WATCH: Revisiting the daring Entebbe rescue mission 49 years later

In a bold overnight mission on July 4, 1976, Israeli commandos flew over 2,500 miles to Uganda, stormed Entebbe Airport under the cover of darkness, killed all hijackers and Ugandan soldiers resisting, and rescued 102 hostages in under an hour—losing only one soldier, Yonatan Netanyahu, in what remains one of the most legendary hostage rescue operations in modern military history.

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