http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5076
June 8, 1967
“Israel attacks USS Liberty”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “ In all, 34 Americans were killed and 171 were wounded in the two-hour attack. In the attack’s aftermath, the Liberty managed to limp to a safe port.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Israel later apologized for the attack and offered $6.9 million in compensation, claiming that it had mistaken the Liberty for an Egyptian ship. However, Liberty survivors, and some former U.S. officials, believe that the attack was deliberate, staged to conceal Israel’s pending seizure of Syria’s Golan Heights, which occurred the next day. The ship’s listening devices would likely have overheard Israeli military communications planning this controversial operation. Captain McGonagle was later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic command of the Liberty during and after the attack.”
A short term anti-semitic bump
they couldn’t sink it or is it thought that they were not really trying to sink it? 4 attacking aircraft for 2 hours bombing and strafing one defenseless ship and it still managed to limp into port? any Ideas Cindy?