In The Way It Used To Be, Wretchard cites a Jerusalem Post story about the rescue of Israeli hostages in Entebbe, Uganda thirty years ago:
It’s a story packed with derring-do. Israeli commandos, impersonating Idi Amin, retake the airport, rescue the hostages being held by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the German Baader-Meinhof Gang, kill the enemy, refuel their aircraft from enemy stocks (their escape C-130 only had fuel to get there) and destroy the Ugandan airforce to prevent pursuit.
He notes that “practically all of it would be ruled illegal today.”