Press Photos from The Norbert Schiller Collection
Photographs by Colonel Charles Smilie while deployed as a Marine to Lebanon in 1958
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The 1958 U.S. Invasion of Lebanon:
Introduction:
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interesting that nothing is mentioned of a belly-landing of one of the airplanes landing at the airport, full of commandos
The air cover to the Beirut operation. provided by the USS Saratoga off the Beirut coast was not mentioned. We flew several sorties that day. I remember watching from the flight deck as our aircraft launched and landed.