U.S. NAVY 6th FLEET IN LEBANON CRISIS 1958 27772

Produced by the U.S. Navy as a recruiting film, “Summer Incident“ starts out in typical fashion following fleet operations but then, about five minutes into the story, a message arrives and -- all liberties are cancelled. The rest of the film shows the preparations for and the landing of Marines in Lebanon in the summer of 1958 to guarantee the sovereignty of that country and protect U.S. civilians. The 1958 Lebanon crisis was a Lebanese political crisis caused by political and religious tensions in the co