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attacked
Israeli targets in retaliation for the airstrike on Egypt, their attacks were largely ineffectual. In response many of the IAF planes headed for a third strike on Egypt were diverted en route to Syrian and Jordanian targets, and other IAF aircraft were sent against Arab ground forces in
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Israeli wave attacked 11 bases, catching much of the Egyptian Air Force on the ground and destroying them before they got airborne. The Israeli jets then returned to Israel, were "quick-turned" (refueled and re-armed) in 7 minutes 30 seconds, and left in a second wave that attacked 14
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in the Sinai to meet the commanders of the troops stationed there. In this event it did not make a great deal of difference as the
Israeli pilots came in below Egyptian radar cover and well below the lowest point at which Egypt's
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in 1967. It is sometimes referred to as the "Sinai Air Strike". At 07:45 on 5 June 1967, the
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904:"Six Days of War" by Michael Oren (chapter 3)
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