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Operation Provide Comfort: Review of U.S. Air Force Investigation of Black Hawk Fratricide Incident

OSI-98-4 Published: Nov 05, 1997. Publicly Released: Nov 05, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed military investigations made subsequent to the April 14, 1994, shootdown by U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters of two Army Black Hawk helicopters over Iraq in which 26 individuals died.

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