A list of names is outlined on a paper. Brian Kirkpatrick, then a corporal and combat engineer attached to "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, wrote the list while waiting in a hospital in the Republic of Cyprus. On Oct. 23,1983, a suicide bomber driving a truck rammed into the barracks with 12,000 pounds of high explosives detonating one of the largest non-nuclear bombings in history.
Date Taken: | 10.11.2013 |
Date Posted: | 10.23.2013 11:51 |
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Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
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