African's still remember the 76 Israeli's

[crause]

Anyone seen the beautiful plaque at Entebbe's old terminal buiding ?

Anyone seen the plaque at the old terminal building with the full story of Operation "Jonathan" on the morning of 4 July 1976?

The modern Ugandan's call it a : "Shinning egsample of the fight againts terrorism and a symbol of mans courage in resisting brutality and evil "

Great history - the Israeli commando's landad at midnight with 4 aircraft after an eight hour flight from Israel? Anyone know what aircraft where used, and how did they get the landing lights on ?

100 Hostages were held at the terminal only Nethanyahu and 4 other Israeli civilians lost their lives, Dora Bloch were executed at the hospital the next morning under President Idi Amins orders.

[The Claw]

The aircraft used were four C-130's and two B-707's. The lead C-130 was granted permission to land after using a fictitious airline call-sign. One C-130 followed behind the lead whilst the other two used a seperate runway. One B-707 orbited Lake Victoria and acted as the command post whilst another remained on standby at Nairobi.

[V1 Rotate]

Great job!

V1:ok: :ok: :ok: :ok:

[Trentino]

Total brilliance. Has anyone seen the movie? Is it accurate?
I would love to be directed to where I can find out more 'maybe in video form?'

not to sidetrack the topic but can anyone elabourate on similar missions?
I remember reading about the FFL flying out of corsica to save French held hostages in The Congo.
If I had another life I would love to be skilled and brave enough to jump in and rescue people like those who where held hostage in the past.

Cheers.

[crause]

The Claw Trentino & V1 rotate thanx for your comments I would like to send you the picture of the old terminal building and the modern plaque that the new Govt has fixed to this historic site , may one of you could then try to get it displayed here.

[EDDNHopper]

Trentino,
not to sidetrack the topic but can anyone elabourate on similar missions?

18 Oct 1977 Mogadishu (Somalia): German special forces free ca. 90 hostages held in a hijacked Lufthansa 737.

[crause]

http://www.specialoperations.com/Counterterrorism/Lufthansa.htm

http://palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_entebbe.php :ok: :ok: :ok: :ok: :ouch:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/terrorism/entebbe.html :ouch: :ouch: :ouch:

http://www.answers.com./topic/operation-entebbe :ok: