Dan Tolkovsky

Dan Tolkovsky

Dan Tolkovsky
Allegiance Israel
Service/branch Israeli Air Force
Rank Aluf

Aluf Dan Tolkovsky (born 1922) was the commander of the Israeli Air Force from May 1953 to July 1958.[1] Tolkovsky entered the military in 1943, when the Royal Air Force sent a Jewish unit from Palestine to train at a flight school in Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe). Tolkovsky was the first in his group to complete the course, and went on to serve as a fighter pilot and later in aircraft reconnaissance in Greece during World War II.

Because of his air experience, Tolkovsky would become a founding member of Israeli air power. He first joined Sherut Avir, the short-lived forerunner of the IAF, where he assisted in the procurement of modern military aircraft from Czechoslovakia.[2] He later served as the IAF Commander.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ "Dan Tolkovsky (biographical details)". Cosmos.ucc.ie. http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=35098. Retrieved 2011-12-05. 
  2. ^ 1947 Timeline, IAF Official Site. Accessed June 9, 2006.
  3. ^ Cohen, Eliezer (1993). Israel's Best Defense. New York: Orion Books. p. 504. ISBN 0-517-587904. 

References

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