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This Day in History – October 23rd, 1983
1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing

Rescuers searched among the [-----1-----] of Marine headquarters in Beirut after Lebanes suicide commandos drove [-----2-----] into 2 bases where United States and French [-----3-----] were sleeping. More than 240 marines died in the first explosion, which turned a four-story structure into [-----4-----], burning ruins.

Two minutes later, the French compound was hit in a similar attack, killing 58. As rescue work continued, Marine [-----5-----] arrived in Beirut from the United States to replace the dead and injured, this point of time, October23, 1983.
rubble trucks packed with explosives peacekeeping troops suffocating reinforcements