Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "How to Build a Navy - Planning, Procurement, Production, Logistics" video.
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@Gustav_Kuriga It's hard to say how much of this is true and how much isn't. The thing about History is there are all kinds of things just like this - which really did happen - but ... there are also so many things which have been distorted.
This is the reference I was able to find:
" Iraq sent 6th Armoured Brigade, 8th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and 3rd Armoured Division piecemeal in the heat of the battle. 12th Armoured Brigade arrived on 15 along with a Special Forces Brigade (3 Battalions). This just added to the confusion. There was no planning of how to use these troops and no coordination. Iraqis were simply told to ‘go forward and fight’"
https://web.archive.org/web/20090116071541/http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/nov/4th-round.htm
O,Balance, Edgar. No Victor, No Vanquished: The Yom Kippur War (San Rafael, California & London: Presidio Press, 1978) p. 195
"No Victor, No Vanquished: The Yom Kippur War by Edgar O’Balance.
A well balanced account of the events of 1973 war, not biased towards
any party. O’Balance visited the battlefield three years after the
war and met many officers on both sides who participated in war." - Hamid Hussain
No Victor, No Vanquished: The Yom Kippur War Hardcover – June 1, 1991
by Edgar O'Ballance
https://www.amazon.com/No-Victor-Vanquished-Yom-Kippur/dp/0891410171
So, while there is a reference to the basic point of my story, I do seem to be in error about the whole of the Iraqi contribution to the war being wiped out and have noted that error in the post above - but - I couldn't comment for sure whether or not individual Iraqi units - such as the unit in question - were wiped out - or seriously depleted.
And - that is the trouble with incidents recited in YouTube posts - from memory. The thing to do with any YouTube post if you have a serious interest in it - would be to research it yourself. After all - I DID say it was a story.
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