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Israeli NCO served with Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Israel Defence Forces in Israel and Egypt during Six Day War, 6/1967 and during War of Attrition in Egypt, 1967-1969
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REEL 1 Background in Haifa, Israel, 1948-1966: family circumstances; question of Jewish consciousness; political activities; sense of security; relations with Arabs; visits aboard; sense of threat from Arab countries; identification with patriotism and Israeli Labour Party. Recollections of conscription into Israel Defence Forces in Israel, 1966-1967: attitude towards conscription; national composition of Israeli forces; character of Druses serving in Israel Defence Forces; call-up for military service and initial training.
REEL 2 Continues: allocation of conscripts to different sections of army; reputation of 1st Golani Bde; effect of initial training on recruits; female recruits and exemptions from conscription; function of army rabbis; motivation of troops; character of uniforms; transfer to Anti-Aircraft Artillery School, Herzlia, 1967.
REEL 3 Continues: character of anti-aircraft system he operated; degree of confidence in system. Recollections of operations with Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Israel Defence Forces during Six Day War in Israel and Egypt 6/1967: rising tension prior to outbreak of war; move to Negev Desert, Israel for gun commander's course, 5/1967; atmosphere in army on outbreak of war; accidental shooting down of Israeli Air Force jet aircraft; shooting down of Iraqi Air Force aircraft; move into Sinai Desert, Egypt; dealing with Egyptian prisoners of war in Sinai Desert, Egypt; sight of Egyptian equipment in Sinai Desert, Egypt.
REEL 4 Continues: confiscation of Egyptian equipment; nature of Egyptian recovery; Egyptian Mikoyan Gurevich MiG aircraft attack on unit in Canal Zone, Egypt; reaction to scale of victory; change in attitude towards Egyptians as result of war; sight of civilians in Sinai; attitude in Israel Defence Forces to prospects of captured personnel. Aspects of operations with Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Israel Defence Forces in Sinai Desert and Golan Heights, Syria/Israel during War of Attrition, 1969: transformation of Sinai Desert, Egypt after 1967; handling Egyptian Air Force counter-attack, 7/1969; further Egyptian Air Force attacks, summer 1969.
REEL 5 Continues: problems of hitting aircraft at high speed; problems with dust; active deployment on Golan Heights, Syria/Israel, 1968; return to Israel Defence Forces for two months duty to complete service, 1977; effects of military service; assessment of positive and negative points of Israeli Defence Forces.