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8 February 1984

✸USS New Jersey shells the Mountain: 288 rounds

AttackerUnited States➜TargetSyria / Syrian Army

On 8 and 9 February 1984 the American battleship New Jersey fired 288 16-inch shells at Syrian and Druze positions in the Mountain, in the heaviest naval bombardment since the Korean War; the commander of the Syrian forces in Lebanon, officers and civilians were killed, and it was the last chapter of the American intervention.

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