DOD: U.S. Remembers Service Members Killed in Beirut Bombings 40 Years Ago
October 25, 2023
October 25, 2023
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news:
By David Vergun, DOD News
Forty years ago, terrorists drove two trucks filled with explosives into buildings housing a multinational peacekeeping force, killing 241 U.S. service members and 58 French military and civilian personnel in Beirut.
It was early Sunday morning when the first suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb into the four-story barracks of the 1st Battalion 8th M . . .
By David Vergun, DOD News
Forty years ago, terrorists drove two trucks filled with explosives into buildings housing a multinational peacekeeping force, killing 241 U.S. service members and 58 French military and civilian personnel in Beirut.
It was early Sunday morning when the first suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb into the four-story barracks of the 1st Battalion 8th M . . .