Loading ....I was talking to a Asian friend about Oct 7 because she didn’t know it wasn’t the first time so sent her this link I found.
I didn’t know who the brass were or Johnson did get a message through who was quick to refuse help with a typical politician useless response, who cares about them. That should of got him up on charges.
Case I can’t load this and the link on one post.
Fifty years ago on June 5, 1967, Israel attacked Egypt. This began the Six-Day War and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Jerusalem which continues to this day. The USS Liberty, a spy ship, unarmed except for four machine guns, was sent to monitor events from international waters off Gaza. All morning on June 8, Israeli reconnaissance planes flew passes over the Liberty. Off-duty sailors sunbathing on the deck testified the planes were close enough to see the pilots as they waved. The sailors waved back. Without warning, unmarked Mirage and Super Mystere jets attacked the Liberty with napalm, rockets, cannon and machine guns. Nine Americans were killed, many wounded and the ship was an inferno. Survivors report that the initial barrage was to knock out the antennas so the ship couldn’t get off a distress call. A sailor managed to run a cable to an unused antenna. The patch worked but the Israelis, against international law, were jamming Liberty’s distress frequencies. They had to stop jamming while they strafed and the Americans were able to use those few seconds to get off a message to the Sixth Fleet.
Twice the Fleet, fifteen minutes away by air, launched jets to help the Liberty. Both times Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered them back. Rear Admiral Larry Geis couldn’t believe it and challenged the second order. Then President Lyndon Johnson repeated the recall order reportedly telling Geis that, “…he didn’t care if the ship sunk, he would not embarrass his allies.”*
About 2 p.m. three Israeli torpedo boats arrived to finish the job. Captain William McGonagle, badly wounded, still on the bridge, evaded the first four torpedoes but the fifth hit Liberty midship killing 25 sailors and blowing a forty foot diameter hole in her below the waterline. The Israeli torpedo boats came in close to machine gun men fighting fires and carrying wounded. Captain McGonagle gave the order to lower life rafts for the most seriously wounded men in case the ship rolled. The Israelis machine gunned and sank those rafts at point blank range
Unknown to Israel, a U.S. Navy EC-121 reconnaissance plane high above the attack made audio recordings, some recently declassified, of Israeli pilots identifying the Liberty as an American ship to Israeli ground control. The pilots were ordered to attack the vessel and sink it.*
