Entebbe:Operation Thunderbolt

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…aware of the excitement in Israel, and throughout the free world, over what they had done this night. It was a mid-morning when a Hercules transport of the Israel Air Force touched down at Ben Gurion International Airport, rolled to a stop and opened its rear ramp to release its cargo of men, women and children into the outstretched arms of their relatives and friends and of a crowd of thousands. The ordeal was over.