Loud and Clear
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Colonel (Ret.) Muki Betzer, Col. Shay Gilead, Dr. Shimshon Zelniker, Col. (Res.) Roi Manoff, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Zvi Kanor (“cool it down, pal”), Col. Israel Yahalom, and architect Haimi Shnider gave me their personal opinions along the way, and helped me out when I got stuck.
In addition, I want to thank the Palmach Generation Association for information I gathered from the Book of the Palmach. Personal gratitude to Mr. Yoram Sade, the son of the late Maj. Gen. Itzhak Sade, for the permission to use the writings of his father, whom I admire. And special thanks to the Israeli Air Force, and to the head of its history department, Lt. Col. Motti Havakuk, for helping with facts and dates, and for the pictures courtesy of his department. Several other pictures were taken by various friends, and some reached me from men I don’t know. A special thank you I owe to the ministers of the government of Israel, who assembled as a committee and for several months toiled to clean my book of some words and phrases the normal censorship thought harmless, thus furthering the security of my country. I hope it came out clean but not sterile.
I thank them all.
And last but not least, my loving gratitude to my four children, and especially to my daughter Noah, who woke me with an extremely hard question, and to my elder son, Etay, who claimed to be “a spectator from the first row… unfortunately not as a partner but as an admirer or sometimes a spy”—and who knew how to tell me correct words that affected the answer this book is supplying.
And most of all, the one to whom I dedicate this book, the one and only, a person with no hint of falsehood—to Ali.
—Iftach Spector
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Originally published in Hebrew in 2008 as Ram u-varur by Yedioth Ahronoth Books. English edition, translated by Samuel Gorvine, first published in 2009 by Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA
Copyright © 2009, 2010 by Iftach Spector, translation by Samuel Gorvine
Hardcover edition published in 2009. Digital edition 2010.
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Hardcover edition: 978-0-7603-3630-4
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Spector, Iftach, 1940-
[Ram u-varur. English]
Loud and clear : the memoir of an Israeli fighter pilot / by Iftach Spector ; translated by Samuel Gorvine.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7603-3630-4 (hb w/ jkt)
1. Spector, Iftach, 1940- 2. Fighter pilots—Israel—Biography. 3. Air pilots, Military—Israel—Biography. 4. Israel. Hel ha-avir—Biography. 5. Israel. Hel ha-avir—History. I. Title.
UG626.2.S67A313 2009
358.40092—dc22
[B] 2008054532
Designer: Diana Boger
Maps by Phil Schwartzberg, Meridian Mapping
On the cover: Israeli Air Force
On the back cover: The site of the fall, 1964. My poor Ouragan No. 22.
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