Remembering: Barracks Bombings in Beirut

In 1983, an international force of peacekeepers entered Lebanon in hopes of creating a peace between Christian and Muslim factions.

Barracks were set up in buildings near the Beirut International Airport.

On October 23, 1983 a truck loaded with at least one thousand pounds of explosives drove straight into the US barracks and exploded.

That blast killed two hundred and twenty Marines, eighteen Navy sailors, and three Army soldiers.

Moments later, another vehicle slammed into the French barracks, killing fifty-eight paratroopers.

Evidence pointed to Hezbollah being responsible for the attacks, but no retaliation was ever made.

A few months later international forces had left Lebanon.