On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USSLibertywas suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidd...
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 the war came amazing British inventions: the cavity magnetron, the electronic computer, the world’s most advanced jet engines, anti-submarine electronics, the proximity fuse, as well as the Liberty ship (a Sunderland design), to name but a few. Massive developments in manufacturing...
The Officers & crew I knew enjoyed the time aboard,the liberty & ports we visited. Glad she became a museum instead of a pile of razor blades. While I served on many ships and bases in my 32 years of service, my time on board the Iowa was the best and favorite time for me. ...
This is synonymous with dying. During WW1 soldiers were given life insurance policies worth $5,000. This was about the price of an average farm so if you died you "bought the farm" for your survivors. iron clad contract This came about from the iron-clad ships of the Civil War. It ...
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 ...
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...
Victorious. I was exited to hear that there are still some surviving members from the Pacific campaign. I live in Australia and will be in the the UK in mid to late September 2013. I would love to meet the survivors and speak to them about there time in the Pacific. Would this be ...