How rescue of US airman in remote part of Iran unfolded
BBC →Iran's military said two US C-130 military transport planes and two Black Hawk helicopters were destroyed during the operation - and that "a deception and escape mission at an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan…
Three U.S. Officers Missing in Iran
TEHERAN, Iran, April — An Iranian Air Force plane carrying three American officers and one Iranian was reported missing today on a mapping mission. Twenty planes began a widespread search of a vast desert area. Authorities said bad weather may have forced the single-engine plane to land somewhere between Hamadan, the origin of the flight, and Teheran, the destination. The United States Embassy declined to release the names of the Americans.
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14 July Revolution
On 14 July 1958, a group that identified as the Free Officers, a secret military group led by Brigadier Abd al-Karim Qasim, overthrew the monarchy. King Faisal II, Prince Abd al-Ilah, and Nuri al-Said were all killed.
Wikipedia →1958 Lebanon crisis
Eisenhower responded by authorizing the American military intervention Operation Blue Bat on 15 July 1958, in the first application of the Eisenhower Doctrine in which the U.S. announced that it would intervene to protect regimes that it considered to be threatened by international communism. the goal of the operation was to stabilize Lebanon.
Wikipedia →1960 U-2 incident
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane, having taken off from Peshawar in Pakistan, was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces in Sverdlovsk, Russia. Powers parachuted to the ground and was captured.
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