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In 1947, two Jewish American World War II airmen, Mike Kaplan and Paul Shatz, had a plan. With two surplus cargo planes, they would fly Holocaust survivors over the British Naval blockade, set up to prevent the victims from reaching Palestine. Before the plan could be executed, a greater urgency arose. The United Nations voted to partition Palestine, and five Arab nations with a combined population of over 60 million, vowed to annihilate the virtually unarmed 600,000 Jews living there when the British withdrew. Kaplan and Shatz had to get weapons to the Jews to defend themselves. Kaplan and Shatz increase their fleet to twelve cargo planes, and gathered a volunteer crew of Jewish World War II pilots to fly them. They were called Machalniks, the Hebrew acronym for Volunteers from Abroad. Only Czechoslovakia was willing to sell them armaments. Facing fines, prison, and the loss of their citizenship for breaking the MidEast Arms Embargo, and with their aircraft about to be confiscated by the U.S. Treasury Department, the pilots whisked the planes out of the country. Reaching the munitions supplier, the Machalniks began a clandestine smuggling operation, flying arms to Palestine. On May 29, two weeks after Israel proclaimed itself a State, a column of 5,000 Egyptians in tanks and armored cars had advanced to within 15 miles of Tel Aviv. If the city fell, the fledgling State of Israel would cease to exist. Kaplan, a combat seasoned veteran, led three inexperienced pilots in a desperate attempt to stop the advancing enemy. They soared into the sky in untested World War II German fighter planes, their dismantled pieces smuggled into the country by Shatz only days before. Flying the only four combat aircraft the newly created Israeli Air Force possessed, beneath their wings lay the fate of the newborn nation.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780998716428
  • Publisher: PelhamGrp
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 23 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0998716421
  • Publisher Date: 1 October 2017
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 354

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