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Mordechai "Modi" Alon (17 January 1921 – 16 October 1948) was an Israeli fighter pilot who with the formation of the Israeli Air Force in May 1948, assumed command of its first fighter squadron. Flying the Avia S-199 , Alon participated in the IAF's first combat sortie on 29 May 1948, and on 3 June scored the IAF's very first ...
Israeli pilot Mordechai “Modi” Alon, flying the number two aircraft, swerved off the runway at Ekron in what would be the first of many S-199 gear-demolishing ground loops.
Alon and Lou Lenart shared informal command of the new squadron back in Israel. On May 29, Lenart, Modi Alon, Ezer Weizman, and Eddie Cohen took off from Ekron at 19:45 with two 70-kg bombs each, bound for an Egyptian army column near Ashdod - in fact, a mere 20 km south of Ekron itself.
29 mag 2023 · There were four pilots on the four planes from 101 Squadron, the first fighter squadron of the IDF that was formed during the battles of the War of Independence: Modi Alon, who was appointed as...
Another of the four pilots, Modi Alon, shown in the center in sunglasses next to Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion in 1948. Wikimedia Commons. Outnumbered Israeli troops managed to...
30 mag 2023 · The third pilot was Modi Alon, an Israeli-born pilot who had volunteered for the Royal Air Force during the British Mandate of Palestine. And the fourth was Eddie Cohen, a South African fighter...
Pilots Lou Lenart, Gideon Lichtman and Modi Alon. In 1948, the new nation of Israel seemed to face certain destruction after the British pulled out of Palestine. Above and Beyond is a...
