACKING SYRIAN INVADERS ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAELI TANKS IN BATTLE AGAINST THE SYRIAN ARMOUR ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAELI OFFICERS QUESTIONING A SYRIAN PRISONER ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAELI ARMOUR MOVING THROUGH THE BROKEN SYRIAN LINES IN THR NORTH.


A SIKORSKY CH 53 RESCUING A DAMAGED BELL 205 HELICOPTER ON THE SYRIAN FRONT.


MEMBERS OF THE ENGINEERING CORPS REPAIRING A DAMAGED TANK NEAR THE FRONTLINE ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


LONG-RANGE 175 MM ARTILLERY IN ACTION ON THE SYRIAN FRONT.


ON OF THE LONG RANGE 203 MM CANONS FIRING AT MILITARY TARGETS ON THE SYRIAN FRONT.


AN ISRAELI SOLDIER POINTING AT THE WRECKAGE OF FA SYRIAN PLANE SHOT DOWN IN THE KUNEITRA AREA.


SYRIAN T55 AND T54 TANKS KNOCKED OUT OF ACTION ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


THE TAIL PORTION OF A SAM 6 MISSILE ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.

DESTROYED SYRIAN ARMOUR COMPOSED OF T62 TANKS AND ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND BY THE RETREATING SYRIAN ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS


REMNANTS OF A DESTROYED CONVOY OF ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAEL SOLDIERS RECOVERING A SYRIAN T62 TANK ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


RUSSIAN - MADE SYRIAN HOWITZERS CAPTURED ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


THE HERMON FORTRESS (MUTZAV HA- HERMON) RECAPTURE BY ISRAEL TROOPS.


ISRAELI ARMOUR MOVING ACROSS THE SYRIAN LINES ON THE KUNEITRA-DAMASCUS ROAD.


ISRAELI SOLDIERS QUENCHING THE THIRST OF AN OLD ARAB WOMAN IN ONE OF THE ABANDONED SYRIAN VILLAGES NEAR THE FRONTLINE.


ENTERTAINERS PLAYING FOR SOLDIERS ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


AN ARMOURED UNIT STARTING OUT AT DAWN IN SINAI.


ISRAELI ARMOUR BOMBARDING THE BRIDGES IN TSHE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF THE SUEZ CANAL.


ISRAELI ARMOUR ADVANCING UNDER AIR COVER DURING THE BATTLE FOR THE BREAKTHROUGH ACROSS THE SUEZ CANAL.


AN EGYPTIAN MIG IN FLAMES OVER THE BATTLE-FRONT ON THE WEST BANK OF THE SUEZ CANAL.


MIG 21 IN THE SUEZ CANAL AREA.


HIT EGYPTIAN MIG 21 DIVING TOWARDS THE GROUND IN THE SUEZ CANAL AREA.


THE EGYPTIAN MIG 21 EXPLODING ON THE GROUND.


THE EGYPTINA PILOT OF THE HIT MIG 21 PARACHUTING TO THE GROUND.


ISRAELI 175 MM GUNS GIVING ARTILLERY SUPPORT DURING THE CROSSING OF THE SUEZ CANAL.


A KATYUSHA BATTERY FIRING ROCKETS AGAINST EGYPTIAN POSITIONS ON THE WEST BANK OF THE CANAL.

YOM KIPPUR WAR. MEDICAL ORDERLIES EVACUATING CASUALTIES IN SINAI.


MEDICAL ORDERLIES EVACUATING CASUALTIES IN SINAI.


A SOLDIER USING HIS TEETH TO OPEN POP BOTTLES IN THE FIELD IN SOUTHERN SINAI


SOLDIER WRITING A LETTER HOME.


SOLDIERS CATCHING A FEW MINUTES OF SLEEP DURING A STOP-OVER IN SINAI.


SOLDIERS RESTING IN THE SHADE OF THEIR TROOP-CARRIER IN THE DESERT IN SINAI. 43075


DAMAGED EGYPTIAN TANKS ABANDONED IN THE DESERT IN SINAI.


AN ISRAELI DOCTOR TAKING CARE OF AN EGYPTIAN PRISONER OF WAR IN SINAI.


AN ISRAELI SOLDIER TAKING PRISONERS TO AN ENCLAVE IN SINAI.


EGYPTIAN PRISONERS OF WAR TAKEN ON AN ISRAELI BASE ON THE WEST BANK OF THE SUEZ CANAL


A SUPPLY-CONVOY CROSSING ONE OF THE BRIDGES TO THE WEST BANK OF THE SUEZ CANAL.


SYRIAN OIL-TANK EXPLODING AT LATAKIA HARBOUR AFTER BEING HIT BY ISRAELI MISSILES.


ISRAELI TROOPS DUG IN ON THE WEST BANK OF THE CANAL.


FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF HAIM BAR- LEV (LEFT) CONSULTS WITH MAJ. GEN. ARIEL SHARON (WITH BANDAGE) DURING THE YOM KIPPUR WAR.


ISRAELI PARATROOPERS MARCHING ALONG THE SUEZ-CAIRO ROAD ON THE WEST BANK.


AN ISRAELI ARMY UNIT RECOVERING SAM 3 MISSILES.


FRAGMENTS OF DESTROYED MISSILES AT AN EGYPTIAN SAM 2 BASE.


A DESTROYED RADAR MISSILE-GUIDING UNIT ON THE WEST BANK.



ISRAELI SOLDIERS LOOKING AT A SAM 2 MISSILE ON THE WEST BANK OF THE SUEZ CANAL.



ISRAELI ARMY ENGINEERS RECOVERING SAM 3 MISSILES ON THE WEST BANK OF THE SUEZ CANAL

ARMY RESERVISTS POSING AT ONE OF THE EGYPTIAN MISSILES SITES ONT THE WEST BANK OF THE SUEZ CANAL.



A SAM 2 MISSILE ON ITS PAD ON THE WEST BANK OF THE CANAL.

An egyptian half-track and two israeli M60A1 destroyed during the fightings around the egyptian bridgehead, between Ismaïlia and the Deversoire"







Destroyed M48 and M60
Israeli Sho't (Centurion)
This is one of Centurions belonging either to the 7th or 188th Israeli AB, destroyed during the savage fighting near Nafeq on Sunday, 7 October 1973
Egyptian soldiers near destroyed Israeli tanks
Destroyed american tanks of Israeli 162 Ugda (CO Gen. Bren Adnan) on 8 October

Egyptian Air force gun camera pictures shows Mig 21, Whose air speed boom is visible at lover left, attacking an Israeli Air force Mirage, which, in turn, is on the tail of another Mig 21.

Egyptian Chief of Staff Saadeddin El-Shazli


Israeli Chief of Staff David Elazar


IDF soldiers on the Golan Heights


A wounded israeli soldier being treated on the Golan Heights


On patrol along the Suez canal


IDF infantry units searching for egyptian commandos in Sinai dunes


The ruins of Homs in Syria, after bombardement. In the foreground, the landing gear of a destroy IAF aircraft


Dead or sleeping? ID the tank ; Golan Heights


Israeli POW at the hands of syrian soldiers


IDF counter-attacking in the northern Sinai


Egyptians POW near the Suez canal


Israelis POW in Egypt


The crossing of the Suez canal by the egyptian troops near Al Kantara


A soviet SAM near Suez on the west bank of the canal


Israeli forces crossing the Suez canal


Generals Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon inspecting an IDF outpost on the west bank of the Suez canal


Israeli soldiers praying on the kuneitra-Damascus road, 22 kilometers from the syrian capital


Israeli tank in front of a mosque at the doors of Suez city


Israeli general Yariv with his egyptian couterpart general Gamassi at the cease fire signing ceremony at Kilometer 101


At km 101, officials from israel (on the left), egypt (on the right) and UN (in the middle), discussing the cease fire agreement

Israelis observing a damaged building along the Suez canal


A religious office near the Suez canal

ISRAELI ARMOUR STARTING THE BREAKTHROUGH OF THE SYRIAN LINES ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


ISRAELI UNITS MOVING INTO BATTLE COUNTER-ATTACKING SYRIAN TROOPS ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.


A TANK COMMANDER IN THE TURRET OF HIS VEHICLE IN SINAI.


A COCKPIT OF A FIGHTER PLANE.


WOUNDED IDF SOLDIERS TREATED IN THE SINAI.


A WOUNDED IDF SOLDIER BOARDING A HELICOPTER.


A WOUNDED IDF SOLDIER FLYING BY HELICOPTER TO A HOSPITAL IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY.


IDF SOLDIERS PREPAIRING COFFEE.


A GENERAL STAFF MEETING.


CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID ELAZAR ON HIS WAY BY HELICOPTER TO THE SINAI DESERT.


CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID ELAZAR (L) SPEAKING WITH ALUF ARIK SHARON.


DEFENSE MINISTER MOSHE DAYAN SPEAKING WITH AN IDF SOLDIER DURING A VISIT HE CONDUCTED TO AN IDF OUTPOST IN THE SINAI DESERT.


THE MOBILE BRIDGE ON THE SUEZ CANAL, USED BY THE ARMOURED CORPS.


A MOBILE BRIDGE BUILT BY THE IDF ON THE SUEZ CANAL.


AN IDF ARMOURED CAR CROSSING THE MOBILE BRIDGE BUILT BY THE IDF ON THE SUEZ CANAL.


ARTILLERIES CROSSING A MOBILE BRIDGE BUILT BY THE IDF ON THE SUEZ CANAL.


SYRIAN SOLDIERS HOLDING THEIR HANDS UP AS A SIGN OF SURRENDER IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.




BLINDFOLDED SYRIAN SOLDIERS SITTING BY A FENCE, WAITING TO BE PICKED UP BY IDF SOLDIERS.


AN IDF SOLDIER ATTENDING TO A WOUNDED EGYPTIAN SOLDIER.

A SYRIAN COLONEL PILOT WHO LOST BOTH HIS LEGS, BEING TAKEN ON A STRECHER TO THE RED CROSS PLANE FOR REPATRIATED.


SOME OF THE 382 SYRIANS P.O.WS BOARDING A RED-CROSS CHARTERED JUMBO JET AT B.G. AIRPORT FOR REPATRIATION TO THEIR HOMELAND.


HAPPY SMILES AND HAPPY FACES OF ISRAELI P.O.WS RETURNING HOME AFTER 8 MONTHS OF CAPTIVITY IN SYRIAN CAMPS.


MI ROKEAH THE ISRAELI PILOT RETURNED FROM SYRIAN CAPTIVITY DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN TEL AVIV.


EGYPTIAN TROOPS UNLOADING COFFINS WITH THE REMAINS OF EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS DURING THE EXCHANGE OF BODIES ON THE BALUZA-KANTARA ROAD.


A BUS WITH EGYPTIAN NEWSMEN AND PHOTOGRAPHERS THE RETURN OF THE 39 COFFINS WITH YOM KIPPUR WAR DEAD DRAPED WITH ISRAELI FLAGS AT BALUZA OUTPOST.


A UN GUARD IN FRONT OF A TENT AT KM 101.


EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI OFFICERS SHAKING HANDS AT KM 101 ON THE SUEZ-CAIRO ROAD DURING THE TALKS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT AFTER THE YOM KIPPUR WAR

Some very rare pics taken in early 1974, few months after the fighting ended - Originally posted by "Il12941" dude in Fresh.co.il 's forum

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West bank of the Suez Canal, Africa