Summary of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1 In the lead humvee, Staff Sgt. Jeff Struecker's heart sank as he saw people running around on the tarmac. He had three humvees full of wounded soldiers to get back to base, and he was worried about getting through the crowd.

#2 When the soldiers started catching rounds from a different direction, Galentine and Telscher ran to an alley. There, they came face to face with a Somali woman. Galentine had been very close to killing this woman.

#3 Eversmann had three Rangers injured, one critically, and he had gotten them out. He radioed First Lt. Larry Perino, the Chalk One commander, that he had taken two more casualties. From across the street, Sgt. Telscher shouted, Sgt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669366768

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In the lead humvee, Staff Sgt. Jeff Struecker's heart sank as he saw people running around on the tarmac. He had three humvees full of wounded soldiers to get back to base, and he was worried about getting through the crowd.

#2

When the soldiers started catching rounds from a different direction, Galentine and Telscher ran to an alley. There, they came face to face with a Somali woman. Galentine had been very close to killing this woman.

#3

Eversmann had three Rangers injured, one critically, and he had gotten them out. He radioed First Lt. Larry Perino, the Chalk One commander, that he had taken two more casualties. From across the street, Sgt. Telscher shouted, Sgt.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

A terrifying scene, then a big crash. Aden heard the American helicopters coming in low, so low that the big tree that stood in the central courtyard of his stone house was uprooted and knocked over.

#2

The crash of the helicopter, Super 61, was captured on camera by cameras on three surveillance helicopters. The sick feeling that came over officers watching the footage went far beyond the immediate fate of the six men on board.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The Rangers in Chalk One were taking cover from Somalis at an intersection of dirt alleys. Both alleys were deeply rutted and littered with debris. Dirt popped up all around them.

#2

At 23, Nelson was a little older than his buddies. When the corporate training program he attended after high school in Atlanta abruptly folded, he had enlisted. He felt protective of his fellow Rangers, and not just because of his big gun. They were the first real family he had ever had.

#3

The men on the ground were not alone. Above them, powerful guns provided them with deep reassurance.

Insights from Chapter 4

#1

After he had leveled the Somali crowd with his M-60, gunner Shawn Nelson heard the approach of a Blackhawk. It was Cliff Wolcott's Super 61, flying a low orbit over the target area in central Mogadishu. The bird's two crew chiefs were blasting targets with their mounted miniguns, and two Commando snipers in the rear were picking off Somalian gunmen.

#2

It took Chief Warrant Officer Keith Jones, piloting a Little Bird with the call sign Star 41, a few minutes to locate the crash.