1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident
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U.S. Military personnel inspect the wreckage of the trail Black Hawk in the Northern Iraq No Fly Zone during Operation Provide Comfort, April 15 or 16, 1994.
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F-15 fires an air-to-air missile.
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F-15 departs Incirlik AB during Provide Comfort.
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A Black Hawk with side mounted fuel tanks flies over Turkey during Provide Comfort.
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MI-24 Hind helicopter with weapons pods.
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Provide Comfort Black Hawk as seen from the side-rear.
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Black Hawk flies over a Kurdish village in Northern Iraq during Provide Comfort.
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U.S. Air Force E-3 AWACS aircraft
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AWACS crew at their stations on their aircraft during Provide Comfort.
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AWACS aircraft lands at Incirlik AB during Provide Comfort.
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Photo of northern Iraq terrain during Provide Comfort.
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The remains of the 26 victims in the Black Hawk shootdown arrive at the U.S. Army Mortuary Center, Frankfurt, Germany on April 15, 1994.
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USAF Lieutenant General Steven (Stephen) Croker (center), Eighth Air Force commander.
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USAF Chief of Staff at the time of the shootdown, General Merrill McPeak
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U.S. Air Force General Robert C. Oaks (Here photographed as a Lieutenant General in 1986)
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U.S. Air Force LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN R. DALLAGER
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U.S. Air Force BRIGADIER GENERAL CURTIS H. EMERY II
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U.S. Air Force BRIGADIER GENERAL DOUGLAS J. "DOUG" RICHARDSON
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U.S. Air Force LIEUTENANT GENERAL EUGENE D. SANTARELLI
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United States Air Force MAJOR GENERAL JAMES G. ANDRUS.
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Brigadier General Orin Godsey was the USAF chief of safety from August, 1994 - December, 1995 when much of the investigation into the incident was still occurring.
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William Perry, U.S. Secretary of Defense at the time of the incident.
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U.S. Army General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the incident and former commander of Operation Provide Comfort.
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USAF General Ronald Fogleman who took action to hold participants in the shootdown accountable.
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Judith Miller, U.S. DoD General Counsel who signed letters refusing to allow four USAF officers to be deposed for U.S. Senate investigation.
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U.S. Senator Fred Thompson who ended the Senate investigation into the incident without releasing a report.
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U.S. Congressman Lamar Smith led the hearings into compensation for the families of the U.S. victims in the shootdown.