Mohamed Sa’ad Ma’amon’s Egyptian Second Army and Maj.

The reason was that-unknown to the Egyptians-the IDF had been alerted by intelligence from U.S. On the morning of October 10, Reshef’s advance forces were ordered by the Israeli high command to withdraw from the immediate region of the Chinese Farm. Viewing Japanese inscriptions on the walls, Israeli troops, not particularly well versed in East Asian script, named the place Chinese Farm.

The Chinese Farm was an experimental agricultural area used by Japanese instructors before the Six-Day War fought in 1967. Ariel Sharon’s 143rd Reserve Armored Division, along with that division’s reconnaissance unit, Reshef’s advance patrols had reached the so-called Chinese Farm located just north of the Great Bitter Lake, on the east side of the Suez Canal and five miles east of the town of Deversoir, which sits on the west bank of the canal.

During the afternoon of October 9, 1973, Colonel Amnon Reshef, the commander of the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) 14th Armored Brigade, conducted probes along the water’s edge of the Great Bitter Lake, a wide part of the Suez Canal.

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