Shiryon Archive

Tag: history

  • Writing update #12, archive visit!

    This morning I visited the IDF archive for the first time and spent roughly five hours there, I found a few interesting bits of info. First of all regarding H39’s I didn’t find much, however they were internally referred to in the IDF as הוצ’קס, or Hotchkes, on the 21.9.1951 the H39s are no longer…

  • Writing update #8

    While my situation has not changed since the last update, I do believe that after the 11th of this month, I can start working on articles again, I believe that the next article would be more on the Arab armour of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, a part of middle-eastern military history at large left abandoned…