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Sep 25, 2009 · In 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers in Somalia were on a mission to capture two lieutenants of a Somali warlord. Through the night, in the longest sustained fighting by American troops since Vietnam, they battled thousands of armed Somalis. By morning, 18 Americans were dead.
Feb 1, 2021 · Black hawk down. by. Bowden, Mark. Publication date. 1999. Topics. United States. Army, Etats-Unis. Army, Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993, Somalie -- 1992-1995 (Intervention internationale), Mogadishu (Somalia) -- History -- 20th century, Somalia -- Mogadishu, Mogadiscio (Somalie)
Hawk to Black Hawk every time they boarded the birds. Now spin-ups like this were routine and usually amounted to nothing. Waiting for the code word for launch, which today was „Irene,“ they were a formidable sum of men and machines. There were four of the amazing AH-6 Little Birds, two-seat bubble-front attack
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Feb 21, 2012 · Black Hawk down. by. Mark Bowden. Publication date. 2000. Topics. Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12. Publisher.
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The action was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they spent a long and terrible night fighting thousands of armed Somalis.
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War is a 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden. It documents efforts by the Unified Task Force to capture Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, and the resulting battle in Mogadishu between United States forces and Aidid's militia.
