Remembering the Beirut Barracks Bombing

Today in History: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings

BEIRUT MARINE BOMBINGS 1983: THE DEADLIEST ATTACK ON U.S. FORCES SINCE VIETNAM | A renewed look at the attack that reshaped peacekeeping, terrorism, and Middle East geopolitics We revisit the morning of October 23, 1983, when Beirut awoke to one of the most devastating attacks in modern military history. At dawn, a suicide bomber drove a hijacked truck into the U.S. Marine Corps barracks near Beirut International Airport, unleashing an explosion that killed 241 American service members and injur

Veterans, families remember Marines killed in 1983 Beirut bombings