# Talk:Operation Eastern Exit

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I've worked on the Embassy of the United States, Mogadishu article and found several quality sources concerning Operation Eastern Exit. I'm including them here because I don't plan to work on this article soon, but would like to leave these for other editors who may wish to improve this article:

Eastern Exit: The Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) From Mogadishu, Somalia in January 1991 Analysis of Operation Eastern Exit from the Center for Naval Analyses. A treasure-trove of details about the operation and critique of the operation
Evacuating Somalia Narrative article based on an interview with James K. Bishop (the US Ambassador to Somalia when it was evacuated)
Escape from Mogadishu account of the last days of Embassy Mogadishu and the evacuation written by Ambassador Bishop
Operation Eastern Exit: Night Mission To Mogadishu from the Marine Corps Association and Foundation. Not much that isn't covered in the above sources, but does have lots of quotes from interviews of a few people involved in the operation
CHOPPERS ARRIVED IN NICK OF TIME TO RESCUE 281 AT U.S. EMBASSY Originally published in the Washington Post. Lengthy article about the operation, but not a lot of details not covered by the first three sources in this list.
AHeneen (talk) 21:48, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

I've removed the image at right because it is likely to be interpreted incorrectly. At top it states "From Masirah Island", with arrows pointing down to Mogadishu. The arrows suggest that the helicopters travelled from the Gulf of Aden across the interior of Somalia to Mogadishu. However, Masirah Island is where the vessels departed on 2 January. A very reliable source is the CNA analysis, which has a map on page 5 (page 18 of the PDF file), showing the location of the vessels when the CH-53E Super Stallions were launched, which was only 466 nautical miles (863 km; 536 mi) from Mogadishu (this image shows the helicopters traveling about 700-1000 nmi!). On the image (open full size), the location of the vessels when the CH-53E Super Stallions were launched is about where a horizontal line going east from the label "Mudug" intersects the path of the vessels (as depicted in the image). Because of how grossly misleading this image is, I am removing it from the article. I may have time to create a map later. AHeneen (talk) 09:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC)