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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.
10 (110) Oktober 2023. 1016. Mordechai Alon – der Held der israelischen Luftstreitkräfte. 1948 errang die neu gegründete israelische Luftwaffe (IAF) im Unabhängigkeitskrieg ihre ersten Siege über die arabischen Aggressoren. Zu den neuen IAF-Piloten gehörte Mordechai „Modi" Alon.
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. The Egyptians had been stalled by a blown bridge 32 km ...
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. A German pilot ...
29. Mai 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...
21. Juni 2022 · Die vier Maschinen wurden von jüdischen Freiwilligen geflogen, durchweg von ehemaligen Piloten – Ezer Weizman (dem späteren Staatspräsidenten Israels) und Modi Alon von der Royal Air Force, Lou...
Four of these flew the squadron's first mission on 29 May 1948, strafing the Egyptian ground forces near Ad Halom, in the prelude to Operation Pleshet. 101 Squadron was responsible for the Israeli Air Force's first aerial victories on 3 June 1948, when Modi Alon, after taking off from Herzliya Airport, shot down a pair of Royal ...
