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  2. 1st Battalion, 8th Marines - Wikipedia

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    On Sunday morning at 06:22, October 23, 1983, Battalion Landing Team 1/8, the ground combat element of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, was the main victim of what came to be known as the Beirut barracks bombing when a truck loaded with 12,000 pounds of explosives crashed through the gates of the BLT headquarters at the airport in Beirut ...

  3. Beirut Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Beirut Memorial is a memorial to the 241 American peacekeepers—220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers—killed in the October 23, 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. It is located outside the gate of Camp Gilbert H. Johnson , a satellite camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune , in Jacksonville, North Carolina .

  4. 1983 Beirut barracks bombings - Wikipedia

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    6 June 1982 – Israel undertakes military action in Southern Lebanon: Operation "Peace for Galilee." 23 August 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected to be Lebanon's president. 25 August 1982 – A MNF of approximately 400 French, 800 Italian soldiers and 800 marines of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) are deployed in Beirut as part of a peacekeeping force to oversee the evacuation of ...

  5. Who are the Rhode Island Nine? The stories behind the Marines ...

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    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 ...

  6. List of attacks in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    8th Arsal bombing (August 15) – A bomb wounded 5 soldiers in the eastern village of Arsal. [64] Zahle bombing (August 31) – A bomb killed 1 person and injured several others in the eastern city of Zahle. [65] Al Ain (December 28) – A small explosion killed the deputy mayor of Al Ain, a town in northeastern Lebanon. [66]

  7. Beirut bombing victims' $1.68 billion Iran judgment ... - AOL

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    A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $1.68 billion judgment against Iran's central bank that had been won by family members of troops killed and injured in the 1983 bombing of the U.S ...

  8. 8th Marine Regiment - Wikipedia

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    In total, 220 marines lost their lives in the bombing of the Beirut barracks alongside 18 sailors and 3 soldiers. [ 2 ] From December 1990 to April 1991 the 8th Marines participated in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . 2d Battalion, 8th Marines participated in Operation Provide Comfort in northern ...

  9. Hezbollah military commander claimed killed by Israel was ...

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    The bombing near the Beirut International Airport on Oct. 23, 1983, remains the deadliest single-day attack on Marines since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. A near-simultaneous attack on ...