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- Kubersky, Egipet-69, Part 1.
- Nicolle and Cooper, Arab MiG Units, p. 30.
- Molodtsov, “Opyt.”
- The next day, Israel admitted one Mirage lost and another damaged in a dogfight, as against
five Eg yptian planes—the first IAF loss in air combat since 1967. Shalom, Phantoms,
vol. 1, pp. 337–51. - UPI, “Guns and Tanks Battle across Suez Canal,” Eagle (Reading, PA), 21 July 1969, p. 4.
- See, e.g., Nicolle and Cooper, Arab MiG Units, p. 30: “Israeli commandos destroyed a
radar position on Green Island to punch a breach in Eg yptian radar coverage. Israeli fight-
ers swarmed through.” - Lecture by former Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ze’ev Almog, 12 September 2013;
summary in authors’ possession. A senior Soviet adviser to Eg yptian Air Defense does not
list Green Island among the radar stations that Israel destroyed in 1969–70; Molodtsov,
“Opyt.” - Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 1, pp. 328–30.
- Bar-Siman-Tov, War of Attrition, pp. 57–8, 81ff.
- Karpov, “Vospominaniya,” p. 105.
- Dmitriev’s marine detachment arrived from the Black Sea Fleet on 19 May for a three-
month tour of duty. It included two infantry companies (of which he commanded one),
one each of amphibious tanks and of mortars, and a platoon of “shoulder-fired anti-tank
missiles”—the earliest mention so far of Malyutkas in Eg ypt. They practiced, among other
exercises, a tank-supported landing in Port Fuad to enable the evacuation of Soviet advis-
ers in case of an Israeli incursion. On their return voyage in August, they took part in the
Fifth Eskadra’s “first joint maneuvers” with the Eg yptian and Syrian navies. V.I. Dmitriev,
“Zapiski leytenanta morskoy pekhoty,” in Filonik, Komandirovka, pp. 22–6. - Arab affairs correspondent, Davar, 23 July 1969, p. 1; Jean Daniel, translated in Davar,
22 May 1969, p. 6; Israel Foreign Ministry Research Department 7 June 1970, ISA
HZ-4605/2. A biography of Kharchikov mentions that he was injured (and decorated for
it) in 1968 in Port Said. Yury Belov, “Russky Bard,” Sovetskaya Rossiya, 14 February 2008,
http://www.sovross.ru/articles/142/2755 - Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 2, p. 731. Shmuel Gordon (Thirty Hours in October, Tel Aviv:
Ma’ariv, 2008, pp. 82–3) calculates a total of 120 deep-penetration sorties out of 10,520
combat sorties in the entire War of Attrition. - Alizadeh, interview. The first such casualty to be named and dated was a Col. Kolchenko
from Kazakhstan, who was killed in a bombing on the II Army Corps headquarters at Tel
el-Kebir on 20 July 1969; another adviser and their interpreter were injured. Klimentov,
“God s tankistami vtoroy polevoy armii,” p. 193. - Serkov, Liniya fronta, pp. 93, 121–3, 128–30.
- V[ladimir] Dudchenko, “Voyna sudnogo dnya: krovavaya nich’ya,” in Filonik,
Komandirovka, p. 29. Palit (Return to Sinai, p. 30) lists Wadi Natrun among several such
facilities. - AC, testimony of Siman-Tov Binyamin, p. 15.