YOM KIPPUR WAR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Images of the conflict that initially checked Israeli military power, and led to the Camp David Accords.

60 press photographs, dated 1973, various sizes (most approx. 180 x 230 mm., some larger and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of American and British press agencies. (A few images lightly creased at margins.)

The collection contains photographs of both the southern front in the Sinai and the northern front in the Golan Heights. There are a number of images depicting the build up to the war, one showing an Egyptian officers’ conference in the Gaza Strip, Egyptian armour dug in along the Gaza Strip border, and the United Nations Emergency Force packing up equipment in their bases along the Egypt-Israel border after Nasser demanded their withdrawal. The majority of the photographs show Israeli troops, Egyptian PoWs and destroyed Egyptian materiel.

The international dimension is depicted with images of a Soviet destroyer arriving in Suez in October 1967, while another shows the American aircraft carrier, USS Intrepid, sailing through the Suez Canal en route to Vietnam.

Also included are a number of photographs showing the War of Attrition that ensued post The Six-Day War. Of note is an image of the Israeli destroyer INS Eilat, which was sunk by Egypt using anti-ship missiles on 21 October 1967, while there are several photographs of oil refinery fires in Suez City started by Israeli artillery shelling in retaliation. Some document the effects of the War of Attrition on civilians, with Egyptians crowding onto a train evacuating them from the Suez Canal Zone while another shows Israelis leaving an air raid shelter.

22 images are reproductions of press photographs, but seemingly used by various media with various associated markings.