Our PM’s visit to Israel
is making all the headlines from the past 2 days. With that I was reminded of
an old movie I had watched very long back. This movie
was about the ‘Operation Thunderbolt’ or Operation Entebbe carried out by the commandos of the Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe
Airport in Uganda in
1976.
After searching the youtube
without knowing the name of the movie, I ended up finding quite a few videos
relating to the same the operation. Finally it was Raid en Entebbe that I was looking for.
Air France Flight 139,
which left Tel Aviv, Israel having 246 passengers. Picking up another 58 passengers
at Athens, the plane is hijacked by 4 terrorists. With a stop of refueling ,
it ends up at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. A successful rescue mission called ‘Operation Thunderbolt’ is carried which
has later been hailed as one of the most daring rescue missions in the world.
‘Raid en Entebbe’ is a movie based on this. You can
watch the movie or the other documentaries to find out how the breath- taking
operation was executed. The quality of the print is not so great on youtube but
just enough for one to get engrossed.
I did not remember any details of the movie from my earlier watch. One thing vivid in my memory was the beautiful
sound track which was used during a very decisive moment in the movie.The commandoes
are in a long flight to Uganda as a part of the operation and they start singing
this song to kill time.
Beautiful soundtrack and an engrossing movie.
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