King & Country
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Hi Guys,
A little while back I shared some photos of our upcoming North Vietnamese Army T54 /55’s on the road to Saigon.
Well now we’re giving you a preview of a different road and a very different destination... Damascus the Syrian capital.
When the Yom Kippur War broke out in October 1973 Egypt and Syria launched joint attacks on the Suez Canal ‘Bar Lev Line’ in the south of Sinai and the Israeli-held Golan Heights in the north.
A vastly outnumbered Israeli armoured brigade was forced back to the very edge of the western escarpment of the Golan where a ferocious, close-quarter tank battle ensued which would come to be known as the ‘Valley of Tears’.
Over the course of a few bloody days the Syrian tanks were finally stopped... destroyed or disabled then, as Israeli replacement armour and reinforcements began arriving, the I.D.F. General Staff began discussing a counter-offensive.
The decision was taken to continue pushing the Syrian army back into Syria while destroying as much of it as possible without actually going all the way to Damascus.
Here we see one of our Israeli ‘Centurions’ passing by two ‘knocked-out’ Syrian T54/55’s... Lying by the side of the road are several dead Syrian tankers. Such is the price of war!
All the best,
Andy
A little while back I shared some photos of our upcoming North Vietnamese Army T54 /55’s on the road to Saigon.
Well now we’re giving you a preview of a different road and a very different destination... Damascus the Syrian capital.
When the Yom Kippur War broke out in October 1973 Egypt and Syria launched joint attacks on the Suez Canal ‘Bar Lev Line’ in the south of Sinai and the Israeli-held Golan Heights in the north.
A vastly outnumbered Israeli armoured brigade was forced back to the very edge of the western escarpment of the Golan where a ferocious, close-quarter tank battle ensued which would come to be known as the ‘Valley of Tears’.
Over the course of a few bloody days the Syrian tanks were finally stopped... destroyed or disabled then, as Israeli replacement armour and reinforcements began arriving, the I.D.F. General Staff began discussing a counter-offensive.
The decision was taken to continue pushing the Syrian army back into Syria while destroying as much of it as possible without actually going all the way to Damascus.
Here we see one of our Israeli ‘Centurions’ passing by two ‘knocked-out’ Syrian T54/55’s... Lying by the side of the road are several dead Syrian tankers. Such is the price of war!
All the best,
Andy
