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Modi Alon. 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.
Modi Alon was one of the original pilots of Sherut Avir's Tel Aviv Squadron, which formed in December 1947. The 27-year-old Alon was chosen to be one of the ten pilots to attend S-199 training in Czechoslovakia. On May 6, two Machal volunteers (Lou Lenart and Milton Rubenfeld) and ...
On the new Israeli Air Force's first-ever mission May 29 1948, Lenart and three other pilots — Modi Alon, Ezer Weizman, and Eddie Cohen — took off in a desperate effort to bomb and strafe the...
30 de ene. de 2015 · Jewish American Pilots Fighting for Israel. Share full article. From left, Lou Lenart, Gideon Lichtman and Modi Alon in the documentary “Above and Beyond.”. International Film Circuit. Above ...
29 de may. de 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...
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 ...
16 de may. de 2014 · On the new Israeli Air Force's first-ever mission May 29 1948, Lenart and three other pilots — Modi Alon, Ezer Weizman, and Eddie Cohen — took off in a desperate effort to bomb and strafe the...
