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Operation Eagle Claw 1980: The disastrous bid to end the Iran hostage crisis: Raid, cartea 52

Autor Justin Williamson Ilustrat de Jim Laurier, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2020
Following months of negotiations after the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered the newly formed Delta Force to conduct a raid into Iran to free the hostages. The raid, Operation Eagle Claw, was risky to say the least. US forces would have to fly into the deserts of Iran on C-130s; marry up with carrier-based RH-53D helicopters; fly to hide sites near Tehran; approach the Embassy via trucks; seize the Embassy and rescue the hostages; board the helicopters descending on Tehran; fly to an airbase captured by more US forces; and then fly out on C-141s and to freedom. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly given the complexity of the mission, things went wrong from the start and when the mission was called off at the refueling site at Desert One, the resulting collision between aircraft killed eight US personnel. This title tells the full story of this tragic operation, supported by maps, photographs, and specially-commissioned bird's-eye-views and battlescenes which reveal the complexity and scale of the proposed rescue and the disaster which followed.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472837837
ISBN-10: 1472837835
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 184 x 248 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Osprey Publishing
Seria Raid

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

This was a high-risk, very complex operation that turned disastrous and was aborted at an early stage, giving us the chance to reconstruct major 'what-if' parts of the planned raid with bird's-eye-views, cutaways and battlescenes.

Notă biografică

Justin Williamson is a career US diplomat who has served in Iraq, Mexico, Spain, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has degrees from Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at El Paso, and has recently graduated from the US Army Command and Staff College with a Master of Military Arts and Sciences. He is based in Texas, USA.Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000, and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes.He lives in New England, USA.

Cuprins

Introduction /The Crisis /Delta Force /The Plan /Other US Forces /The Mission and Desert One /Disaster /What if? /Epilogue /Further Reading /Index

Recenzii

This is one of the best books to date on the raid