(CNN) — Here is a look at the 1983 bombing of a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 US service personnel. On October 23, 1983, 241 US service personnel – including 220 Marines and 21 ...
JACKSONVILLE, N.C.- (WNCT) The Jacksonville community, Beirut veterans and gold star families all gathered at Lejeune Memorial Gardens Thursday to mark the 42nd anniversary of the Beirut Barracks ...
William J. “Bill” Sickles Jr., a veteran of the Beirut peacekeeping effort during the Marine Barracks Bombing in 1983, recently died at his home in Willoughby. During his time in the Marine Corps from ...
Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23, 1983, when a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed. Dedicated in 2020, the ...
Back in 2013, The American Lawyer marked the 30th anniversary of the 1983 Beirut barracks attack by pointing out that the victims’ families were still waiting for justice. In 2001, some 812 family ...