Apr. 29—Cannon Air Force Base on Thursday commemorated the 45th anniversary of Operation Eagle Claw in a ceremony that began with a two-ship flyover. According to a Cannon news release: The operation, ...
Editor’s note: On Nov. 4, 1979, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage. Some of the hostages were released, but by April 1980, and after numerous ...