SOCOM Releases Video Commemorating Battle of Mogadishu

Battle of Mogadishu: Blackhawk Down: Recollections, plus: The untold story

The Battle of the Black Sea in Mogadishu, Somalia — remembered as “Black Hawk Down” — began on October 3, 1993, as part of Operation Gothic Serpent. Task Force Ranger, made up of elite U.S. Special Operations Forces, launched a mission to capture Somali clan leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid. What started as a daylight raid quickly escalated into an intense 18-hour urban battle against heavily armed Somali militia. Two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, and in the hours that followed, America

US military footage gives inside look at the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993