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Children Playing On The Wreckage Of A Helicopter

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Somali children playing on top a wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in Mogadishu captured in a photo in December of 1993, just a few months after Operation Gothic Serpent. The mission, whose aim was to capture Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his top lieutenants, took place in the afternoon of October 3, 1993. With a contingent of Army Rangers and Delta Force Operators, backed as well by Pakistani and Malaysian forces, the Americans engaged the Somalis into a firefight that lasted 15-hours, resulting in the deaths of 18 American soldiers and hundreds, if not thousands, of Somalis, including civilians.