Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, had been supporting terroristic attacks around the world and the attack on the night of 05 April 1986 on the West Berlin 'LaBelle' nightclub was just one of many. Three people were killed and 229 people injured. The thing that drew the attention of the United States was that one of the three people killed at the nightclub was an American serviceman.
On 14 April, President Ronald Reagan ordered a retaliatory strike, and that strike was made the next day at two o'clock in the morning. The United States was supported by the United Kingdom. Eighteen F-111 bombers supported by four EF-111electronic countermeasures aircraft struck targets at the Tripoli Airfield, a naval academy frogman training center and the Bab al~Azizia barracks. Libyan anti-aircraft fire was late to begin, and the United States sustained only one F-111 being shot down with its two captains killed. The Libyans sustained sixty fatalities.
During the bombing of Libya, Sebert Carl Weist Jr., served in the U. S. Navy.
