A U.S. Air Force officer whose F-15E was shot down over Iran has revealed how he prayed while plummeting toward the ground at up to 100 mph before surviving a broken back and other injuries — and 50 hours behind enemy lines as Iranian forces hunted him — in an ordeal he described as a “modern-day miracle.”
The weapons systems officer, identified only by his mission call sign “Dude 44 Bravo” because of Iranian security threats, spoke publicly for the first time Sunday in a 60 Minutes interview that included newly declassified footage of the extraordinary U.S. operation launched to bring him home.
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