It eventually re-equipped with Canberras and saw action in the Suez campaign.
The only Canberra shot down during the Suez campaign was a PR7 shot down by a Syrian Gloster Meteor fighter on 6 November 1956, the last day of the war.
Within a month the new government faced the political implications of the Suez campaign, and the vehement anti-Hashemite feelings it provoked.
What he fails to note is that this same frustrated desire in the early and mid-1950's led Israel to undertake the Suez campaign of 1956.
The first Uzis were equipped with a short, fixed wooden buttstock, and this is the version that initially saw combat during the 1956 Suez campaign.
Detailed report on the Suez campaign by Ground Forces Chief of Staff General Beaufre, French Defense Ministry archive (French)
From 1955-57, he did National Service in the RAF and served in Malta during the Suez campaign.
Zaki al-Sakani, the uncle, said he was old enough to remember all of the wars with Israel from the Suez campaign of 1956 on.
Cardinham was one of the flotilla sent to Malta for the Suez campaign.
Since the failure of the 1956 Suez campaign, the end of Empire and the economic decline of the 1970s which culminated in the Winter of Discontent, Britain had been beset by uncertainty and anxiety about its international role, status and capability.