On Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, at 0622 hours, two truck bombs detonated by suicide bombers struck a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that housed 300 service members of the multinational force during a peacekeeping operation in the Lebanese Civil War. Killed were 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the US Marine Corps...
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