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 ...

Forty years after Eagle Claw, SOF owns the air, land and sea in the areas where they operate. Not many people know about this operation and it was kept quiet for years.

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 ...

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 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, ...

Delta had played a key role in Operation Eagle Claw, the failed attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980. JSOC was created after that mission to centralize and improve US special ...

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.

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 ...