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SEALs killed in Grenada, but not forgotten: Machinist Mate 1st Kenneth J. Butcher, Quartermaster 1st Kevin E. Lundberg, Hull Technician 1st Stephen L. Morris, and Senior Chief Engineman Robert R. Schamberger. Visit the Navy SEAL Memorial where these heroes are forever honored.
Oct 25, 2013 · The war lasted less than a week, but in the brief conflict 19 U.S. soldiers, 25 Cuban soldiers, 45 Grenadian revolutionaries and 24 civilians died. Today in Grenada an official holiday,...
Dec 3, 2018 · The island has functioned as a democracy ever since. A total of almost 8,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, along with 353 troops of the Caribbean Peace Forces participated in Operation Urgent Fury. U.S. forces suffered 19 killed and 116 wounded.
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.
HUNTER ARMY AIRFIELD, Ga., Nov. 8, 1983 -- The senior U.S. Army officer directing the invasion of Grenada estimated today that 160 Grenadian soldiers and 71 Cubans were killed in the warfare,...
Nov 13, 2009 · Reagan ordered in more troops, and by the time the fighting was done, combined forces of the U.S. and Jamaica totaled nearly 7,600 troops . Nearly 20 of these troops were killed and over a hundred...
Grenada, one of the smallest independent nations in the Western Hemisphere and one of the southernmost Caribbean islands in the Windward chain, has an area of only 133 square miles. The population is 110,000. But size is not necessarily the determining factor when governments consider strategic military locations. The Cuban government knew the value of Grenada's location when it decided to ...
