Posted on Oct 16, 2017
What were the names of the most successful U.S. military rescue operations?
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I can't think of any more successful than the Raid on Cabanatuan in the Philippines. A bit more historical, Washington's Escape from Long Island, not sure I would count that as a rescue.
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Sgt Trent LaLand
Yes, the raid on Cabanatuan executed by U.S. Army Rangers, 6th Ranger Battalion along with Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas under the cover of darkness resulting in the 552 Allied prisoners of war was the most successful U.S. military rescue operation on a larger scale. Also when you look at U.S. military rescue operations on a smaller scale such as the Navy Seals rescue of aid workers Jessica Buchanan and Paul Hagen where Navy Seals parachuted from a C-130 Hercules and traveled by foot and raided a compound in East Africa killing 9 Somali pirates resulting in the rescue of Jessica and Paul.
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Sgt Trent LaLand
Also the rescue of Captain Phillips from Somali pirates. Navy Seal snipers from Seal Team 6 parachuted into the ocean and boarded the U.S.S. Bainbridge which they took up positions on the fantail of the ship shooting and killing the Somali pirates resulting in the rescue of Captain Phillips.
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For more of a modern day rescue look up Jessica Lynch. She was rescued in 2003 and the first successful rescue operation at that time since WWII
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Heres an excerpt I found. "Iraqi forces captured U.S. Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch during an ambush near Nasiriyah in 2003 that killed 11 soldiers in her company. In one of the greatest hostage rescue operations, U.S. forces rescued her nine days later in what became the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since World War II."
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Sgt Trent LaLand
Yes this was a well executed rescue where a Joint Special Operations Task Force of U.S. Green Berets, Delta Force, Army Rangers, and Air Force pararescuemen executed the daring raid on the hospital in Iraq to rescue PFC Jessica Lynch.
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