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Brian Kirkpatrick, then a corporal and combat engineer attached to "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, is pictured during peacekeeping operations in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983. Kirkpatrick is a survivor of the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing in 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: | 1038758 |
| VIRIN: | 131011-M-ZZ999-008 |
| Resolution: | 606x850 |
| Size: | 149.66 KB |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Web Views: | 309 |
| Downloads: | 27 |
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