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 ...

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 ...

"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, ...

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 ...

Despite the tragedy, Operation Eagle Claw was the impetus for several critical changes across special operations, including paving the way for the creation of U.S. Special Operations Command in 1987.

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 ...

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 ...