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Title
Sinai Front: Chinese Farm
Description
Prior to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, the Israelis developed a plan for a forced crossing of the Suez Canal. This plan, designated Operation Stout-Hearted (Mivtza Abirey Lev), was the brain child of Major General Ariel Sharon when …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1973-10-17
Scenario#
6
Scenario Description
Prior to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, the Israelis developed a plan for a forced crossing of the Suez Canal. This plan, designated Operation Stout-Hearted (Mivtza Abirey Lev), was the brain child of Major General Ariel Sharon when he then served as the commanding general of Southern Command. As fate would have it, General Sharon was now to play an intergal part in the operation he devised. His Udgat was to make the initial thrust across the canal, to then be followed by Major General Adan's Ugdat. In addition to the crossing, two of Sharon's Armored Brigades, the 14th and 600th, were ordered to capture and hold the Tirtur-Lexicon crossroads (northeast of the crossing point) at the Chinese Farm to prevent the bridgehead from being cutoff from the north. The “Chinese Farm”, an agricultural facility built by the Egyptians prior to the 1967 Six Day War, was in actuality erroneously named by the Israelis. They mistook the Japanese writing on the side of the equipment (Japan supplied most of the equipment as foreign aid) as Chinese; the name stuck. The Egyptians were using the Chinese Farm as a refit staging area for its 16th Infantry and 21st Armored Divisions after their trashing during the Egyptian offensive of October 14th. The Israeli 14th Armored Brigade was initially repulsed on 10/16/73, and the Israeli 35th Paratroop Brigade was then sent in on l0/l7/73 to clear the area in a night engagement. A bloody battle ensued, and as morning broke the paratroopers were still engaged as the two Israeli Armored Brigades reasserted their attacks. Eventually that day, the Egyptian forces were compelled to retreat from the complex or face certain destruction. The northern approach to the crossing was secured.
Location
Deversoir, Egypt
Battle Narrative
The Battle of the Chinese Farm took place during October 15 to October 17, 1973 between the Egyptian Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), as part of the Yom Kippur War. It was fought in the Sinai Peninsula, north of the Great Bitter Lake and just east of the Suez Canal, near an Egyptian agricultural research station. The area was known to the Israeli military as the Chinese Farm – a misnomer resulting from the research station's use of Japanese-made equipment. (Japanese Kanji characters on machinery at the farm were mistaken by Israeli observers for Chinese Hanzi.
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Combatants
Israeli
Egyptain

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