The scene around the U.S. Marine Corps base near Beirut, Lebanon, following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base on Oct. 23, 1983. (AP Photo) Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah ...

Shortly past daybreak on the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, a Mercedes truck tore through the concertina wire that surrounded the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The truck was loaded with PETN ...

The Marines were to maintain a visible “presence” in the capital of Beirut, in the hopes that it would deter further bloodshed among the various warring factions and militias fighting for ...

On Oct. 23, 1983, Marine Cpl. Thurnell “Chip” Shields lay on his cot on the third floor of the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines battalion landing team headquarters in Beirut when he was awakened by ...

Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil, whom Israel says was killed on Friday, was wanted for bombing the U.S Marine barracks and embassy in Beirut in 1983.

William H. Pollard, 24, was one of 220 Marines killed in the Oct. 23, 1983 bombing attack on a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, the Marine Corps’ deadliest day since the battle of Iwo Jima.

Early on a Sunday morning on Oct. 23, 1983, a truck packed with 12,000 pounds of explosives was driven into a building in Beirut, Lebanon, housing troops of the 1 st Battalion 8 th Marines ...

(WCHS) — A decorated veteran from Kanawha County who survived a deadly attack in Beirut ... 1983, Selbe was literally buried alive when a suicide bomber rammed a truck full of explosives into ...

It was springtime 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, just barely a month after the bombing of the U.S. Embassy. A young U.S. Marine corporal from Providence paid a visit to an even younger U.S. Marine ...

Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina ...

In this Oct. 24, 1983, file photo, U.S. Marines and an Italian soldier dig through the rubble of the battalion headquarters, in Beirut, Lebanon, working around the clock searching for victims of ...