Editing Israeli Air Force (section)

===Six-Day War (1967)===
In three hours on the morning of June 5, 1967, the first day of the [[Six-Day War]], the Israeli Air Force executed [[Operation Focus]], crippling the opposing Arab air forces and attaining air supremacy for the remainder of the war. In a surprise attack, the IAF destroyed most of the [[Egyptian Air Force]] while its planes were still on the ground. By the end of the day, with surrounding Arab countries drawn into the fighting, the IAF had mauled the [[Syrian Air Force|Syrian]] and [[Jordanian Air Force|Jordanian]] air forces, striking as far as [[Iraq]]. After six days of fighting, Israel claimed a total of 452 Arab aircraft destroyed, of which 49 were aerial victories.

After the IAF's impressive performance in the Six-Day War, the [[Lyndon Johnson]] administration decided to sell [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|F-4 Phantom]] fighters to Israel in 1968, marking the first sale of American military equipment to Israel.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/phantom.html|title=The 1968 Sale of Phantom Jets to Israel|last=Mitchell G. Bard|encyclopedia=[[Jewish Virtual Library]]|access-date=February 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811195948/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/phantom.html|archive-date=August 11, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>