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142. Black Hawk Down: The True Story (Ep 1)
· 53 min · S1 E142
Episode 142. Black Hawk Down: The True Story (Ep 1)
What really happened at the Battle of Mogadishu? How did an operation that should have taken an hour end up taking almost twenty-four? And what brought US troops into the conflict in the first place?
Listen as David and Gordon embark on telling the true story of one of the deadliest US operations since the Vietnam War.
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