✦ History

United States invasion of Grenada

October 25 – December 15, 1983 · Grenada

Result American–CPF & Grenadian Opposition victory

On 25 October 1983 the United States and Caribbean allies invaded Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury, after infighting in the People's Revolutionary Government led to Maurice Bishop's execution and a military council under Hudson Austin. About 7,600 U.S. troops deposed the military government; an interim government took over, elections in December 1984, and the UN condemned the invasion 108–9.

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United States and allies

Grenada and Cuba

Other

United States
Barbados
Jamaica
Antigua and Barbuda
Dominica
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cuba
Soviet Union supporting
Grenada
Ronald Reagan belligerent leader Vere Bird belligerent leader Tom Adams belligerent leader Eugenia Charles belligerent leader Nicholas Brathwaite belligerent leader Edward Seaga belligerent leader Florizel Glasspole belligerent leader Kennedy Simmonds belligerent leader
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John Compton belligerent leader Milton Cato belligerent leader Aurelius Marie belligerent leader Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. belligerent leader Caspar Weinberger belligerent leader Joseph Metcalf, III military commander Jack B. Farris belligerent leader
Fidel Castro belligerent leader Hudson Austin belligerent leader

Strength and losses

United States Strength 7,300 · Killed 19–24 · Wounded 36–116 · Tanks 4 · Aircraft lost c. 9

Grenada Strength 1,300 · Killed 21–45 · Wounded 358 · Guns 12

Cuba Strength 784 · Killed 24 · Wounded 59 · Captured 638 · Aircraft captured 2

Soviet Union Wounded 2

Civilian deaths
24

Units

Delta Force Joint Special Operations Command United States Army Special Forces United States Southern Command XVIII Airborne Corps Hugh Shelton 82nd Airborne Division 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) 17th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
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22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit 504th Infantry Regiment 75th Ranger Regiment 2nd Ranger Battalion Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company United States Navy SEALs United States Air Force Alexus Grynkewich General Buzz Aldrin Colonel Charles P. Cabell Charles Q. Brown Jr. General Chuck Horner General Claire Lee Chennault General Dan Caine Lieutenant General David C. Jones General Ellison Onizuka Lieutenant Colonel George Kenney General George Scratchley Brown General Hoyt Vandenberg Jeffrey L. Harrigian General Jimmy Doolittle General Joseph Ralston General Lauris Norstad General Michael E. Ryan General Nathan F. Twining General Paul Tibbets Philip M. Breedlove General Ralph Jodice II Three-star Rank Richard Myers General Rick Perry Captain Robert Gates First Lieutenant Sonny Perdue Captain Tod D. Wolters General · 1982–present

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