Battle of Chinese Farm
Image of Operation Gazelle (also known as Operation Abiray-Lev or Operation Stouthearted Men) during the Yom Kippur War. Modified to show only the Israeli plan for the operation.
Colonel Abd el-Hamid Abd el-Sami', commander of the Egyptian 16th Infantry Brigade, 16th Infantry Division, during the Yom Kippur War.
Lieutenant General Abd Rab el-Nabi Hafez. He commanded the Egyptian 16th Infantry Division during the Yom Kippur War as a Brigadier General.
Israeli armor knocked out in the Battle at Chinese Farm during the Arab-Israeli War. From the booklet "President Nixon and the Role of Intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War." For more information, visit www.cia.gov/library/publications/historical-collection-pu...
Destroyed Israeli tanks during the Battle of the Chinese Farm in the Yom Kippur War
General Painting brigade combat zone 14 on the night of 15/10/73 (the "Chinese Farm")
Destroyed tank of the Egyptian army on the Sinai, Yom Kippur war or October war, 1973
Destroyed tank of the Egyptian army on the Sinai, Yom Kippur War, October 1973
Photograph of Great Bitter Lake and the Chinese Wall, taken in space
An IDF M60 tank and M113 APC lie destroyed near the Lexicon-Tirtur Junction
בית המשאבות ותעלות ההשקייה במתחם החווה הסינית. נבנה ע"י המצרים לפני מלחמת ששת הימים. החווה הסינית קצת לאחר מלחמת יום הכיפורים.
בית המשאבות ותעלות ההשקייה במתחם החווה הסינית. החווה הסינית קצת לאחר מלחמת יום הכיפורים.
בית המשאבות ותעלות ההשקייה במתחם החווה הסינית. החווה הסינית קצת לאחר מלחמת יום הכיפורים.
בית המשאבות ותעלות ההשקייה במתחם החווה הסינית. החווה הסינית קצת לאחר מלחמת יום הכיפורים.
בית המשאבות ותעלות ההשקייה במתחם החווה הסינית. החווה הסינית קצת לאחר מלחמת יום הכיפורים.
Historical Overview
The Battle of the Chinese Farm took place during October 15 to October 17, 1973 between the Egyptian Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), as part of the Yom Kippur War. It was fought in the Sinai Peninsula, north of the Great Bitter Lake and just east of the Suez Canal, near an Egyptian agricultural research station. The area was known to the Israeli military as the Chinese Farm – a misnomer resulting from the research station's use of Japanese-made equipment, with Japanese writing on the machinery mistaken by Israeli observers for Chinese.
Quick Facts
Israel
- Commander: Ariel Scharon
- Strength: 2 Brigaden
- Casualties: 450
Egypt
- Commander: unbekannt
- Strength: 2 Divisionen
- Casualties: hoch
Strategic Context
Creating a corridor to the Suez Canal.
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