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portada Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independence
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
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Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780811737265
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Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independence

Boaz Dvir (Author) · Stackpole Books · Hardcover

Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independence - Boaz Dvir

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Synopsis "Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independence "

At the opening of its war for independence in 1948, Israel needed weapons, aircraft in particular, and with a U.S. ban on arms sales, it needed a creative solution. Enter Al Schwimmer, who feared a repeat of the Holocaust, and Charlie Winters, the Boston son of Irish immigrants-two Americans with experience purchasing and flying planes in World War II and with sympathy to the Jewish state. Connected to both the aviation industry and the Jewish underground, they arranged to smuggle weapons to Israel, including, ironically, old German Messerschmitt fighters and, more significantly, American B-17 bombers, one of which Winters piloted across the Atlantic himself. Part of a squadron known as The Hammers, the bombers formed the nucleus of the new Israel air force. This pair of American made vital contributions to Israel's victory and independence, and both were later convicted of violating the 1939 Neutrality Act. Schwimmer would be pardoned by Bill Clinton and Winters by George W. Bush, their cause having attracted the support of Steven Spielberg, among others. This is history that reads like a thriller. The participants risked their lives, freedom, and citizenship to prevent what they viewed as a possible second Holocaust, and their story is one of a covert operation involving smuggling, evading the FBI and State Department, connections to underground Jewish intelligence and military groups, and acts of personal bravery in purchasing weapons, ferrying them across thousands of miles, and taking them into combat.

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