Yom Kippur War - Pictures & Videos

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My first thought, I just copied and pasted a faulty caption.


Original quote from David Rubinger, the photographer: In the first days of fighting in the Yom Kippur War on the Golan Heights the Israeli forces had taken a terrible beating from the Syrians. I had gone up with Yossi Peled's 200th Brigade, whose task was to relieve the forces that had taken the brunt of theinitial attack. Reaching the Golan plateau, the unit ran into an artillery ambush. Shells were raining down, but at the point, even with all the action around me, I didn?t get a single good picture. The Syrians were well out of sight, the tank battleraged over distances of miles and bullets don't photograph in flight. The visible evidence of war is where the results of the fighting meet the eye. Like where this soldier, who had been hit in the ambush, was being treated.

Moshe Dayan tours the Egyptian front in a helicopter.


Golan Heights, Israel- Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (C) peers through the observation slit on a bunker overlooking a battle scene


Frantic activity in the war room of the Israeli Southern Command during the Yom Kippur War.



Artillery crew on the Syrian front
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Israeli soldiers are engaged in fights with the Syrian army on the road to Damascus.
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Israeli artillery bombarding Syrian positions in the Golan Desert



The grave of an Israeli tank pilot is marked by his helmet on top of an artillery shell

Rest in peace

Five Syrian prisoners and tank pilots and injured for 48 hours. Israeli soldiers stop to mask their eyes, give them water and escort them behind the front line.


Israeli Soldiers Lifting Wounded on a Tank
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Israelis showing the flag on the Syrian front in the Golan Heights
 

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IDF fighting in Syria against an Iraqi brigade.


An IDF tank resupplies on ammo in the Syrian front.


The remains of a battle in the Golan.


Fighting in Suez city.


Soldiers that fought on the Syrian front, calling home for the first time after the war.


Israeli soldiers in Sinai.


A wounded soldier evecuated in Sinai.


Israeli rear soldiers in the Golan listen on the radio to the bloody delay battles.


IDF tanks going on the offensive in the Golan.


Israeli soldier looking at a plane's wreckage in Sinai.


IDF forces advancing on the Egyptian front.


an Israeli soldier helping another wounded soldier in Sinai.


A wounded soldier evecuated in Sinai.
 

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Abandoned Syrian trucks in the Golan.


Abandoned Syrian AA gun and tanks.



Damaged Israeli Centurion beyond a knocked out Syrian BRDM.


Israeli soldier standing next to a captured Syrian T-62.



A captured Egyptian missile truck.


Egyptian soldiers from the encircled 3rd army recive supplies after the cease fire.



fighting in Syria.


Israeli soldiers looking at an artillery bombardment in Sinai.


IDF rocket fire in Sinai.


Tank battle in the Golan.


An Egyptian MIG going down.


Fighting in Suez city.


Bern, commander of Ugdah 162 in Sinai, looking at a map.
 

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Anyway.... some more pics to cover for the flaming.

Captured Egyptian BTR-50 used by Israeli infantry.



Hebrew readers might find this one intersting, picture of the forces of one Ugdah in Sinai, taken from a war room.


Israeli soldier in some destroyed farm house in the Syrian front.


Temporaory monument for the fallen soldiers of the 7th armored brigade that have fallen in the Golan.



IDF Centurion during the fighting in the Golan.


IAF Skyhawk providing cover for advanicng forces in the Golan.


IDF crewman preapre their tanks for combat in the Golan.


IDF tank commander signaling orders with a flag, in the Golan.


Israeli navy missile ships patrol the seas.



Israeli soldiers, observing Egyptian troops from the encircled 3rd army, recive supplies after the cease fire.
 

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Israeli ammo truck on fire in Sinai.


Israeli artillery fire in the Syrian front.


Israeli Centurion during a battle in Syria.


Israeli prisoners in Egypt.


Captured Egyptian equipment taken by trucks into Israel.


Egyptian prisoners.


Wounded IDF troops being evecuated in Sinai.


Captured Egyptian position on the western side of the canal.


Tank battle in Sinai.


IDF tanks in the Golan.


Captured Syrian outpost.


Israeli infantry taking positions in Africa.


Egyptian and Israeli soldiers at the cease fire line.


 

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What are the differences in appearance between the BTR-50 to the OT-62?

A wounded Israeli soldier being treated in Sinai.


Map showing the battle plans of an IDF counter attack.


For the Hebrew readers, a list of the IDF's ugdout(divisions) and brigades during the war.


Israeli prisoners in Egypt.


Encircled Egyptian troops recivie supplies after the cease fire.


Smoke coming from a helicopter that was shot down by soldiers from the 100th battalion.


Captured Egyptian tank on the western bank of the canal.


IDF tanks in Egypt.


IDF troops in Sinai.
 

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Smoke rising from Suez city after an Israeli bombardment.


Israeli soldiers on the western side of the canal.








First field shower after the cease fire in the western side of the canal.


IDF Halftracks in Egypt.


IDF taking a census of the civilian population under Israeli control in Egypt.




Israeli reservists as a captured Egyptian missile site.


Sunken merchant ship at the Bitter Lake.


Indonesian UN troops raising a tent in Egypt.


Israeli soldiers posing next to an destroyed Egyptian helicopter in Africa.


A destroyed house in an Israeli Kibutz that was hit by a Syrian Frog missile.


UN soldier standing next to an Israeli flag in Egypt.
 

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These pictures are from the site of the 14th brigade that fought in the Yom Kippur war on the Egyptian front and lost 303 men.
the pictures are from the album of the brigade commander Amnon Reshef.

6.10.73 - The 14th brigade's war room bunker in the first hours of the war.


7.10.73 - The 143 Ugda(division) war room bunker.


9.10.73 - Wounded soldiers are evecuated from "Tassa".








9.10.73 - Rescue of the "Purkan" stronghold troops.






10.10.73 - The Battalion commanders recieve a briefing after 4 stright days of fighting.


15.10.73 - The brigade moves towards the canal crossing battle.


15/16.10.73 - The first and second out of 5 Egyptian tanks destroyed by the brigade commander's tank goes up in flames at the "Chinese Farm" battle.






16.10.73 - The "Chinese Farm" battle rages on.










 

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16.10.73 - Destroyed tanks at the "Tartor"-"Lexicon" junction.


16.10.73 - Destroyed Israeli and Egyptian tanks at the "Tartor"-"Lexicon" junction.


16.10.73 - Destroyed Egyptian tank at the "Chinese Farm".



17.10.73 - Continued fighting and securing of the canal crossing area.


17.10.73 - Sharon and Dayan assess the situation over an Egyptian SAM missile.


19.10.73 - The brigade crosses the canal.


19.10.73 - Assault and conquest of the "Aorha" and "Saphareom" array.


19.10.73 - Captured Egyptian AT gun at the "Aorha" array.


19.10.73 - An Egyptian fighter shot down by ground fire.




20.10.73 - Somewhat Graphic: A fallen Egyptian commando at the "Orha" array, around 300-400 Egyptian soldiers were killed there.

20.10.73 - Captured Egyptian soldiers at the "Orha" array.












22.10.73 - The brigade commander giving orders through the radio.


The brigade commander with Sharon and Dayan at the Egyptian side of the canal, after the cease fire.


חטיבה 14 - עמוד הבית
 

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Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World


Sharon tells how he crossed the Canal.
By DANIEL GOTTLIEB
Jerusalem Post Correspondent
November 13, 1973

WASHINGTON — Major General Ariel (Arik) Sharon, in a further installment of a "New York Times" interview yesterday, detailed how he made advance preparations for the Suez Canal crossing by weakening the earthen bank running along the waterway at a crucial road junction.

At the crossing point just north of the Great Bitter Lake, the general had the high earthen bank weakened at one point and ordered the spot marked by red bricks, "The Times" related.

The newspaper quoted him as saying that he did this during his 4 years as Southern Area commander, when he realized 'that it might be necessary someday to make a canal crossing.'

When Aluf Sharon outlined his plan for the Canal crossing on October 15, "The Times" said, an engineering officer said he could not quickly breach the banks with the bulldozers and other equipment available.
"I told him to look for the red bricks, and when the time came he found them I the dark and did it," the general was quoted as saying.
Sharon said the Canal crossing operation was so complicated, "It made operations like taking the Egyptian strongpoint of Abu Agelia in 1967 seem simple."

The main problem, he said was to reach the water and establish the bridgehead in the same night. The tactics involved sending one armored brigade north of the Tasa-Great Bitter Lake road in a deceptive move while the main force swept past sand dunes along the lake to the bridgehead.

The key battle, he said, was a staggeringly violent fight to protect the bridgehead corridor from Egyptian counterattacks on the eastern bank. "The Times" reporter who conducted the interview said a visit to the now quiet battlefield on the eastern bank showed 24 totally burned out Israeli Patton tanks within a short stretch of a few thousand yards, with about 100 knocked out Egyptian tanks in the same area.


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I can tell you one thing. These tanks were collected by the IDF for sure.....


And just to back up my statement even more:

Here is a graveyard of captured T-62`s.


Here is the description of the IDF Samovar program.(conversion of T-series tanks)





And finally just to rub it in...

An IDF T-62


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This is like China and Pakistan both invading India simultaneously! What are the chances of us winning a two front war? I think if we use our brains like Israel we can win them.
 

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Egyptian commando forces in parade on March 1974 at thier main camps near Suez Canal. Thier groups no 129th & 139th Stopped Rashiev armoured brigade of Sharon Division from cutting Cairo/Ismaeilya main Road on 20th till 24th of Oct. Thier success prevented the partial surrounding of the 2nd army. Thier colleages in Paratrooper brigades 150th & 182nd confronted Sharon armoured division south of Ismaeilia on the 20th as well till the 24th & prevented him from occupying the city.





General sharon on Canal West bank.







Here Ditchi & Yoal have fallen







Destroyed IDF carriers




IDF halftruck set in fire by the Egyptian artillary.




IDF soldier points to a destroyed IDF tank while passing by the remains of a fierce battlefield that took place in Al Gelae camp ( Chineese farm).




IDF troops under direct hits from the Egyptian Artillary. IDF generals highly rate the Egyptian artillary gunners capabilities.



Damaged IDF tanks in front of the Chineese farm.



Further destroyed IDF tanks




Isreaeli POW while marching to an Egyptian military prison.



Egyptian soldiers of the 18th Division saloting General Shazli ( EG chief of staff)on the 8th of OCt. On this day they succeded in replulsing main IDF armoured counterattack destroying more than 160 tanks out of General Adan 250 tanks division. General Mendler armoured division was badly affected as well.




An Egyptian soldier patrolling an abandoned IDF post.

 

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An Egyptian fighter bombing Israeli targets:


Israeli soldier on the Egyptian front:


IDF paratroopers crossing the canal in rubber boats, recover a fallen comrade from the water:


IDF tanks crossing into Africa:


An Israeli bridge being deployed:


And put to use:


Fallen Egyptian commando:


Egyptian POWs:


An Egyptian SAM decoy:


IDF tank overruns an Egyptian SAM site:


Destroyed Egyptian SAM:


Captured Egyptian troops:


A wounded Egyptian recieves first aid:


Egyptian POWs:






Egyptian POWs in Africa:


Text says: "Monument to the Egyptian soldier"
 

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These are the personal pictures from the war of Shmulevich Asher, a reservist who was attached upon being recruited to the artillery corps 873 battlion, who operated 130mm lotted guns. he served on the Syrian front.










































 

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These are pictures posted by user Markoys(מרקויס), from Fresh.co.il, of his father from the Egyptian front.






































 

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Battle of Ismailia

An Israeli soldier with his Uzi poses near a milestone on the road to Ismailia



Tanks of Sharon's division advance towards Ismailia during Operation Abiray-Lev, moving through agricultural terrain with heavy vegetation.



Israeli paratroopers with Uzis, an FN FAL and an RPG doing battle with Egyptian Sa'iqa (commandos) near Ismailia.



An Egyptian officer stands over the wreckage of an Israeli Mirage.



An Egyptian Sa'iqa (commando) looks at a group of knocked out Israeli Pattons in the village of Abu Atwa, near Ismailia.



A group of knocked out Israeli Pattons near Ismailia. The markings in Arabic on the far tank read "132nd Sa'iqa Battalion".

 

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This is like China and Pakistan both invading India simultaneously! What are the chances of us winning a two front war? I think if we use our brains like Israel we can win them.
Pardon me, but I think it is a insult to the fighting capabilities and middle-level leadership of both China and Pakistan by comparing them to those exhibited by the Arabs in the Arab-Israeli wars.


Ontopic :- Great pics.You could see the 'bring-it-on' attitude on the faces of the IDF soldiers, literally.
 
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