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Rangers drop onto Point Salines; Marines storm Pearls as Grenada invasion begins

Six days after Maurice Bishop's execution, 7,600 American and Caribbean troops hit the island before sunrise.

Six days after a firing squad executed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, American warplanes and ships closed on Grenada before dawn. At H-hour, 05:00 on October 25, 1983, Army Rangers parachuted onto Point Salines International Airport while Marines landed by helicopter and amphibious craft at Pearls Airport on the island's north end. More paratroopers and Marines lifted from USS Guam joined the assault, which also aimed to secure hundreds of American medical students at St. George's University. Grenadian resistance collapsed within days, and Hudson Austin's military government was deposed…

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