Operation Eagle Claw

1980 Delta Force failed operation for rescuing American hostages
Event military_operation Q612739
Operation Eagle Claw
U.S. military · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Operation Eagle Claw

Summary

Operation Eagle Claw is a military operation[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of military_operation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,013 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Operation Eagle Claw is in the country of Iran[3].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's image is recorded as Eagle Claw wrecks at Desert One.png[4].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's instance of is recorded as military operation[5].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2001001766[6].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's location is recorded as Tehran[7].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's part of is recorded as Iran hostage crisis[8].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's Commons category is recorded as Operation Eagle Claw[9].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's start time is recorded as +1980-04-24T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's end time is recorded as +1980-04-25T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 33.073055555555555, 'lon': 55.8925}[12].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01znlm[13].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as United States[14].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as United States Army[15].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as Central Intelligence Agency[16].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as United States Army Rangers[17].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as Jimmy Carter[18].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as James B. Vaught[19].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as Charles Alvin Beckwith[20].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's participant is recorded as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta[21].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+5'}[22].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+3'}[23].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+1'}[24].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+1'}[25].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/Operation-Eagle-Claw[26].
  • Operation Eagle Claw's BBC Things ID is recorded as d76f1186-ff6c-4d67-9238-1983a156c26f[27].

Why It Matters

Operation Eagle Claw ranks in the top 2% of military_operation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,013 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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