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The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean countries invaded the small island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela, at dawn on 25 October 1983. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [9] It was triggered by strife within the People's Revolutionary ...
1 day ago · Casualties in the U.S. invasion of Grenada were relatively few. Among U.S. troops, 19 were killed and 116 were wounded. Cuban forces suffered perhaps 24 killed and 59 wounded. There were 21 members of the Grenadian army killed in action, while Grenadian civilian casualties numbered 24 dead and 337 wounded.
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Here is a list* of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of the Second World War to 2020: Afghanistan 1998, 2001- Bosnia 1994, 1995 Cambodia 1969-70 China 1945-46 Congo 1964 Cuba 1959-1961 El Salvador 1980s Korea 1950-53 Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69 Indonesia 1958. Laos 1964-73 Grenada 1983 Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015 ...
Oct 25, 2013 · The U.S. invasion of Grenada was the first major U.S. military operation since the end of the Vietnam War. Indeed, it may have in part been a test of the so-called “Vietnam syndrome,” the purported “affliction” that made it difficult for the American public to support U.S. military intervention without a just cause.
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The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean countries invaded the small island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela, at dawn on 25 October 1983. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [9]
Oct 25, 2018 · Early on the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, a truck bomb detonated beside the U.S. Marine barracks at Lebanon’s Beirut International Airport, killing 241 American servicemen. That evening President ...
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Oct 25, 2017 · By Andrew Glass. 10/25/2017 12:02 AM EDT. Citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation’s pro-Marxist regime, on this day in 1983 President ...
