Brian Kirkpatrick (right), then a corporal and combat engineer attached to "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, takes a picture in a hospital after being treated for wounds sustained from the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing at Beirut, Lebanon. 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: | 10.23.2013 |
Date Posted: | 10.23.2013 11:51 |
Photo ID: | 1038756 |
VIRIN: | 131011-M-ZZ999-005 |
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Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
Hometown: | YALE, MICHIGAN, US |
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