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...Beirut, Lance Corporal J.B. Owen of Virginia Beach, Va. "With our job not yet finished," he wrote, "we must not leave this country in such a critical state. Marines never leave a job undone." Owen will not see that task completed. He also is among the confirmed dead in Beirut...
...week's end the count stood at 229 dead and 81 wounded. It was the highest number of American casualties in a single day since Jan. 13, 1968, when 246 servicemen were killed throughout Viet Nam at the start of the Tet offensive. In the heart of West Beirut, about two miles from the airport, searchers hunted through the remains of a nine-story building housing French paratroopers that had been hit minutes after the airport bombing; the French toll was 56 dead, with two missing and 15 injured...
Many of the dead Marines were naked or dressed only in jogging shorts, without their dog tags, making identification difficult. Worse yet, most of the battalion's personnel records and dental charts were destroyed in the blast. To ease the worry of families back home, the Marines were later permitted free five-minute telephone calls home...
Across town, the same fevered search was going on at the French paratroopers' building. One dead officer was found bent over his bootlaces, as if he had been tying them. On Thursday evening, a memorial service was held at the French Ambassador's residence. Two rows of 28 coffins, each draped with the French Tricolor, were lined up in the courtyard. Under a glow cast by Jeep headlights, the military trumpets sounded as the French chaplain sprinkled each coffin with holy water. At the end, the remaining soldiers sang La Chanson du Para, a favorite paratrooper hymn, whose...
...himself pinned under a jumble of concrete. After his cries for help went unheeded, he grabbed a wire and painfully pulled himself through a crack in the rubble. While Balcolm was being treated at a makeshift hospital, however, his dog tags were found in the wreckage. He was declared dead, and his relatives were notified. Balcolm did not learn about the mix-up until he called his brother the next day. Said Balcolm: "My mother thought a miracle had occurred...