The site of the truck bombing was at Lebanon’s Beirut International Airport, where 220 Marines, 18 Sailors and three soldiers were killed. The U.S. along with the United Kingdom, France and Italy were in Lebanon’s capital city to be part of the Lebanon’s capital city to be part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force. U.S. troops were sent to Beirut after the start of the 1982 Lebanon War.

The site of the truck bombing was at Lebanon’s Beirut International Airport, where 220 Marines, 18 Sailors and three soldiers were killed. The U.S. along with the United Kingdom, France and Italy were in Lebanon’s capital city to be part of the Lebanon’s capital city to be part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force. U.S. troops were sent to Beirut after the start of the 1982 Lebanon War.