PPT Slide
Once across, the tankers overcame local resistance and some determined Egyptian commando attacks on their laagers as they reorganized. They then
quickly fanned out into the open desert, crossing the bridges over the sweet water canals. Here was good tank country at last, resistance scanty and targets plentiful. Their first task was to destroy the Egyptian missile bases to clear the skies for the IAF. During the day, Adan's and Sharon's tankers destroyed every missile site within a perimeter reaching some 20
miles along the western bank, breaking havoc among administrative troops concentrated in the many army camps in the rear zone of the Egyptian armies
now on the east bank in Sinai. As fast as the Egyptians threw in reinforcements, they were destroyed by the roaming Israeli armor. Freed from the threat of the surface-to-air missiles, the IAF blazed away at
anything that moved, sowing destruction galore.