1986 United States bombing of Libya

1986 United States bombing of Libya; (Operation El Dorado Canyon)
	Part of the Cold War
	; An American 48th Tactical Fighter Wing F-111 aircraft takes off from RAF Lakenheath in April 1986 to participate in an air strike against Libya.
Date	15 April 1986
Location	Libya
Result	Both sides claimed victory Ground targets destroyed; Failed Libyan Scud missile response; Survival of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi;
Belligerents
United States	Libya
Commanders and leaders
Ronald Reagan	Muammar Gaddafi
Casualties and losses
One F-111 shot down; 2 aircrew killed; Libyan claim: 3 aircraft shot down	45 soldiers and officials killed; 3–5 IL-76s destroyed; 14 MiG-23s destroyed; 2 Mil Mi-8s destroyed; 5 major ground radars destroyed
	15–30 Libyan civilians killed

The United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps carried out air strikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, against Libya on 15 April 1986 in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing ten days earlier, which U.S. President Ronald Reagan blamed on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. There were 40 reported Libyan casualties; one U.S. plane was shot down. One of the claimed Libyan deaths was of a baby girl, reported to be Gaddafi's daughter, Hana Gaddafi. However, there are doubts as to whether she was really killed, or whether she truly existed.

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