PPT Slide
The situation desperate, the IDF launches fighter-bombers to strafe and bomb the Egyptian Armored Columns now just a few miles away from the capital city of Israel....
But they are shot down in horrendous numbers....
Avi Zeira was one of thousands of Israeli Soldiers who rushed to the front in a frantic call-up of every able-bodied person in the country:
"I was so angry that we were surprised," Zeira says. "I was really angry, too, that they had better weapons and we didn't know about it. I watched as they just shot our planes out of the sky, leaving us without cover."