The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in Somalia. Eighteen American soldiers lost their lives in the fighting that ...

And much like President Truman’s sending U.S. soldiers to fight in Korea ... Mark Bowdon’s wrenching book Black Hawk Down and Ridley Scott’s movie of the same name have helped to memorialize ...

But the mission went disastrously wrong when two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down resulting in one of the largest US military rescue missions of recent times. A total of 18 US soldiers were ...

Black Hawk Down was nominated for four Academy Awards ... Because we didn’t just lose soldiers. We lost close, close friends and colleagues. ‘The hardest day of my life … was coming home ...

Bob Keller, former US Army Special Forces and Delta Force operator, rates 10 Army special operations scenes in movies and TV, such as "Black Hawk Down," for ... "Horse Soldiers" — in "12 Strong ...