Word: phantoms
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...Responding in kind, the U.S. employed giant C-5A, C-130 and C-141 cargo planes to carry 5,000 tons of equipment to Israel. Promising to replace Israel's heavy aircraft losses, the Pentagon began speeding Phantom jet fighters to the war zone. Two U.S. attack carriers and two amphibious assault carriers, each bearing 1,800 Marines, began gathering in the eastern Mediterranean, and some 50 U.S. Air Force personnel were sent to Israel to help with the airlift. President Nixon asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of $2.2 billion for Israeli resupply...
Last February Sadat sent his national security adviser, Hafez Ismail, on a peace mission to Washington and other capitals in an effort to break the diplomatic deadlock. That did not work either; hardly had Ismail left Washington when the U.S. announced that it was supplying Israel with 48 more Phantom jets; Sadat concluded that he could count on nothing from Washington...
...Syrian army that continually rumble through the wide, European-like boulevards or the large numbers of their steel-helmeted soldiers carrying AK-47 automatic rifles along narrow, thousand-year-old alleyways. Some lightheartedly boast that when they hear a jet overhead they know whether it is an Israeli Phantom or one of their own Soviet-built MIG-21s. One Damascene explained: "The Phantom sound is softer. When you hear it, it is already gone...
...first two days of fighting, 40 Israeli planes were shot down near the canal, most of them by SAM6 batteries. The missile was equally devastating over the Golan Heights, protecting the Syrians from the foil fury of the Israeli air force and exacting a heavy toll of F-4 Phantom and Skyhawkjets...
...like M-60 tanks-being transported in Israeli ships. One day last week, the Israeli freighter Aben Dat took on tracked vehicles and other matériel at Norfolk, Va., Naval Station and then put to sea at 4 a.m. Nor do the U.S. figures include 30 F-4 Phantom fighters and 50 A-4 Skyhawk light attack bombers that the U.S. has agreed to give Israel...