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Idi Amin Part 6: The Entebbe Raid

Real Dictators

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The 106 Hostages Must Be Rescued and Spirited Away - Operation Thunderbolt

Military strategists work on a plan involving or big military transports. These hercules, aircraft can not only carry troops, but deliver a small contingent of vehicles and armored cars. Getting the planes into uganda undetected will not be easy. They will have to fly under a hundred feet off the ground, the whole way at night, blind, at 400 miles per hour for almost two and a half thousand miles. A return trip such as this cannot be done without re fueling.

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