Interesting Pic (Desert One)

[OzMan]

I was surfing around the Air Force Link website, and came across this picture, from the original Delta Force mission in Iran. Hope this isn't a repost.

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/040421-F-0000S-001.jpg

FILE PHOTO -- Then-Capt. Michael Sumida poses with the crew of the attempted rescue mission of 66 American hostages from Iranian militants.

http://www.af.mil/photos/media_search.asp?q=38th%20rescue&page=42

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/web/web_040421-F-0000S-002.jpg

MANAS AIR BASE, Kyrgyzstan -- Col. Michael Sumida stands in front of a C-130 Hercules on the flightline here. The colonel was a C-130 navigator on the attempted mission to rescue hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980. April 24 and 25 mark the 24th anniversary of the attempt. He is the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing vice commander.

[SoliDeoGloria]

Interesting picture, thanks.

[muttbutt]

well that is interesting, thanks for that.

[goat89]

Interesting. Thx!

[saBBBat]

So those guys would be the Air Force crew members?

[MPNFL]

is that Eric Haney third from the left in the first pic??

[vinny_121_ND]

is that Eric Haney third from the left in the first pic??

haney? Maybe, apparently nobody in the delta community seems to want to have anything to do with him. Well, the Unit's just a really bad show, too much drama, and not enough shooting, and doing the basics of what the unit should be doing.


Anyhow, nice pics.

[muttbutt]

is that Eric Haney third from the left in the first pic??
No..........

[Creeper]

is that Eric Haney third from the left in the first pic??

What MuttButt said.

But Hell No.

[RallyPointCebu]

nice pics. i feel nostalgic just now.

[He219]

Here's Col. Michael Sumida's story:

http://www.defendamerica.mil/profiles/may2004/pr052004a.html (http://www.defendamerica.mil/profiles/may2004/pr052004a.html)
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The crew involved in the Air Force's failed April 25, 1980 attempt to rescue 52 American hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran pose in front of their C-130 transport on April 24, 1980, in the Oman desert. The following day, the aircraft was involved in a crash with a Marine Corps helicopter. Top Row (from left): Maj. Richard Bakke, killed; unidentified survivor; Tech Sgt. Joel Mayo, killed; Lyn McIntosh, killed; Maj. Harold Lewis Jr., killed; Capt. Charles McMillan, killed; Staff Sgt. J.J. Beyers, survivor; Col. Jeff Harrison, survivor. Bottom Row: unidentified survivors
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The scorched wreckage of an American C-130 Cargo aircraft lies in the Iranian desert of Dasht-E-Kavir, approximately 500 kilometers from Tehran, Iran on April 27, 1980. The mission to free 50 American hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was aborted due to equipment failure. The plane collided with a U.S. helicopter and eight servicemen were killed
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A propeller from the burned-out American C-130 cargo plane used in the aborted commando raid to rescue the U.S. embassy hostages lies amidst the plane's wreckage in the eastern desert region of Iran, Saturday, April 26, 1980. Eight members of the raiding party died in a crash of the cargo plane and a helicopter.

**NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT (http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7080/25653372ns.jpg)**The remains of severely burned bodies (http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8403/25653433bf.jpg) of U.S. Marines are pictured amidst (http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1336/47266225sn.jpg) the wreckage of U.S. aircraft, including helicopters and giant transporters, after an abortive Commando-style raid into Iran aimed at freeing hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy. The desert site is in Eastern Iran at Desht-E-Kavir, some 500 kilometers from Tehran. At least eight U.S. servicemen died in the mission on April 24, 1980.
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Senior Iranian Army officers accompany Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkali, a member of Iran's revolutionary government, on a tour of the burned-out American C-130 cargo plane used in the aborted commando raid to rescue the U.S. embassy hostages in the eastern desert region of Iran, Saturday, April 26, 1980. This photo is taken one day after the American commando team abandoned their mission.
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The remains of a burned-out U.S. helicopter lies in front of an abandoned chopper in the eastern desert region of Iran Saturday April 27, 1980, one day after the aborted American Commando raid to free the U.S. embassy hostages
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Marine Major James H. Shaefer, Jr., 36, of Los Angeles, holds a bandage to his head as he is wheeled into Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, April 27, 1980, for treatment at their famed burn ward. Shaefer and four others arrived at Kelly Air Force Base for treatment of injuries suffered in the aborted rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages in Iran.
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Four Swiss policemen stand guard over nine coffins of American soldiers, after they were unloaded from a Swissair plane, May 6, 1980, at Zurich Airport. Archbishop Hilarion Capudji and Swiss officials, including Jean-Marc Bornet of the International Red Cross, left, stand behind the coffins. The soldiers were killed during the abortive mission in Iran to rescue American hostages
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Army Col. Charles Beckwith, left, who led the unsuccessful attempt to free the hostages in Iran, talks with other military officers at a reception for the former hostages at the White House Tuesday Jan, 27, 1981. Beckwith led the raid that ended with aircraft collisions in the Iranian desert in which eight American servicemen died
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A message from British workers at an airfield on an island off Oman sent to surviving crew members of the ill-fated Iranian hostage rescue mission written on the top of a case of beer is shown framed in the Air Force's 8th Special Operations Squadron trophy case, April 5, 2000, at Hurlburt Field, Fla.
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Former Iranian hostage Bruce Laingen, left, and others, take part in the 20th anniversary remembrance ceremony Tuesday April 25, 2000, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlingon, Va. honoring those who died in the Iran rescue mission on Tuesday, April 25, 1980. From second from left are, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Vaught, Army Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton, and Carmella LaSpada, founder, No Greater Love.


RIP
:(

[axfax]

Very good thread here, thanks for the Beckwith-pics!

[artinist]

nice. i wonder if the remains are visible on google.

[aclark79]

I'm suprised they declasified these pictures, considering these people are still alive and might not want thier identities so freeley distributed. Granted it was a long time ago, but I recognized my old boss immediatly and he was shocked when I emailed him the pic.