144. Black Hawk Down: The Bloodiest US Battle Since Vietnam (Ep 3)

The Rest Is Classified

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🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0	For exclusive interviews, bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to series,
0:09.0	first look at live show tickets, a weekly newsletter, and discounted books,
0:13.1	join the Declassified Club at the rest is classified.com. Two Blackhawks are down.
0:26.5	Dozens of American soldiers are wounded, but how long will the battle of Mogadishu go on for?
0:33.6	Welcome to the rest is classified.
0:34.6	I'm Gordon Carrera.
0:35.6	And I'm David McAlaski. And David, we have been deep in this remarkable story of events in 1993, October
0:43.3	1993. The story, I guess, memorialised in the film and the book, Black Hawk Down,
0:50.2	but which marks this battle which took place inside the Somali capital.
0:56.2	And we left with things going pretty badly wrong for the Americans, didn't we?
1:00.4	We did.
1:01.2	So the rescue convoy, the lost convoy we talked about on the last episode that had fought
1:06.6	its way essentially in circles through Bogotisou in an attempt to get to the first down Black
1:12.2	Talk has gone back to base, taken so many casualties, eight dead, over half the convoy wounded,
1:18.6	they've gone back to the Rangers airbase. Now, there's an assault force, which will come to
1:23.5	later, that has moved on foot from the target building, an assault force of rangers,
1:30.0	of Delta Force operators, moving on foot trying to get to that first down Blackhawk to secure
1:35.7	the crash site. So they're moving on foot to that. There are two Blackhawks down. Super 6-1,
1:42.6	which is the first bird that went down, and Super 6-4, piloted by Michael Durant,
1:48.3	which is in a separate crash site. Now, there have been a rescue convoy dispatched
1:54.5	from the base in an attempt to go out into the city and reach these crash sites that
2:00.1	has had to turn it back because it just
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