Downed U.S. Air Force pilot calls Iran survival a 'modern-day miracle'

In the long history of airmen who have fallen from the sky into enemy hands, a U.S. Air Force pilot known as Dude 44 Bravo has added his chapter — shot down over Iran in April, surviving two days of evasion on the ground before rescue arrived. His account, shared with 60 Minutes, is a reminder that modern warfare still reduces itself, in its most critical moments, to a single human being hiding in the dark, waiting. The incident speaks not only to the personal courage of one officer but to the enduring and underreported risks that American military personnel absorb in contested skies far from