*Ø* Israel kills 34 Americans on US ship
Remember this from school? No, I didn't think so.
1967 Israeli attack on USS Liberty: in a little-known incident of aggression, during Israel's ‘Six-Day War’, the NSA intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked on the boundary line of Sinai Peninsula's international waters north of El-Arish, by Israeli fighter planes and torpedo boats.
In all, 34 American servicemen were killed and 172 wounded in the attacks, or more than two-thirds of the Liberty's 295 crew.
The action included rocket fire, machine-gunning, napalm bombing and torpedoing for more than two hours. Israeli fighter jets machine gunned life-rafts as American crewmen put them in the water. A ship was forbidden to go to Liberty's assistance.
The incident was downplayed by the government, and the media reported that the incident lasted only five minutes and consisted of a single torpedo attack ...
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Remember this from school? No, I didn't think so.
1967 Israeli attack on USS Liberty: in a little-known incident of aggression, during Israel's ‘Six-Day War’, the NSA intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked on the boundary line of Sinai Peninsula's international waters north of El-Arish, by Israeli fighter planes and torpedo boats.
In all, 34 American servicemen were killed and 172 wounded in the attacks, or more than two-thirds of the Liberty's 295 crew.
The action included rocket fire, machine-gunning, napalm bombing and torpedoing for more than two hours. Israeli fighter jets machine gunned life-rafts as American crewmen put them in the water. A ship was forbidden to go to Liberty's assistance.
The incident was downplayed by the government, and the media reported that the incident lasted only five minutes and consisted of a single torpedo attack ...
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives, with more links, at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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