Marine Sgt. William H. Pollard, left, was 24 when he died, one of the 241 U.S. troops killed in the Oct. 23, 1983 bombing attack on Marines in Beirut, Lebanon, the single deadliest day for the ...

On Oct. 23, 1983, U.S. Marines were targeted in a terrorist bombing attack on their Beirut barracks — 241 servicemen died that day 40 years ago. Bestselling author Jack Carr tells the story.

FILE – BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, BEIRUT, LEBANON ON October 24, 1983: American Marines search for survivors and bodies in the rubble, all that was left of their barracks headquarters in ...

The Marines landed in Beirut in 1982 as a stabilizing force. The idea is if the Americans are there as a peacekeeping force along with the French, Italians and British, that we can provide some ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – As the war between Israel and Hamas rages, many pause to remember the bombing in Beirut, Lebanon that killed 241 Marines, soldiers and sailors 40 years ago.

A hellishly long day in Beirut, Lebanon. Harris shared a room with eight other U.S. Marines at the airport. He was in the barracks on Oct. 23, 1983, as a heavy-duty Mercedes flat-bed truck laden ...

On October 23, 1983, a group called Islamic Jihad -- later found to have links to Hezbollah -- claimed responsibility for killing 241 U.S. military personnel, including 220 Marines, 18 sailors ...

The Beirut attack killed, using a similarly rough estimate, approximately 1 in 1,000 Marines. “Our memories are erased or overwritten by other things, and this one just doesn’t deserve to be ...

Fuad Shukr "played a central role" in the October 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, according to the US ...

Marines in Wonderland. On “Red Beach” at Khalde, five miles south of Beirut, began one of the strangest of all Marine operations since the first leathernecks landed in the Bahamas back in 1776.

Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, which was the beginning of an occupation that would not end completely until 2000. That Israeli invasion of Lebanon, like the current one, was directly related to ...

The Beirut Marine barracks were targeted by the Islamic Jihad, which was basically Hezbollah, whose missiles since Oct. 7 have brought Israel’s northern border – and the region ...