Posted on Jun 22, 2015
The USS Liberty has never been properly recognized for brave actions in the Eastern Med, is it time?
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The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew-members (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and one civilian), wounded 171 crew-members, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nmi (29.3 mi; 47.2 km) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
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It was a very bad event with lots of background to the story. If one is interested they should read the book "The Attack on the Liberty"
On another note she is the reason Swift has a flag painted on top of the ship.
On another note she is the reason Swift has a flag painted on top of the ship.
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USS Liberty Veterans Association
ON JUNE 8, 1967, while patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was savagely attacked without warning or justification by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of a crew of 294 officers and men (including three civilians), the ship suffered thirty four (34) killed in action and one hundred seventy three (173) wounded in action. The ship itself, a Forty Million ($40,000,000) Dollar state...
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USS Liberty Memorial Library, GRAFTON, Wisconsin
The story of the USS Liberty Memorial Library in Grafton Wisconsin and what the people there went through to get it.
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