[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

The cover story of the issue I just got of Military History Quarterly is about the October War, it’s okay, the issue isn’t shown on the website yet.

http://www.historynet.com/magazines/mhq

https://www.google.com/search?q=seventh%20brigade%201973

http://www.eze33.com/brigade/barak.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Sinai 1973:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sinai%20battle%201973

Here’s a photo of the big prefab pontoon bridge Israel had engineered and built a few years earlier, then stashed in the Sinai, just in case an offensive across the Canal was ever needed — and whaddayaknow, turned out that it was; I believe the IDF also captured at least one of the Egyptian bridges and used that as well:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?166729-The-Israeli-bridge-helped-1973-to-first-crossing-of-Suez-Canal-quot-Operation-Gazelle-quot