Operation Eagle Claw: United states Armed Forces fail to rescue the personnel held hostage in Tehran by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

       [added 11/24/2022]

Subsequent Events:

7/2/1980                   9/9/1980

References:

James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 372.

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Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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