The newspaper Maariv reported today that Israeli pilots will participate in Uganda’s seventh independence day celebrations by flying planes that the East African nation recently purchased from Israel. According to the report, the planes are the Dakota DC-3 and the Fouga Magistere, respectively American- and French-built military transports.
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