File:Iran Rescue - front detail - Arlington National Cemetery - 2011.JPG

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English: Detail of the face of the Iran Rescue Mission Memorial in Section 46 of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States.

On November 4, 1979, an Iranian mob seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. With the hostage crisis continuing and no resolution in sight, President Jimmy Carter authorized a secret military operation to rescue the hostages. During a rendezvous in the Iranian desert in a sandstorm on April 25, 1980, two of the aircraft involved in the rescue mission collided. Eight American military personnel died. Their bodies were returned to the United States. The hostages were freed on January 20, 1981. A memorial to the memory of the eight dead was dedicated on April 25, 1983.

The Iran Rescue Mission Memorial was moved a short distance to be next to the Space Shuttle Columbia and Space Shuttle Challenger memorials.
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