Then-President Nixon created an ingenious plan to help Israel successfully fight off the Arab armies some 50 years ago. The plan was known as 'Operation Nickel Grass.'
The Biden administration is rushing munitions, an aircraft carrier battle group and warplanes to help Israel fight the Hamas terrorists who launched the devastating mass attack that has left so much horror. The U.S. action is reminiscent of an earlier White House push that helped save the Jewish State 50 years ago.
years ago my grandfather, President Richard Nixon, ordered the Pentagon to send 'everything that can fly' to aid Israel as she came under a surprise attack in what would become the Yom Kippur War,' notes President Nixon's grandson, Chris Cox. 'The invading Egyptian and Syrian armies were repelled in less than a month.
The airlift shipped 22,395 tons of military equipment, including tanks, to Israeli forces in a matter of weeks, but perhaps the most unusual triumph was the ingenious way the administration was able to resupply Israel with warplanes. The Europeans refused to allow U.S. fighter jets to transit their territory, except for Portugal permitting refueling in the remote Azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The planes, A-4 Skyhawks, took off, were refueled by tankers from USS John F.
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