The United States and a coalition of Caribbean countries invaded the island nation of Grenada at dawn on 25 October 1983. It was codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, and resulted in m
An American Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter hovers above the ground near an abandoned Soviet ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun during the American invasion of Grenada, 1983.
Point Salines International Airport
Maurice Bishop and Foreign Minister Unison Whiteman in East Germany, 1982
Members of the Eastern Caribbean Defense Force
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Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian revolutionary, politician and the leader of the New JEWEL Movement, a party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and true black liberat
United States invasion of Grenada
…within the People's Revolutionary Government, which led to the house arrest and execution of the previous leader and second Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, and to the establishment of the Revolutionary Military Council, with Hudson Austin as chairman. Following the invasion there was an interim government…
Maurice Bishop
Bishop in Bautzen, East Germany, 1982
In East Berlin, 1982
Banner of the Grenada Revolution, located in Grenada National Museum