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...from Britain's crack Special Air Services Regiment (S.A.S.), which has been effectively employed against Irish Republican Army terrorists in England and Northern Ireland. West Germany's Grenzschutzgruppe (G.S.G. 9), similar antiterrorist specialists, are also said to have helped in the training. With its diverse support forces, the team flew to undisclosed desert sites in the U.S. Southwest, where it conducted seven full rehearsals of the operation, some at night, to overcome the problem of operating in clouds of sand kicked up by high winds or the landing and take-offs of huge helicopters and cargo craft...
...unsuspecting guards, presumably with gunfire and some kind of chemical weapon, just as the choppers landed on the embassy rooftops. The helicopters would then carry the hostages and the combat team to a rendezvous with the C-130s. The Sea Stallions would be abandoned as the big Hercules flew everyone to safety...
They helped mine Haiphong Harbor, retrieved airmen downed in hostile territory during the Viet Nam War, rescued crew members of the Mayaguez, who had been seized by Cambodian Communists, and flew in the commandos who raided the San Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam. The honor roll is long and distinguished for the Sikorsky S-65 series of helicopters, a mammoth, 25-ton rotary-blade airship that in its various versions, including the affectionately named Jolly Green Giant, has been one of the most dependable workhorses for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force...
Deployed by the Navy primarily to sweep up enemy mines and support amphibious operations, the Sea Stallion is jampacked with electronic gear. The aircraft that flew into Iran were loaded with even more equipment. An infra-red device, for example, was added to scan the territory ahead of the helicopter at night and give the pilot a TV-like picture of the approaching terrain. Even in a pitch-black night and at altitudes as low as shrub level, the pilots of the Sea Stallions would be able to see clearly where they were heading...
...decided to attempt to see Kevin, Mrs. Timm had no idea she would even be admitted to Iran, let alone gain access to the embassy. She and her husband obtained 15-day visas from the Iranian embassy in Paris, easily got in touch with the militants by phone and flew to Tehran. Two days later, the militants took the Timms to a cemetery where victims of the revolution against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi lie buried. Kenneth Timm took photographs. "I knew they had to test me," Mrs. Timm recalled later. "They wanted to feel me out." On the ride back...