Last weekend we successfully reenacted one of World War II's major skirmishes: The Battle of Stalingrad. It was an awesome time and we'd like to thank everyone who came out for it. We're following it up on November 20 with another great airsoft event. Israeli Special Forces carried out a secretive counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission back in July of 1976 and we're going to recreate the scenario right here on our own battlefield.
It started on June 27 when a plane from Air France that had 248 passengers aboard was hijacked by terrorists from Palestine and Germany who flew it into Entebbe, which is near the Ugandan capital city of Kampala. Aside from a single French citizen, all of the non-Israeli passengers were let go almost immediately.
The terrorists from the organizations Revolutionary Cells and Popular Front made it clear that they would kill the hostages if certain prisoners were not released. Acting on intel from Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, a rescue op was planned and executed. On the night of July 4, transport planes brought in 100 commandos. After spending a week in the planning phase, the operation lasted 90 minutes and resulted in 102 hostages being saved. Five commandos were wounded and Lt. Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, the commander, was killed. Three hostages were unfortunately killed as well. The commandos successfully took down all of the hijackers, 45 Ugandan soldiers and thirty MiG-17 and MiG-21 jets from the Uganda Air Force. A fourth hostage was also killed at a nearby hospital.
Operation Thunderbolt, or Operation Jonathan in remembrance of the unit leader in some circles, is considered by many to be one of the most successful and daring spec ops missions of all time. And we're going to reenact the whole thing on our airsoft field. You're free to use any airsoft guns you want, but we will be employing strict uniform, FPS and gear requirements. Head on over to our official Facebook page for full details. Hope to see you out there!
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