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On June 9, 1982, Israeli F-15s, F-16s, and F-4 Phantoms destroyed 17 of 19 Syrian Soviet-built SAM batteries and shot down over 80 MiGs without a single loss — the greatest air battle since World War II.
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On September 4, 2003, three Israeli Air Force F-15 Eagles flew over Auschwitz-Birkenau, each piloted by a child of Holocaust survivors. Formation leader Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel read over the radio: 'We pilots of the Air Force, flying in the skies above the camp of horrors, arose from the ashes of the millions of victims and shoulder their silent cries, salute their courage and promise to be the shield of the Jewish people and its nation Israel.'
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