
The Six Day War: Israel vs Egypt
In June 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike into the Sinai against Egyptian forces, opening one of the fastest armored campaigns of the twentieth century. This episode of Greatest Tank Battles reconstructs the fighting through battlefield reenactments, archival film, maps, and interviews with military historians who break down the tactics on both sides. It follows the Israeli Defense Force's armored divisions as they punch through Egyptian lines in the Sinai, tracing how speed, air superiority, and tank doctrine let Israel overwhelm a numerically larger opponent in days rather than weeks. The film examines Egyptian defensive positions and commanders' decisions under pressure, showing where their armor and infrastructure broke down. Specific engagements and unit movements are laid out with terrain maps, giving a clear sense of how the campaign unfolded hour by hour rather than as a vague summary. It sits within a wider series on decisive tank battles, and treats the Sinai fighting as a case study in how quickly a modern armored war could be decided in 1967.