The United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps carried out air strikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, against Libya on 15 April 1986 in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing ten days earlier, which U.S. President Ronald Reagan blamed on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. There were 40 reported Libyan casualties; one U.S. plane was shot down. One of the claimed Libyan deaths was of a baby girl, reported to be Gaddafi's daughter, Hana Gaddafi. However, there are doubts as to whether she was really killed, or whether she truly existed.
An American 48th Tactical Fighter Wing F-111 aircraft takes off from RAF Lakenheath in April 1986 to participate in an air strike against Libya.
President Reagan consults bipartisan Congressional leaders about the strike.
President of the United States Ronald Reagan in a briefing with US National Security Council staff on Operation El Dorado Canyon.
Ground crew prepares a 48th Tactical Fighter Wing F-111F aircraft for an air strike on Libya
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The 4450th Tactical Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was headquartered at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and operationally located at Tonopah Test Range Airport, Nevada. It was inactivated on 5 October 1989.
Full Scale Development Aircraft Five (FSD-5), Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk 79-7084. being refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker, July 1983
FSD-1, later F-117A 79-10780 inside a hangar prior to the first flight of the Nighthawk, June, 1981.
Two A-7D Corsair IIs of the 4450th TG Flying over Hoover Dam, 1986. Shown are 70–1006, the other being the 4450th TG Commander's aircraft
An F-117A and A-7D refueling over the Nevada desert