After a military coup and the deposition of the revolutionary Grenadian prime minister by Communist hard-liners, the US Marines invaded teh Caribbean island of Grenada in order to rescue 800 American students enrolled at St. George’s School of Medicine. Invading American forces found a major arsenal of weapons and suffered nineteen deaths and 119 injured in the conflict. After the successful invasion, an elected government was installed in Grenada, ending the threat of a Communist takeover there.