1/4 Killed in Action, USS Liberty
RIP Shipmates
54 Years Ago Today
CT3 William B. Allenbaugh, USN
LCDR Philip M. Armstrong, Jr. USN
SN Gary R. Blanchard, USN
Allen M. Blue, NSA Civilian (CT2 Reserve)
SN Francis Brown, USN
CT2 Ronnie J. Campbell, USN
2/4 CT3 Jerry L. Converse, USN
CT2 Robert B. Eisenberg, USN
CT3 Jerry L. Goss, USN
CTI Curtis A. Graves, USN
CTSN Lawrence P. Hayden, USN
CTI Warren E. Hersey, USN
CTSN Alan Higgins, USN
SN Carl L. Hoar, USN
CT2 Richard W. Keene, Jr., USN
CTSN James L. Lenau, USN
CTC Raymond E.
3/4 Linn, USN
CTI James M. Lupton, USN
CT3 Duane R. Marggraf, USN
CTSN David W. Marlborough, USN
CT2 Anthony P. Mendle, USN
CTSN Carl C. Nygren, USN
LT James C. Pierce, USN
ICFN David Skolak, USN
CTI John C. Smith, Jr., USN
CTC Melvin D. Smith, USN
PC2 John C. Spicher, USN
4/4 GMG3 Alexander N. Thompson, Jr., USN
CT3 Thomas R. Thornton, USN
CT3 Philippe C. Tiedtke, USN
LT Stephen S. Toth, USN
CTI Frederick J. Walton, USN
Sgt Jack L. Raper, USMC
Cpl Edward E. Rehmeyer, USMC
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@RepCloudTX 1/8 On this day in 1967, the #USSLiberty was attacked while steaming in international waters off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula.
2/8 The attack on the #USSLiberty was a deliberate, premeditated, well planned and almost perfectly executed attack by the Israeli military on a lone, freshly painted, well-marked, correctly identified, non-combatant #USNavy ship by the most powerful military in the Middle…
3/8 …East allied with the President of the United States in violation of international law and US Statutes.
Of a crew of 294 officers and men (including three civilians), the ship suffered thirty-four (34) killed in action and one hundred seventy-four (174) wounded in action.
@CarolineDombro2@DavidHarrisAJC I cannot recall offhand if @AJCGlobal has ever claimed we are only “Conspiracy Theorists” spreading a myth about the attack on our ship.
1/8 As many have found, it is a long row to hoe to support the proposition that we are presenting the attack on our ship as part of a grand conspiracy at the highest levels.
We present the facts of the attack. Of what happened to us.
2/8 And what has followed every attack on a US Navy ship since the end of WWII—a Congressional investigation—but has been denied the attack on the #USSLiberty.