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First day of the invasion President Reagan meeting with Congress on the invasion of Grenada in the Cabinet Room, 25 October 1983. H-hour for the invasion was set for 05:00 on 25 October 1983. U.S. troops deployed for Grenada by helicopter from Grantley Adams International Airport on Barbados before daybreak.
- 25–29 October 1983 (4 days)
Nov 13, 2009 · United States invades Grenada. President Ronald Reagan, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation’s Marxist regime, orders U.S. forces to ...
Apr 30, 2024 · In a televised address on October 27, Reagan characterized Grenada as a “Soviet-Cuban colony” and claimed that the invasion had occurred “just in time.” The invasion came just 48 hours after a suicide truck bomb attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, that claimed the lives of 241 service members.
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Most Americans who remember Operation Urgent Fury—the October 1983 U.S.-led invasion of Grenada—recall it as a contingency action to protect U.S. citizens on a tropical island then in the throes of a bloody power struggle. “Rescue mission” became the Reagan administration’s preferred shorthand phrase for describing, and justifying ...
Oct 25, 2017 · 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 Ronald Reagan ordered ...
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Dec 3, 2018 · On October 25, 1983, nearly 2,000 United States Marines led an invasion of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. Given the codename "Operation Urgent Fury," the invasion was ordered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to counter threats by Grenada’s Marxist governments to nearly 1,000 American nationals (including 600 medical students) living ...
Oct 25, 2013 · Officially, says the Herald, it was President Reagan’s worry for the hundreds of American medical students who had been in Grenada that prompted the invasion. But, says PBS, the real reason was ...
