It took the US government 10 days to retaliate for the attack by bombing Libya - it took 15 years and the fall of the Berlin Wall to convict the attackers.
The La Belle was popular with American soldiers
The La Belle disco in the city's Schoenberg district was a favourite with American soldiers stationed in Cold War Germany.
Many were there on the night that a two-kilogram bomb packed with plastic explosives and shrapnel exploded close to the dance-floor and ripped through the club at 0140.
Sergeant Kenneth Ford, 21, and 29-year-old Nermin Hannay died at the scene. Sergeant James Goins, 25, would die later in hospital.
Another 229 people were wounded, including 79 Americans. Some were badly maimed by shrapnel, many suffered burst eardrums.
Ronald Reagan was US president at the time, and he blamed Libya for the explosion.
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