Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, USA. 29th October 1983 At precisely 7 , a Marine honor guard and a color guard in ceremonial dress uniforms marched into a huge hangar at the Dover Air Force Base and stood facing 16 coffins. Behind them, suspended from the beams of the hangar, was a 38-foot American flag. The ceremony was the first on American soil honoring servicemen killed in the bombing in Beirut and the invasion of Grenada. Credit: Mark Reinstein

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Location: Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, USA
Photo credit: © mark reinstein / Alamy / Afripics
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