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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 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...
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.
May 29, 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...
May 5, 2015 · Pilots Lou Lenart, Gideon Lichtman and Modi Alon. In 1948, the new nation of Israel seemed to face certain destruction after the British pulled out of Palestine. Above and Beyond is a...
May 16, 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...
