The film focuses on the conflicts of the two German terrorists in the 1976 hijacking and Israeli rescue operation at a Uganda airport. (JTA) – In “7 Days in Entebbe,” which hits theaters on ...

The Entebbe Airport holding the hostages was surrounded by 100 Ugandan soldiers with guns drawn, ready to shoot anyone attempting to free the Israeli travelers. “Operation Thunderbolt,” colloq ...

Planes from the 120th were also instrumental in the famous Operation Entebbe. They operated as flying hospitals to support the evacuation of civilians from Kenya after their initial evacuation ...

Shortly after the plane takes off again, they storm the cockpit and order the pilots to divert, first to Libya and then to Entebbe in Uganda. The operation was carried out by the Popular Front for the ...