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Captain Chesley Sullenberger says he doesn't feel comfortable embracing the word hero.

And today we're looking at real life rescue missions where everything was on the line.

These are moments when quick thinking, teamwork and a lot of nerve made the difference between disaster and survival.

These stories don't just rival action movies, they roundly outdo them.

On our broadcast tonight, one by one, the miners trapped for two months are brought to freedom in a rescue mission the whole world is watching.

Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Talk a little bit about why this is still talked about so many years later.

You were saying earlier that, you know, it's not really in history books and schools anymore.

It's the greatest naval war disaster in United States history, happened two weeks before the war ended.

And it's just something that needs to be shared to remind people that freedom is not free.

What happened to the crew of the USS Indianapolis is almost impossible to process in the final weeks of World War II.

The ship had just completed a top secret mission delivering critical components for the atomic bomb when it was suddenly struck by Japanese torpedoes in the Philippine Sea.

The cruiser went down in just 12 minutes.

I just hit the side and swam away from the ship.

I just happened to find a raft and I got aboard 18 guys on my raft.

The guys were fighting each other for a room on the raft.

I'll hang on to somebody that's hanging onto the raft.

For the 900 or so sailors who survived the sinking, the real ordeal was only beginning.

The ship's failure to arrive was overlooked and its distress calls were never properly acted upon.

Salvation came by pure chance when a patrol plane spotted an oil slick and men waving below.

By the time rescuers reached the scene, just 316 sailors were still alive.

Every time he looked around and somebody was gone, the sharks were there.

Apollo 13, it's hard to know deep inside.

Did you think, we're not going to make it?

Oh, I think individually we all thought, holy cow, what happens if we don't get home?

We could either hit the earth in some manner that would make us a fiery meteor.

For a few brief seconds, that didn't sound too bad.

Then we could have missed the Earth completely and probably gone into orbit around the sun.

Houston, we've had a problem with that anonymous call.

In April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was no longer a moonshot.

An explosion tore through the spacecraft, knocking out power, oxygen and water while the crew drifted more than 200,000 miles from home.

Inside the capsule, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert watched the temperature drop and the air slowly turned dangerous.

The LEM water gun was leaking, and we shut that off.

I guess it leaked about a quart of water, I would estimate.

But it took me about two days to get my feet dry.

And of course, I think you were all aware that the temperatures were going down into both vehicles, and

Back on Earth, NASA engineers worked around the clock, racing to solve problems no one had ever planned for.

Every move had to be right, and somehow it was.

After looping around the moon and enduring a tense return through Earth's atmosphere, all three astronauts made it home.

If you had been able to step on the surface of the moon, did you have anything planned or.

By the time the third flight went along, everybody who was going to say something already said it.

So I thought to myself, if I could just get down there and land, they'll be happy.

And so, no, I really didn't plan anything to say.

ENTEBBE RAID the nation of Israel is in an exultant state today following the successful raid by Israeli commandos on the Entebbe airport in Uganda in the early morning hours of this July 4th.

That raid freed more than 100 hostages who had been held aboard an Air France jetliner for more than a week by Palestinian guerrillas.

A routine Air France flight was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, uganda, in the mid-1970s.

Israeli passengers were singled out and held hostage.

In the dead of night, Israeli commandos flew thousands of miles into hostile territory, landing at Entebbe Airport under total secrecy.

Using surprise, deception and overwhelming speed, they stormed the terminal, took out the hijackers, and freed the hostages.

The hostages, many of them Israelis, were taken to Israel, where they enjoyed a tearful reunion with friends and relatives.

The raid brought strong reaction from all over the world.

And here in Miami, Congressman William Lehman gave his unresolved support to the action.

I believe that the United States should support the action that Israel took today.

Tragically, the rescue wasn't without loss.

The unit's commander, Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed along with several hostages.

But against staggering odds, most of the captives were flown safely back to Israel.

Decades later, Netanyahu's younger brother Benjamin would spend years serving as Israel's Prime Minister.

I remember him as a leader when he was 6 years old.

He was warm, he was compassionate, he was considerate, very brave, very smart.

Iranian embassy siege 19 hostages, including the three Britons are safe.

The end came with an assault on the building by the army's Special Air Services Regiment, the sas.

Not long after, gunmen had killed two hostages and pushed the body of one out onto the embassy steps.

In April 1980, a quiet stretch of London was suddenly thrust into crisis when armed militants stormed the Iranian embassy, taking dozens of hostages.

For six days, negotiations dragged on while the world watched, hoping the standoff could end peacefully.

That illusion was shattered when one hostage was killed and his body thrown outside a brutally clear message that time had run out.

In response, Britain's elite SAS unit launched Operation Nimrod.

Storming the building in a lightning fast assau that played out live on television.

He scrambled from the balcony into the adjacent building.

He'd gone to the embassy last Wednesday to get a visa for Tehran with BBC producer Chris Kramer.

Soldiers smashed through windows, descended from the roof and fought room to room in a matter of minutes.

When it was over, nearly all the remaining hostages were alive and the threat was completely neutralized.

A decision had to be taken urgently to avoid further bloodshed.

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