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...ground-to-air missiles and artillery to safeguard their bridgeheads. Up and down the canal, Egyptian forces in assault boats suddenly put out a series of bridges, including three at El Qantara in the north-central sector of the canal, three more at Ismailia and another three at Suez on the southern end. Some of the bridges were old-fashioned pontoons lashed together and topped with roadway; others were a modern type put down by Soviet-developed amphibious vehicles that laid ladder-like sections as they chugged across the canal. Soldiers went across in small boats and rafts at points...
...Rudeis, farther down the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian commando units were meanwhile dispatched to work their way behind Israeli lines and disrupt supply routes. They did it effectively. But as the battle went on, the Israelis returned the trick by sending nighttime commandos across the Gulf of Suez to swing round and hit the Egyptians in the same...
...country this brilliant, aggressive and fiercely devoted soldier would stand out as a talented strategist. The mastermind behind Egypt's assault on the formidable Bar-Lev Line on the east side of the Suez Canal, Shazli, 52, has long awaited his chance to prove the Arabs' military prowess. Educated at the Egyptian military academy and trained in the Soviet Union, he has been an officer since the first Palestine war of 1948. After the 1967 Six-Day War, he commanded Egypt's "special forces" and later the elite commando unit that forayed across the Suez Canal into...
Driving south to the Sinai along a road built before the Romans came to Egypt, we found virtually all traffic going one way-toward the Suez Canal. Among the endless convoys of military trucks and Jeeps were the motley fleets of civilian vehicles mobilized for the war. In the first days of the fighting, Tel Aviv had been nearly emptied of all taxis and trucks-and here in the desert you could see why. Private delivery vans, called up in the mobilization, were now at the front, still bearing the markings of the milk or bread companies that they served...
Nonetheless, the Israelis exuded confidence, some of which bordered on the fanciful. For example, when noting the enormous concentration of Egyptian tanks and troops on the east bank of the Suez Canal, one Israeli officer remarked: "I'm not sure that tactically we didn't want them to come across, since our ultimate objective is to demolish their military machine." Yet by the end of the week, that development was far off. In Sinai, the Israelis had still to deliver a victorious counterattack...