USS Liberty survivors ask Defense Department probe of war crimes charges against IsraelWILLIAM C. MANN, Associated Press Writer
USS Liberty: Dead in the Water: Directed by Christopher Mitchell. With Nigel Anthony, Richard Helms, Robert McNamara. During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American ser
from Constellation intercepted the raiders and sank all three within minutes. The destroyers picked up 19 survivors for questioning. While in the Gulf of Tonkin Gulf refueled helicopters by a new in-flight refueling process enabling them to rescue American pilots downed in hostile territory....
he told me as we sat in the mess hall that he screamed for survivors to follow him, fighting immense smoke and heat and had to make the decision to close the hatch. To this day, I credit him for saving the ship. God bless the 47 shipmates that died on April 19th, 1989. North ...
I'd been in the Army, to High School, an aircraft factory worker and to war and back as a sailor in the navy. I was only 17 years old, but now an older 17. Fortunately, I still had a young boy's body with all it's urges, so was thinking of my one-week Liberty and ...
1820 Completed transfer of survivors. – R.J. Fisher, Lt., USNR Position at 2000: 178° 26’ E, 18° 08’ S 2000-2400 Moored as before. 2000 Liberty party left ship. – R.T. Hanley, Lt., USNR To date I have only been able to identify seven of the U.S.S. Dempsey’s ...
After the Chapel service Subbase opened up “Small Stores” for us because we had lost everything when the boat went down.After getting clothes from “Small Stores” we went to our berthing area in the Barracks.The only direction we got that night was, “you can have liberty, just don’...
After Christmas liberty at Yokosuka Japan she returned to active operations in the South China Sea in January 1966. At the conclusion of that duty late in the month she set course for home arriving in San Diego on 6 February. She spent the remainder of 1965 in the eastern Pacific. After ...
A massive cover-up has endured to this day, and the attack on the Liberty remains the only maritime incident that has not been investigated by Congress. But many survivors and senior government officials say that the attack was no accident, including Secretary of S...
USS Liberty Survivors Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Israeli AttackAs the eyes of the world were focused on former FBI Director James Comey's congressional...Sprusansky, Dale