Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Deadly attack on USS Liberty gets new attention

Jim Ennes holds the tattered U.S. flag that flew on his Navy ship when it was attacked June 8, 1967, by Israeli forces. Ennes, who lives northeast of Seattle, wrote a book about the attack.
"There's no way they couldn't have seen that flag," Ennes said. "When it got shot full of holes, we put up a new one."
Seattle Times, here

On June 8, 1967 — 42 years ago Monday — the flag flew over his Navy spy ship, USS Liberty, as it came under assault from an unlikely antagonist — the state of Israel that unexpectedly turned its weaponry on America at the height of the Six-Day War against Egypt.

In a one-sided battle that lasted for more than an hour, Israeli fighter planes unleashed cannon shots, rockets and napalm. Then, an Israeli torpedo boat scored a direct hit that tore a 39-foot-wide hole in the hull. By the time the fighting was over, the Israeli military had killed 34 U.S. crew members and wounded more than 170.

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