Soldiers in battle dress work shoulder-to-shoulder across a shattered concrete slab, their shovels and picks rising and falling in grim rhythm — this is the aftermath of the deadliest single-day death toll for the U.S. Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. On October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a truck laden with 12,000 pounds of explosives into the Marine Headquarters at Beirut International Airport, killing 241 American servicemen as they slept. Photographer Stuart Franklin, later a Magnum Photos member, captured this searingly documentary image of the search for survivors amid the pancaked rubble. Published by Coral-Lee and Mike Roberts Color Productions as part of a remarkable — and deeply unusual — current-events commemorative postcard series, this card includes a politically charged caption noting President Reagan's assumption of "over-all responsibility" and the effect on his public approval. A primary-source artifact of Cold War proxy conflict, the limits of peacekeeping missions, and the particular American postcard industry habit of documenting national tragedy in real time.