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[Thrilling instrumental music]
[engine starts]
Imagine two small beaten aircraft on this abandoned runway ,
On brindisi, Italy.
[engine rotates]
We have to travel a thousand miles to israel.
We read every day about the convoy,
In Israel is being trapped in the hills. </ P>
In one case, that 40 doctor's convoys who was killed.
[bomb exploded]
[wailing sirens]
[lenart] it's hopeless time, in Palestine.
There is food that must be dropped, ammunition that must be dropped
And they only have some of their child pipers.
So, these planes are very important to go there. </ p >
We take the seat behind,
And put in a large rubber tank filled with fuel,
With the pipe going to wing tanks.
We fly molotov cocktails.
We don't have life rafts, no operational radio.
I see some beautiful wildflowers right with the runway. </ P>
[goldstein] I see Lou jumping from his plane and choose flowers.
I want to kill him, but, uh, I can control myself.
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[Lenart] just from the edge of from the runway it is a cliff,
And the plane just sink like this.
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Eleven and a half hours watching that single propeller
Wandering around and around.
Never seen land, never seen a ship,
Never see airplanes, just water.
[goldstein] it's the stupidest thing we've done it, fly 11 hours
On the water , single engine aircraft.
The only person I know has ever done that, is lindbergh.
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Finally, we made a landing on the net, turned south.
We circled the Telkom aviv airport. It's just a strip of land.
Don't have lighting, except what they call "gooseneck."
And after about 45 minutes, we were able to to enter and land.
[this spinning engine]
[lenart] second this small plane
What is the biggest they have in israel.
The next morning they already dropped supplies to the kibbutzim. </ P>
I handed over the flowers to the first woman I saw. </ P>
Well , that's lou.
I learned afterwards that we first arrived.
That was originally from the Israeli air force. </ p >
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This day day for the sailors, and for the best reason in the world . </ P>
they are the first to be released by the navy. Please Thank you, friends, for a job well done!
[cheering]
[Frankel] after I returned than three years of war,
I was in minot, north dakota.
Partnering with used car and truck business.
Money, boyfriend, car...
The whole enchilada.
I really do not very concerned about Palestine.
I never went to hebrew school.
My mother had to drag me kicking and screaming to get my bar-mitzvah & apos; d. </ p >
I grew up in the age of very virile and anti-Semitism.
Saya dibesarkan di usia sangat jantan dan anti semitisme.
People like coughlin's father...
We believe the principle of Christ,
Love your neighbor as yourself, and with that principle,
I challenge every Jew in this country,
Tell me what he did don't believe!
[cheering crowd]
[frankel] it's difficult. When I'm walking home from school,
We used to get it up, down, and sideways.
Killer of Christ, sheeny,
Dirty, and everything.
We tried to ignore it, but you didn't can. That is part of your soul.
They surround me and that person will hit me from behind, and I will turn around around and then he hit me.
I realized then I was about 13 years,
In order for me to survive, I have to be very strong.
So I wrote to a man called atlas charles, with dollars. </ P>
By the time I 15 years, nobody beat me.
[bomb explodes]
I graduated from high school in April.
End of April I went to the recruitment office, and there are people lined up
And there is a man sitting at the table.
I fill out the form.
Of course it says there , "religion." "Jewish."
He looked at me, and he said,
"The Marine Corps is a difficult garment. Do you think you can make it? "
I looked at him and I said,
"if you succeed, I can do it."
I grew up in newark, new Jersey.
I used to go back from the battle with black eyes,
And I went into the house and my father said,
"what you did to others ? "
My father is a tiger.
We don't have a car, but I have a friend who has a bicycle,
Dan we will cross the highway and everything is on our bikes.
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I live near the Newark airport.
We will watch the plane land , and watch the pilot and admire them.
So I'm always interested in on flight.
[lichter] when we were little, < br /> I used to go to coney island with my friends.
I will go on a cyclone or lightning when I can afford it.
That might be 10 or 15 cents a ride.
This who is in a hurry [panting].
Being scared of and loving him at the same time.
That was my introduction to take risk and want to be a pilot.
We live in a kosher house because of respect for my grandparents.
But I don't like being a Jew.
I don't think you can get a job in the fire department or the police department in new york if you're a Jew.
I am not denying my Jews, but...
I am not happy about being Jewish.
What changed me was knowing what he was doing murderer to Jews.
He killed six million!
[goldstein] I didn't understand Zionism, but I know
What happened in Europe in concentration camps.
And the refugees are trying to find some places to live.
Also, British people intercept them on the high seas
And put it behind barbed wire in Germany.
I think there should be something done about this. </ p >
[news reporter] Europeans who were moved were on the last lap from a journey to freedom.
Their eyes changed towards the horizon,
Search for the coastline from the promised land.
Off in the distance, British destroyer fires.
So close but it's so far away.
Palestine is still a promise.
[singing in a foreign language]
[penslar] in the final part of war, there is
Pressure great in the UK, who controls Palestine, to allow Jews
to immigrate in large numbers to palestine.
That is something the British government just refuses to do it. </ P>
Because they know if they will have it the future in this region,
They must have good intentions from all over the Arab world.
And they won't have it if they allow massive immigration from Jews to Palestine.
The British realized that they could not reach a compromise
Between the warring clans in the palestine, the Jews and para arabs.
And they understand they can't stay here indefinitely.
Become British in February & apos; 47 said, "we will be palestine's hand and all the problems,
Return to the world community. "
And the united nations come with partition proposals.
The idea is < br /> to partition the country into two parts,
Two states, one for Jews from palestine, and one for arabs from Palestine.
Jews accepted partition resolution November 29, 1947.
Arabs rejected. They want all palestine for them. yourself.
[un speaker] English,
Keep away.
United States,
Yes.
Uruguay,
Yes.
[penslar] when voting is being counted people count on their heads.
And when they realize two-thirds majority has been achieved,
Shouts of joy like that.
Their dreams of statehood were finally granted.
The resolution of was adopted by 33 votes ,
13 against, 10 abstentions.
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People here overwhelmed.
Everyone dance and sing on the streets.
There is only one person who is sad.
His name is David Ben-Gurion.
I stand by his side < br /> when he sees in dancing people.
And he says, "well, today they dance,
Tomorrow their blood will spill. "
And that's how it happened.
[loud explosion]
[penslar] there is violence.
From the time of partition until the spring of 1948.
A kind of civil war between Jews and palestinian arabs.
[shots]
It's time Jerusalem is besieged.
That's when israel's condition looks like it's possible never appeared.
[morris] a large number of palestinians
Turned into refugees, or evacuate from their home
As a result of fighting.
In some cases, there is eviction.
And in others, the their leader told them to leave.
But basically, they ran away in the face of the turmoil of war.
After the partition voting, people the english announced
That they will go to leave Palestine on May 15, 1948,
And it starts the clock ticking.
[craig weiss] everyone knows that, come 15 May, there will be a vacuum.
And for Jews, they know they have to be set up
And ready to fight with neighbors Arab soldiers.
Who is preparing to attack as soon as the British leave.
[crowd cheering]
[morris] Egyptians have an air force
with several dozen spitfires and several other military aircraft .
[roaring machine]
Jews in Palestine have very small air arms called haganah air service.
Layanan udara mereka tidak signifikan dan tidak memiliki pesawat militer.
Ben-gurion called me, and he said "look,
We have a little shotgun, a little machine gun.
We don't have a plane, We don't have tanks.
And unless we have to get some weapons, we get lost. "
And he said, "I will go to the United States to mobilize forces. </ P>
Ben-Gurion's view is that we will really do it be the place
To go for everything.
American money,
World war surplus equipment ii either rot in the fields,
Or being sold with memo prices,
Jewish veterans who have current military skills.
[livingston] I got a letter from a friend of mine in twa
And the letter just says,
"if you are interested in flying ammunition to Palestine,
Contact this number in New York and ask for swifty."
Like
So, what the hell is this, I called the number.
"livingston! Where's Are you? We already waiting for a week for you! "
I said," Waiting for me, huh? "
" Yes, we need you soon! "
I know my whole life will be different. I just found out that!
[lenart] I'm in hollywood.
There there is a palestinian general
Who will speak at the temple that night.
I went to him and I said, "Listen, I know there will be being a war there,
And I'm a fighter pilot, and I want to go there. "
He said, "Well, I didn't know anything about that."
Because, you know, it's not like, newspaper ads, "Join the haganah!" </ P>
That's illegal, of course. </ P>
[jeffrey weiss] although the truman has been a strong supporter from a Jewish country,
The foreign ministry has become very ambivalent about partitions.
They think that a Jewish country is unsuccessful established,
That Jews will be flooded by arabs.
And so, we took a number of steps
To make it clear that anyone who tries to go for palestine to fight will lose their citizenship,
And that will happen no exports American war material to palestine.
Americans lead in building an embargo alarm to the whole middle east.
Our problem is how to break it embargo.
We use all possible means.
Ingenuity, connection,
Smuggling, everything.
Because it's a matter of life and death.
[penslar] this is when an important figure named al schwimmer steps in.
Al schwimmer is in many ways the founder /> from the Israeli air force.
He started his career as a flight engineer.
That's al schwimmer, Americans,
Who, when he is involved in this company, is advised
Anda tidak akan memenangkan perang melawan negara arab jika kamu tidak memiliki angkatan udara.
Ben-gurion, now, he thought very similar.
[lenart] I got a phone call on Sunday morning
From al schwimmer.
He gave me an envelope with $ 5,000,
Send me to surplus war administration.
It was desert
And if you're a veteran you can buy it.
So the cost of the aircraft to build is around 175,000. </ p >
For $ 5,000 I became the owner of from c-46.
[jeffrey weiss] schwimmer bought a dozen c-46's,
Two or three of constellations,
And getting the operation was established in California.
The point is, from the beginning, he created airline
And finally the nucleus from the Israeli transportation squadron.
An important point at the moment
Is recruiting crew.
We have these planes,
But nobody flew them .
My first job doesn't fly.
It explores stolen recordings new york air national list of guardians
Search for for Jewish names that are heard with pilot status. </ P>
[frankel] I have this phone call From New York </ p >
Judging me that Israel went to declare itself as a country,
That they have bought some airplanes,
But they don't have anyone to fly them.
[paul reubens] my father is an action pilot, brave brave man.
He very arrogant and macho.
He's like, um...
Indiana Jones, sort of, You know, I mean...
He has that type of personality.
After the war, airlines don't employ Jewish pilots.
So the chance to fly for good purposes is just great.
I believe it's the reason he left
Is pure because he is very passionate about that.
He feels like it's fate.
He said "yes" immediately
And called four friends all of whom said "yes."
[goldstein] I was working as a flight instructor
In philadelphia on the river delaware.
I started asking
to see if I could go to israel. </ p >
I was invited to New York,
Meet with al schwimmer.
That should be quietly.
[lichtman] I got the form, "Are you in world war ii? In what capacity?" </ p >
So, I filled it out. I am a fighter pilot.
A few days later I started receiving phone calls and telegrams.
"Meeting a man with flowers on his collar
On the 57 west road."
[orchestral game]
[singing singer]
[craig weiss] these clandescent operations
To recruit pilots and get weapons
Centered in a hotel where the copacabana is located.
[playing optimistic music]
And sinatra is honest used to appear there.
The fact is, he once volunteered
To make money to buy illegal weapons.
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They asked me how much I wanted it to be paid. </ p >
I said I didn't need any payment.
I thought I would go home in one or two months.
I really think we will lose.
You know, you're talking about 600,000 Jews
And 50 million arabs surround it. </ p >
I don't see how they can maybe survive.
[lichtman] I said, "mother, I'll go to palestine."
He said, "You won't.
Under any circumstances you will go."
And I said, "I'm leaving."
My father said nothing.
I knew he would leave.
I risked my citizenship and also jail time.
I don't care.
I'll help the Jews out
I will help my people out.
[livingston] Love me doesn't mean anything.
I'm American! </ P>
But the idea that Jews will fight...
I found something interesting. </ P>
It's about time
My father, I fought with him about it.
I always debated with him.
He always tell me I... I'm not a good person.
And I said, "I'll go and risk my life to be good-"
He said, "You don't have to commit suicide be a good person!"
[goldstein] I told my mother I will work for a cargo airline.
In world war ii, he received a telegram
From the war department that I have lost in action.
I don't want to put it through it again.
[frankel] my mother dropped herself onto the floor and started crying hysterically,
And I almost didn't get out the door.
I'm new just decide nothing will stop me.
I can't live with myself if I don't do this.
[lenart] part of the family I ended up in auschwitz.
My grandmother and my cousin.
I feel that the remnants are there the right to live and some < br /> chance of happiness.
[lichter] the alternative is too difficult for me to imagine,
What are the possibilities the arabs can do it.
And they talk about the fact that what the killer did
There will be nothing compared to for what they will do.
[jeffrey weiss] schwimmer have to find a way to get it the plane comes out of us.
You can't take it to palestine because English is still there
And be on high alert for weapons smugglers.
But you can't leave them inside us
Because of an arms embargo.
So they will do it have to jump around all over the world
to be as close as possible to Palestine maybe.
This idea hatches turn off these Jewish planes
Into the nucleus from fake airlines.
There are ex- air force
Who are friends with that nephew from the president of Panama.
[livingston] so we lineas area de panama,
You have these planes marching on the taxi ready to take off
And they are very conscious that this embargo starts to take effect.
And you have this treasury agent, or t-men when they were called that day,
Appears, and there is a confrontation
With some pilots who are getting ready to take off.
Swifty said, "this is a foreign registered aircraft."
"no, they are not. They are us."
Swifty berkata, "tunggu sebentar."
It happened in the hangar, he came out with a mechanic with a can of blue paint.
Mechanics got up on one the sides of c-46s and he prints,
"lapsa." lapsa.
Lineas aereas de panama.
Letters that are not neat, all bleeding went down.
Swifty said to that person, "okay, now they're registered overseas."
And that person said, <br "But I still don't want let you go." </ P>
And he said to t-man,
"You want to stop us? Shoot us. "
[up-tempo playing music]
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[livingston] in panama, we run the city. </ p >
We settled on the favorite place that I remember called tierra feliz.
Happy land.
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We bought a buick sedan.
My friend is a forest and I bought a white coat.
And we will go around < br /> and pick up the girls.
We're young, handsome, have hair.
We have lots of testosterone,
And we don't want to waste it. </ P>
What else can I say? </ P>
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We're out of Panama, < br /> we have to go through south atlantik.
So we landed at Christmas, brazil.
Then, we left, must be Casablanca
Rewards all over the place.
And then we head out, landing in Rome.
[playing romantic music]
[lenart] Rome is the headquarters from haganah,
And there gather pilots there.
We're all young men, flight jackets.
And Rome is a wild place at that time.
Beautiful woman with beautiful breasts
And I experienced once upon a time there.
And I met buzz.
They introduced me to him.
[jeffrey weiss] buzz sounds are canada lead world war ii ace.
He is a Maltese eagle. </ P>
He is the type of person who
Alone has the potential to change the course of war. </ P>
Arabs want it
But he made it known that he wanted to fight for Jews.
For him, going to palestine will make it back for the days of His glory.
And, in Rome, while the other pilots, like dizzy lichman, are out
Wandering and picking up women,
He first in his hotel room practicing with his model airplane.
One day the buzz looms over said, "I'll fly a norseman tomorrow." </ p >
He said, "do you want to ride?" I said, "sure!"
Shortly before that, I have met this beautifully Italian girl young.
I spent the night with him,
And he wants me, and I want to stay longer.
I call buzz breed.
I said, "Buzz, I can't make it today.
I have a young woman here." </ p >
So, he said, "I understand."
So, he has another man... I think his name is cohen.
[jeffrey weiss] unfortunately, certain planes burn and fall.
He and his co-pilot died instantly.
[craig weiss] there were several thinking that the plane had been sabotaged
To prevent it from those who made it to palestine. </ P>
Maybe some of these women soldiers fighting are spies. </ P>
No one really knows. </ P>
[morris] there is only one country in the world who wants to break the embargo
And sell weapons and aircraft < br /> to israel.
Czechoslovakia yankee dollars are needed.
Zionist movements have millions of dollars
Karena orang Amerika-Yahudi kontribusi untuk penyebabnya.
[jeffrey weiss] czechoslovakia providing airfields so Israelis can base it
All these transport planes
That they have been smuggled Get out of us and get down to Panama.
Israel can to set this
Basically a remote Israeli base
[lichter] when I meet these people in New York,
They ask me what I fly. I say to them in battle I fly...
Thunderbolt p-47, the mustang, p-51...
"oh," they said. "We have them. We have them."
I said, "Great! Great!" I thought.
After all, that's not true.
They train us in me 109.
Messerschmitt's famous German fighters in world war ii.
[craig weiss] German people during the war was built a messerschmitt factory in czechoslovakia.
The czech takes over after the war and continues to change the plane.
[frankel] factory which makes the engine </ p >
Apparently it's been burned,
So they have to take the machine out of the bomber.
Mickey mouse must fit through this little 4,000 pounds fighter. </ P>
[lenart] this thing put together from garbage. </ P>
Different propellers, different machines, and so on.
"messershit" I call it.
I am amazed that it can get off the ground.
And most of the time it can't.
We lost a lot of aircraft during takeoff and landing. Lots.
[lenart] they gave us flight clothes.
Blue suede with nazi wings, luftwaffe wings on it,
Which I immediately took off. </ P>
[revving engine] </ p >
I remember sitting in the cockpit from me, I'm 109,
Wearing a German uniform, German helmet, German parachute.
What are the good Jewish boys from Saint Paul doing in a place like this?
Ironically doesn't get away from us.
[revving engine]
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[announcer] hour of fate approach in Palestine.
Photo - the last photo of jerusalem before the end British mandate
Show a rather quiet city,
Barricaded and armed to the teeth.
To the east, Arab legions deploy for invasion on the transjordan border.
Rarely photographed King Abdullah reviewed reinforcements brigade from Iraq.
How far did the arabs go to prevent the partition from the holy land?
[morris] on May 12, 1948,
Ben-gurion was called the chief commander to a session
Dan ask them what will happen if we declare a country.
On May 12, he asks them,
And yigael yadin , head of the haganah operation
Tell him the opportunity is 50-50.
That is, we don't know whether it is we will win
against Arab countries if they attack.
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Arab media do speak about killing Jews, destroying Jews,
Throwing Jews into the sea.
And people Jews absorb this. </ P>
And that motivates them
In fear that if they lose the war,
There will be a holocaust second.
And that world will not interfere on their behalf.
[Hebrew-speaking]
[applause]
Ben-gurion announced Israeli state
On Friday afternoon, May 14, 1948.
I am a volunteer,
And our mission is to fly over Jordan
And give army high command
Estimated strength
Tentara jordania yang menyerang israel.
That's really a very bleak situation.
armored cars and troops
And the truck nose to tail for miles, coming from Jordan.
[news anchor] tonight, invasion. Arab soldiers are pouring.
Their tanks already crossing the border,
And border settlements have heard the first incessant attack
From combat forces Arab soldiers organized.
- [gun shot] - [bomb explodes]
[loud explosion]
Saturday morning tel aviv bombed.
Jews survive their land
In the country Regardless of reality
What they have has been outnumbered by para arabs ,
And the arabs have come far better equipped,
With heavy hands, from those owned by Jews theirs.
Jews who were at war in Palestine, state of Israel,
Fighting for the only thing they have is theirs.
[speeding gun]
Life or death for them. <
[morris] Egyptians bombed sites inside israel.
They attacked the center the bus station at tel aviv, killed several dozen people.
[machine gun shooting]
The Jews actually don't have anything to respond
For this Arab airstrike. They don't have the right air force,
And psychologically they feel very vulnerable.
[lenart] in czechoslovakia, all three of us enter commander's office.
The Czech commander was there. I told him, I said, "look,
We have to go back right now."
But he said, "You haven't finished of course you fly."
"can't wait. We go."
They said, "You are on your way to go to Israel." </ P>
I said, "how do you do will I get israel?" </ P>
"on an airplane . "
We prepared what was known as an air transportation order,
Atc.
This plane, the schwimmer has been smuggled out of America,
Start flying equipment to israel.
[livingston] they will bring messerschmitt.
Kami akan membongkar pesawat-pesawat ini.
One plane will enter c-46, plus wings.
The rest is filled with a box
That contains a machine gun < br /> and ammunition.
On this plane, they took wings,
And on the wings
They strangled me, liddy liddy.
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When I fly to Israel,
I have the biggest feeling I have ever had in my life.
I will never forget it.
And that landed in my country.
You would think this was tacky but I had been there before.
I have this deja vu.
Maybe I'm with joshua on jericho or somewhere because everything starts looks familiar.
[livingston] I remember the smell of orange groves,
Then come to hangar and see all these people in uniform.
This is a Jew?
My cynicism disappears very fast, I will tell you that.
[jeffrey weiss] the first four arrived messerschmitts
A week or more after the war began. They must be assembled. </ P>
And at that moment they are really a secret weapon. </ P>
[goldstein] they are there assembled inside one hangar,
And the Egyptians came and bombed another hangar.
Got a little lucky there.
[ jeffrey weiss] they are put together, but it is not clear
How successful they are put together, and they cannot be tried.
Pertarungan pertama mereka akan menjadi misi tempur.
At first there was thought to use it against Jordan,
But then, a panic call came to ask for help in the south.
At 5:00, shimon avidan rushed at the jeep He said, "look,
Six miles from we are standing now at the air base
Are the entire Egyptian army around 10,000 men,
And we have nothing stops them. "
He said, "if you don't leave now,
They will be in aviv in the morning and there is no israel.
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The real pilot is two palestinians, ezer weizman, modi alon,
South Africa named eddie cohen,
and louart.
And Lenart leads the mission.
[lenart] this air power from israel.
These four people
and four junk planes.
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[lenart] I climbed at 6,000 feet on the climbing curve
Modi alon realizes that I'm not sure where,
And he goes like this.
I look down, < br /> and as far as the eye can see
The Egyptian army is there on the road.
Tanks, trucks, artillery, everything.
I looked there.
I saw the enemy who came to destroy us.
I looked back and saw the people of israel behind me.
I only did fast yisrael shema though I am not religious,
It turns out the planet is reversed because of bomb diving,
The steep dive , more accurate is the hit.
[loud explosion]
I dropped my bomb,
And then I stopped, strafing
What they call clover leaves like this.
There is a machine gun shooting at propellers,
Like in world war I. </ P>
The mechanism of time doesn't always function properly,
And some pilots are filming from the propeller.
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This is what we expected to happen with eddie cohen.
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We are like a group of brothers. It's like a piece your heart stops.
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That night, our intelligence was intercepted
Order radio from the commander from the Egyptian army,
And I quote,
"We were so attacked by by enemy planes and we scattered."
[ jeffrey weiss] the column commander decided to dig deeper and not advance further
Think like this the front row is much bigger Jewish air power
Opposition if he continues just kind of roar through the desert in broad daylight.
That might be single most important flights
Overall Israeli air force.
They stopped cold Egyptians.
[morris] < > there is a second air strike
Which followed as soon as on May 30
By an American pilot against iraqis.
Iraqi army in the war "48 is the biggest Arab army involved.
They attacked westwards into Israeli territory
and controlled and occupied bank north west.
And this is where Israel messerschmitt attacks them.
Two pilots are on patrol.
Ezer weizman and milton rubenfeld.
This [reubens] came from my father's debate.
"Open was fired with mg and cannon tulkarm police station
And drop the second bomb on the police road.
Made 90 degrees turn north, attack four tanks
Hit registered, tracker, on those four, zero distance. "
This helps persuade the iraqis to squat down
And don't attack Israeli territory then.
[reubens] "there is no flack until it hits right above the tank by two cannon bullets,
One on the left wing and one on the stomach.
The left wing is destroyed,
Going up in the clouds, all the instruments are gone. "</ P>
He realizes that he won't do it can go back to his base.
He saved on the beach.
He saw a number from kibbutznik coming with a shotgun.
Now, remember
Nobody in Israel knows that we have fighter planes that are calm.
All they know is that they are attacked with an Egyptian plane.
They think he's an Arab, so they shoot at him.
He doesn't speak Hebrew.
He raises his arm.
He starts shouting
Yiddish words and names < br /> Jewish food.
"Shabbos! Gefilte fish!
" gefilte fish, gefilte fish. "
" matzo, pesach... "
- "Gefilte fish." - "Gefilte fish."
So hey, they stopped with pitchforks.
[camera clicks]
Combat squadron is at that time
Made entirely foreign volunteers.
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With two important exceptions. Modi alon and ezer weizman.
Modi alon are very cool customers.
Modi alon is a good pilot, really without fear.
[Hebrew language]
[Hebrew speaking]
[lichtman] someday, modi calls us all and says,
"We want to have a badge,
And we want to have a number for our squadron. "
I said," what is the number? " he said," 101.
We want them to think we have a hundred squadrons. "
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They are sitting in a bar on tel aviv,
And someone said, "You know, we need
Logo for combat squadrons."
[lichtman] I said, "let's call ourselves bad luck.
Angel of death."
[jeffrey weiss] there are two veterans from California who volunteered together.
Their names are bob vickman and booth Andrews.
They met on campus from ucla
And they both artists who are very talented.
Stan and bob literally pulled out a cocktail napkin,
And they drew this logo angel of death with flight glasses.
And that symbol on israeli f-16 today.
8:00 am, I'm not sure at that time,
I can feel someone touch me on the shoulder.
"get ready. You will fly."
"What will I fly?" "You will fly me." </ P>
I said, "okay, fine." </ P>
I went into the cockpit and I looked around,
"where is this? Where is this...
I don't know where is this."
Before I fly a warplane in the American air force,
I got at least a hundred hours intensive instruction.
Here I got 35 minutes,
And I was tiring airplane.
Modi said, "let's go," so I gave it throttle, I took off. </ P>
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And I tried to follow it through this fog,
And I could barely see it. </ P>
We looked under us four Egyptian spitfires.
I searched for the vision switch. I looked for everything.
I didn't can find anything.
Modi rolls over,
And I roll over
With my thumb to my tuckus Because I can't shoot weapons.
He made a gap, shot them, and they broke up,
And they got into the fog.
We got 35 minutes of fuel /> on this farshtunken airplane.
Finally, I found the gun button. I found all the switches.
I saw one of them out.
He saw me now, so he made it a half-assed turn.
I drove the tuckus and pulled the trigger, and I see the pieces
Fall into the fog.
And I go back to the base.
They say there is an airplane <br
That was the first murder.
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[newsreader] peace appointments for at least four weeks come to the holy land.
But almost until the hour prepare for troops to start,
Wrath, real war still in progress.
Jews are held in the enriched section new jerusalem and tel aviv
While the arabs are advancing through other parts from Palestine.
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[ jeffrey weiss] the first phase ended successfully
In the sense that the Egyptian has been stopped in the south
and still there is a Jewish country.
And Israel is directed knowing that there will be the second round.
[morris] israel far better organized from arabic countries
And know how to use it, and indeed use cutouts
Which united nations have forced on the side,
To rearm, re-supply, reorganize his forces.
Much better from arab countries.
[craig weiss] volunteers continue to make their way to the country.
These volunteers from abroad are called expensive.
Expensive is Hebrew acronym.
"mitnadvei hutz la & apos; aretz."
"overseas volunteers"
[penslar] expensive is a company that really global.
There are around 3,500 of them from all over the world.
[jeffrey weiss] many are not Jewish,
And about 190 of expensive are volunteers for the air force.
[frankel] they come from Canada,
From England,
From South Africa,
Everyone comes for different reasons.
[morris] arrivals in israel from large groups
From volunteers or allies has a tremendous impact.
Israeli residents understand that they are not alone,
If you like it, vice versa for Jews in the holocaust who feels alone,
and alone.
[penslar] they have expertise very few people in israel do.
Land crew, radio technician...
Every individual expensive participant has potential
To contribute for war effort
Far above and beyond even their experience in world war ii.
[lichtman] during the period of ceasefire weapons they brought us into this
Small hotels are called hotels le parc.
And they are partying!
Beautiful girls, friends, soldiers... </ p >
And I think, this is a great war.
[playing cheerful music]
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We are famous for being evil.
We don't see for problems, but we always look for action.
The combat squadron has this red baseball cap.
Whenever the bar owner sees the hat coming, he will call the police.
We used to steal the jeep because we don't have a vehicle.
We call it moonlight takeover.
Someone will come with the tow chain
And hook it to the jeep and pull it out via base
And that's how we our vehicle.
Somehow or other, modi alon can to unite us.
He has to put it up with a lot of nonsense.
[ Lichtman laughs] One night we arrived got bombed
That we took a large urn or something and threw it against the mirror. </ P>
Someone exits bar behind at parc hotel
which modi makes us pay...
Collectively. </ P>
Here are some shticks that we usually pull.
We used to draw all kinds of items.
[frankel] I like to get dizzy.
He is special.
[lichtman] leon frankel it's legal.
Torpedo bombers in the Navy.
He won the highest medal, navy cross. </ P>
Handsome. </ P>
We are all shtuppers,
But he's right primo shtupper.
[frankel] I have a partner girlfriend there,
And I don't know if that is my appearance, or my status,
Or what is that attracts them,
But we succeed very well, and...
Well, that's about all I can say about that.
[penslar] many volunteers, most of them, no speaking hebrew.
Many of the people of Israel did not speak English very well.
Social relations between them can
[lichtman] I don't think israelis too happy with us,
Because we are busy.
Share them, that a different experience. It's a difficult life.
The economy is not well established.
There is great poverty there, and there are shortcomings.
And the new country still absorbs /> tens of thousands of survivors.
[livingston] I met this girl at the hotel parc.
Conflicts appear, when that comes </ p >
Will I settle down in Israel.
I said, "no, I'm a yankee. American."
"Well, you are a Jew. " I said, " I can be an American and a Jew, right? "
I said," I am here to help you. "
" You can help us by helping us grow. "
I said," I help you become an entity. Isn't that enough? "
I don't know that that I am one of them.
Or I don't admit it.
[speeding gun]
[morris] on July 8,
The Egyptians broke cease first weapon.
Then Israel goes to attack.
[speeding fast]
[bomb explodes]
[jeffrey weiss] air force plan is to have it this lightning attack
Right at the beginning from the next round battle
To pursue the most forward Egyptian bases in El-Arish,
And to drop their aircraft on the ground.
Lou Lenart returned to the mission.
Bob vickman is one from the other pilots.
Stan Andrews becomes part of that mission too.
He and Bob leave < br /> to fly together.
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[engine starts]
Andrew's plane, as these planes often do, the ground is circled while taking off,
And he's finally in a cloud of dust. </ p >
Three planes left are formed, go south,
But they are already finished valuable fuel
While waiting for Andrews situation must be completed,
And must return before reaching the target.
I fly low, south, and I see a ship troops
Dismantling supplies and troops at the port of gaza.
I turn left and come,
And my other two planes follow me.
And I dive on the boat.
My number is two...
Wash it.
A person American child.
[jeffrey weiss] Bob vickman plane jump into the sea.
[craig weiss] booth destroyed by
His good friend has been lost in this mission,
And committed itself to do everything in his power
To find bob, live or die.
He said, "I came here with bob , and I didn't leave without him. "
Tragically, he finally kept that promise
Because the plane also crashed, and his body didn't found.
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[jeffrey weiss] one of al schwimmer The big coup was to buy
Three b-17 bombers,
And he smuggled them overseas through florida
And managed to get it to czechoslovakia.
So then there was this great debate. What did do with this b-17?
Did we just fly it to Israel?
And we actually use it to attack the arabs
Before they make their way into the country?
[craig weiss] Egypt has bombed Israel all this time.
Cairo was never bombed before.
Schwimmer himself has become a pilot twa,
And some others have become commercial pilots so too.
[engines start]
So when they fly to Cairo,
The radio is dead from the traffic control tower at the airport of Cairo
Requesting the plane to identify itself. </ P>
One of the pilots said, "oh, this is flight 38.
Kami masuk. " dan mereka dihidupkan lampu landasan pacu
Di Bandara untuk b-17 ini,
Yang tentu saja memberondong dan mengebom area Kairo hasil dari.
[bom meledak]
Satu bom jatuh dekat istana raja farouk,
Dan secara psikologis itu dibuat sangat sangat mendalam kesan pada orang Mesir.
[simon] keesokan harinya, ribuan kiri cairo.
Mereka merasa itu terlalu berbahaya.
[jeffrey weiss] dan israel, pada saat itu, nyata, pasukan bomber yang kredibel,
Yang tidak dimiliki orang lain.
Untuk ronde ketiga pertempuran, tujuan adalah untuk menggantikan
Orang Mesir sekali dan untuk selamanya dari negev.
[tembakan]
[Goldstein] kami memiliki kontingen tentara di sana
[livingston] they do not have a gun. </ P>
You can not go by sea.
you can not transport it.
They should be flown.
It is the mission Schwimmer.
And he put the air strip above the sand.
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We bring them in. Please We bring every screwdriver.
[penslar] they will have actually die of starvation
If not for supplies brought into
really, though, the whole survival of community negev
Is it because of the air force.
[livingston] we will take off of tel aviv.
We will bring palmachnik at.
Kami akan membawa palmachnik di.
Take the injured, fly them back.
These people are genuine warriors
Who took it for the country. A tough person.
Many of them are refugees too, by the way, from Europe.
They are happy
For give what they give for this.
I go down and I see these children.
Can't believe it.
They can only be equipped with what we can equip them with. </ P>
[livingston] I have conversations with a girl. </ P>
</ P>
I thought about my own sister, my younger sister about the same age at that time. </ P>
Use a gun.
Jesus
[lichter] para arabs, if they're in trouble, they can go home.
And live to fight another day.
Israel doesn't able to lose, and they know it.
They are willing to give their lives.
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October 16... I remember that day very well.
I am heading out over my own negev,
And I come this engagement.
I saw me 109 just behind the spitfire tapped the piece.
Then I looked to the left and see the others Egyptian spitfire shots.
The moment I walk around, he is a small speck in the sky halfway to Cairo.
Dan tiba-tiba, mesinnya mulai berlari kasar.
So I saw in the oil gauge,
And it read zero.
In all of the years I flew I have never seen an oil gauge reads zero.
And then I start smells of smoke.
And I say, "leon,
You're more good looking for a place to go down because you won't succeed. "
[loud knock]
I just cleaned orange garden,
Gliding forward, riding on his nose,
Then back to the ground. I got a face full of dirt.
I know < br /> I have to go west and north
To go from the Jordan line.
Come to the road, I see a truck with soldiers in it .
I know what happened for other fallen pilots,
Some of them,
And I didn't go to take prisoners.
I took out my gun.
Well, if it's Jordan , I will take five of them and save the last bullet for me.
About 50 meters away, I hear Hebrews talking.
So I jumped out and started waved my hand
The moment I arrived to the air base,
I could see there an airplane caught fire.
I asked someone what it was. They said, "oh that's one from the pilot."
That's good modi alon < br /> or ezer weizman.
Ezer's parents, they entered my room, hysterically, both of them.
"apakah putraku meninggal? Apakah putraku tewas? "
I said, "no, he is still alive. He lives. He lives."
[frankel] turns out to be modi alon .
[in Hebrew]
That is horror.
[frankel] destroying. Destroying.
We feel that we really lose our leader.
[playing piano music]
It's like losing our heart.
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And like us leaving the cemetery,
I was behind from a jeep.
I started go be shocked.
And my limbs won't move. I...
I feel...
Really paralyzed.
So they took me to the hospital in Jaffa.
We got some replacement pilots, so I don't feel like that
Leave the squadron in all forms of danger.
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[jeffrey weiss] volunteers are always free to go.
The Israelis realize they will need as soon as possible
To train local residents to be able to survive this weighs on themselves.
Dani shapira is a very interesting young Israeli pilot.
[shapira] some of us sent to czechoslovakia
To practice as soon as possible to fly back to israel.
We heard that some from volunteers,
They leave the country
Have a family, you know, and come back.
I said to people, "We will never give up.
We must learn as soon as possible
So there won't be other disasters. "
[lichter] in November, they asked me to go back to czechoslovakia
And train some pilots Israel is trained in Czechoslovakia. </ P>
[jeffrey] George lichter is not afraid. </ P>
He is not afraid to ride time and time again
On that plane someone else is pretty scary.
One day a man arrived who looks, you know, tough.
He said, "I'm George Lichter.
I came to see who can afford
To fly a fighter and who doesn't.
In fact, we didn't sleep that night, you know. I was very scared.
He flew with me one flight.
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He said, "do this, turn left, turn right.
Kiosk, spin... "
I'm back,
And I made a good landing. George Lichter said , "now...
You describe those people
What to do, what to avoid."
[jeffrey weiss] Czechoslovakia agrees to sell a group of world ii war spitfires to israel.
[lichter] spitfire can climb like an angel, it's really great plane,
And they asked me to fly with spitfires to israel
So they could enter the war immediately.
We are short of two pilots,
And I recommend that we take these students.
They are basically beginners. They are beginners.
[shapira] more experienced pilots,
They talk to us like if we go to get killed.
They say, "it's very dangerous .
You don't have any experience flying in bad weather. "
I said to moti, " let's shut up.
They won't put us into formation if we will say that we are afraid to fly. "
So I said nothing.
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It's very cold, you know. I'm cold. My hands are frozen.
They fly on my wing.
Moti on one wing and dani shapira on the other.
[Shapira] as soon as we arrive to the cloud, everything is messed up.
I'm close to George,
And suddenly I lost sight of him because of the clouds.
To avoid a collision, I turned a little to the right
To open the room.
Suddenly I'm alone.
I see my homemade horizon move.
And I lost height.
Somehow, he understands missing from the group.
I went down looking for it.
My airspeed is building.
[shapira] I don't know how to recover it.
And I know, "dani....
That's it. You will die. "
[lichter] I am very concerned how I will find that little speck.
[shapira] and suddenly, He sees me </ p >
Much lower, you know, tendrils.
I saw George say, "come here, come here!"
I can see his mouth "Come here!"
He picked me up and he brought me back.
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He saved my life.
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He believes that we will succeed.
And we succeed.
[lichter] we succeeded.
[shapira] the next day, the Israeli army pushed the Egyptian army back.
And the spitfires take a big part.
[speeding gun]
We really fought and won at this time.
As a Jew, I now feel proud to be Jewish.
[simon] the last phase of the war came from December 22.
It was a great battle,
And the air force entered all that it has against the Egyptians.
B-17 and spitfires and c-46s.
[speeding gun]
That's right really hard work, you might say.
[bomb explodes]
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[morris] war & apos; 48 ends
When israelis is surrounded Egyptian soldiers,
Which is concentrated at the gaza strip,
Forcing Egyptians to stop
And to call for a truce.
United countries security council set up that the last truce
will be < br /> on January 7, 1949.
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The 1948 war was the most historically significant israel-arab warfare.
This is an extraordinary blow to the Arab world,
And remembered like that to this day.
This is also significant because during the war,
Palestinian communities were basically destroyed,
And 700,000 Palestinians were moved from their homes and became refugees,
And this is the second the consequences of war.
The palestinian, to this day,
Seeing it as a disaster, or in Arabic, nakba.
[morris] that a very difficult war.
Nearly 1% of the population were killed,
So that very, very difficult and extended war.
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The people who fought in 1948 were brought
Creation Israeli state.
For most of them, this is the golden moment of their lives.
[Crowds shouting and cheering]
[shapira] on March 14, 1949, there was a big parade.
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I received my wings.
I shed tears in my eyes.
This is my wish.
A long time, when I was little.
Now I am pilot
In the Israeli air force. In my air force. In my country.
[sighs]
[President Shimon cancels] To train a pilot takes years.
And there comes a group...
Experienced,
Volunteers,
Who is risking their lives,
Who is risking their passports.
They are fighting,
They are trained, they build...
That is a blessing from God.
[livingston] when I come back,
My father will boast
To his patient and his colleagues
About "my son who saved Israel."
[chuckles]
That changed my whole life.
That made me mensch.
I did something good!
For once. </ p >
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[lichtman] there is an image I stand up next to ben-gurion.
My father, he used to kvell
He likes it.
My father used to be to see me
Type came out from the side...
You know, like this.
What did he do do next?
When I went to school, I got bad grades I never broke a book!
I know both of them very, very proud.
[goldstein] the best days.
When we built the air force.
We started the air force.
[interviewer] during difficult times, did you feel that israel will survive?
Somehow, yes, and I will tell you why.
Israel is an article faith.
[wind blowing]
[lichter] I feel more at home in israel than I did
In the United States. I feel, this is my home.
When I returned with my wife to israel.
We are four pairs and one small apartment.
We share everything.
Doors open.
I don't remember locked doors < br /> in those days.
The happiest days in my life.
I was born to be here, at that time history.
To contribute to Israel's survival.
And that's the most important important thing I did in my life.
[frankel] we have great words in yiddish, it's "bashert."
It's destined. This should be.
Maybe God saved us in world war ii
So that we can come to israel and help
Remains of from people we survive.
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Shortly before I left Israel,
I happened to be on tel aviv
When they brought in refugees from death camp in Europe.
I remember they began to gloom on their hands and knees and kissed the ground.
I know right then
That's the reason I came.
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[playing violin]
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