Beirut Bombing - On 23 Oct 1983 (31 years ago today) the barracks of BLT 1/8 in Beirut, Lebanon was attacked by a suicide bomber. Please keep the family and friends of the 241 Warriors killed that day in your prayers. BVA Motto: The First Duty is to Remember. In the attack on the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team - BLT 1/8), the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since World War IIs Battle of Iwo Jima, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Vietnam Wars Tet Offensive, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II. Another 128 Americans were wounded in the blast. Thirteen later died of their injuries, and they are numbered among the total number who died.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:00:16 +0000
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