Talk:Operation Focus

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Hello I'm new here, but I have many details I can add to this article (some already added), all from a book written about it by Dani shalom, called "Like a Bolt Out of the Blue" (in Hebrew "KeRa'am BeYom Bahir"). Thank you.

Greenlad 02:54, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Idleguy, about your claim

"number of aircraft destroyed still seems a tad high compared to other sources. will do more research before modifying"

I'll wait for your findings. I think the book is a reliable source, given that it's not Danni Shalom's first book regarding the Israeli airforce. I tend to believe the data given by the IAF and by Arab sources which helped him with the book (at least the Egyptian ones).

Also there's the calculation - Number of aircrafts before, and number after...

Greenlad July 7, 2005 18:34 (UTC)

I, too, am uneasy with the numbers. The Egyptian air force of nearly 500 planes was destroyed, 600 planes (total) destroyed in another place in the article, but (elsewhere, several times) 452 planes were destroyed, being essentially all of three air forces? Several hundred planes seem to be missing.

Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 15:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mismatches within the article.

Talk:Six-Day_War#Number_of_Israeli_aircrafts is one.

Operation_Focus#June_5.2C_1967 : They returned to Israel, were "quick-turned" in an incredible 7½ minutes, and departed in a second wave that attacked 14 Egyptian bases doesn't agree with Operation_Focus#Totals_by_waves : Second wave (9:30am): 164 flights; 16 airfields were attacked; 107 Egyptian aircraft destroyed; 2 Syrian planes destroyed in dogfights Tintin (talk) 13:43, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe the remaining two airfields weren't Egyptian. Jordanian and Syrian airfields were also hit during the first and mainly the second wave.--ArnoldPettybone (talk) 03:51, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

If anybody could explain to me the relevance of the Israel template on the right that would be great. If think it should be replaced with a battle template.--ArnoldPettybone (talk) 03:51, 5 January 2008 (UTC)