“WE GOT HIM!” The race against time between Washington and Tehran is over: Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social network that the second aviator rescued from the crash of an F-15E aircraft in Iran on Friday, who had been missing since, was rescued by the United States on the night of Saturday, April 4 to Sunday, April 5.
After the rescue of the first pilot of the F-15E fighter-bomber, which the Iranian army claimed to have shot down on Friday, the US military launched a large-scale operation to find the second soldier aboard the aircraft, destroyed in the province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad in southwest Iran. The local branch of the Iranian state television had promised a “generous reward” to anyone who would deliver the aviator. Here’s what is known about this rescue, qualified by Donald Trump as “one of the most audacious search and rescue operations in US history.”
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