A plan to free American hostages in Iran ended in disaster on April 24, 1980. The tragedy led to an overhaul of U.S. special ...

Editor’s note: On Nov. 4, 1979, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage. Some of the hostages were released, but by April 1980, and after ...

Editor’s note: On Nov. 4, 1979, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage. Some of the hostages were released, but by April 1980, and after ...

The game plan called for three U.S. Air Force MC-130 Combat Talon transport birds carrying 132 Army Rangers and Delta commandos and three U.S. Air Force EC-130 Compass Call planes carrying ...

Wade Ishimoto, retired Delta Force soldier and Operation Eagle Claw veteran, looks at a map of Iran used during the mission. (Blake Stilwell) Dave Hall, a retired Navy SEAL senior chief petty ...

The silver lining behind the cloud of Operation Eagle Claw was that the U.S. special operations community in general, and Delta Force in particular, were restructured, streamlined, and came back ...

"Delta Force," officially known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, is primarily focused on counterterrorism. ... Operation Eagle Claw: During the Iran hostage crisis in 1980, ...

Inside Delta Force: The U.S. Army’s Elite Counter-Terrorism Unit Explained. ... This was known as Operation Eagle Claw, and it was unsuccessful for several reasons.

Delta has become the US's go-to hostage-rescue force, but during its first outing, the Unit's operators were just observers. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

In many ways “Operation Eagle Claw,” the ludicrously ambitious plan to rescue the ... where they were to meet up with U.S. Delta Forces aboard three C-130 transport planes flying in from ...

TEHRAN – Forty-five years ago, on April 25, 1980, the United States launched a covert military operation in the northeastern Iranian Tabas desert dubbed Operation Eagle Claw, aimed at airlifting the U ...