The April 18, 1983, United States Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. T
US Embassy three days after the bombing
Damage to the U.S. Embassy after the bombing.
President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan pay their respects and tribute to the thirteen American civilian and four U.S. military personnel victims of the embassy bombing.
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A Marine Security Guard, also known as a Marine Embassy Guard, is a member of the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group, a brigade-sized organization of the United States Marine Corps whose detachments
1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut
…Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one U.S. Marine Security Guard. The attack came in the wake of an intervention in the Lebanese Civil War by the United States and other Western countries. The attacks were claimed…
Marine Security Guards in Embassy of the United States, Beijing
A Marine Security Guard examines a security system in December 2004.
Marine Security Guards raising the American flag at a new U.S. embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2006