[righttackle44]

In the 1967 Six Day War, a young girl who had been a college classmate of mine the spring semester before, had dual Israeli-American citizenship. When the war began, she was called up. She flew to NYC where she literally sat in the airport waiting room for three days, waiting for a flight priority. (She poured money into a pay phone every couple of hours to find out if she had received one.)

Two days into the fighting, she received her priority. She flew out on El Al. The Israeli Air Force would meet inbound commercial flights over the Mediterranean and escort the planes into Ben Gurion.

When she arrived, she was assigned to a unit that picked up Egyptian POWs, as she was fluent in Egyptian Arabic.

The Israeli Air Force didn't lose one commercial airliner, if I recall correctly.

[Star Traveler]

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