Saad Mamoun
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Saad Mamoun | |
|---|---|
Lieutenant General | |
| Unit | 11th Infantry Regiment |
| Commands held | 17th Mechanized Division (1968–1972) Second Field Army (1972–1975) Central Military Zone (1975–1979) Director of Military Operations Staff and Assistant Minister of Defence for Morale Affairs(1979–1983). |
| Battles/wars | Suez Crisis Six-Day War Yom Kippur War |
war hero who was the commander of the Egyptian Second Army during the Yom Kippur War. He was commissioned in an infantry regiment in 1943 after graduating from the Egyptian Military Academy. He was wounded in action during the Suez War in 1956 as the commander of an infantry anti-Tank battalion. Along with Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy, Hosni Mubarak, Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar and Kamal Hassan Ali, he was one of the heavyweight and close members of President Sadat
's inner circle.
During the
Governor of Cairo until 1983.[1]
References
External links
- http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/nov/4th-round.htm Archived 2009-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
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