Ship Without A Country; Eyewitness Accounts of the Attack on the USS Liberty by Victor Thorn

Author:Victor Thorn [Thorn, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: American Free Press
Published: 2016-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

PHOTO SECTION

USS LIbertysits in Portsmouth, Va., a year before the attack.

Too little, too late: A U.S. Navy ship (background) and helicopter (above bow) prepare to help remove the dead and wounded.

A view of a small portion of the Israeli torpedo hole as seen from the waterline.

The USS Libertylimps into Malta for repairs and the recovery of dead sailors still entombed below decks.

Hundreds of rockets and machine gun rounds tore into Liberty’s superstructure.

Amazingly, the crew of the Libertykept her afloat despite this massive torpedo hole, 34 dead men and more than 170 injured. Had the story of the attack on the Libertybeen told—and not suppressed—the heroic actions of the crew and captain to save the ship and the remaining crew would have gone down in the annals of U.S. maritime history.

Above are two photos of some of the wounded members of the crew of the USS Libertyand their visitors in the mess hall, which had been converted into a makeshift medical ward. More than 171 U.S. servicemen were seriously wounded in the attack. To add insult to serious injury, the men of the USS Libertywere ordered to hide details of the attack from the public.

The main blast area from inside the USS Liberty.

Above, caskets are brought aboard the Libertythat would then carry the bodies of the dead recovered from the area of the ship devastated by the Israeli tor

pedo and inaccessible to crewmen until Libertygot to dry dock in Malta.

Above, Master Chief Stan White, survivor of the attack on the Liberty, at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, D.C.

A color guard stands in dress uniform at the mass grave at Arlington National Ceme

tery bearing the names of six men killed aboard the Libertyon June 8, 1967. SECTION TWO—EDITED BY MARK GLENN

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