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 ...

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 ...

The eight U.S. armed forces servicemen killed during Operation Eagle Claw. Air Force photo. ... Sgt. Maj. Angel Macias, a founding member of Delta Force, dead at 80 Sgt. Maj. Angel Macias, ...

How the Army's elite Delta Force pulled off a record-setting mission against the Taliban only weeks after 9/11. ... But Gecko showed that the sacrifices during Eagle Claw weren't in vain.

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 ...

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.