Air Vice Marshal Dr. Gabr Ali Gabr (EAF ret.)
The late Air Vice-Marshal Gabr Ali Gabr, PhD (EAF, ret.) served as a pilot of De Havilland Vampire fighter jets during the Suez War of 1956. After concluding higher military education at the Air Warfare Institute in 1960, he served as Instructor in Air Tactics at the Air Warfare Institute in 1962-1964 and 1966-1967, as Staff Officer during the June 1967 War, Chief of Operational Training Branch in 1968-1973 and as Chief of Operations Group during the October 1973 War with Israel. After serving as Instructor in Art of Operations and as Chief of Air Force Chair at High War College from 1977 until 1982 and receiving his PhD at Nasser High Academy in 1989, he moved into writing and published seven books and dozens of studies and articles on history of air warfare in Egypt and abroad.
Books
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 12 : The First Arab-Israeli War 1 September 1948-15 March 1949 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 11 : Palestine War, 1 June-11 July 1948 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955, Volume 10 : The First Arab-Israeli War Begins, 15–31 May 1948 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 9 : The Arab Air Forces and a New World Order, 1946-1948 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 8 : The Revival in Egypt and Iraq, 1943-1945 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 7 : The Arab Air Forces in Crisis, April 1941-December 1942 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 6 : The World Crisis 1939-March 1941 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 5 : The Arab Air Forces and the Road to War 1936-1939 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 4 : The First Arab Air Forces, 1918-1936 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 3 : Colonial Skies 1918-1936 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 2 : Arab Side Shows, 1914-1918 Author
- Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 1 : Military Flying Services in Arab Countries, 1909-1918 Author
- Wings over Sinai : The Egyptian Air Force during the Sinai War, 1956 Author
