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attacked without warning or justification by air and naval forces of the state of Israel.  Of a crew of 294 officers and men (including three civilians), the ship suffered thirty four (34) killed in action and one hundred seventy three (173) wounded in action.  The ship itself, a Forty Million ($40,000,000) Dollar state of the art signals intelligence (SIGINT) platform, was so badly damaged that it never sailed on an operational mission again and was sold in 1970 for $101,666.66 as scrap. At 1400 hours, while approximately about 17 nautical miles off the northern Sinai coast and about 25 nautical miles northwest of El bridge radar crew observed high speed aircraft pas*ing over the surface returns on the same heading.  Within a few short moments, and flights of Israeli fighter aircraft continued to prosecute the attack with rockets, cannon fire, and napalm. communications jamming The initial targets on the ship were the command bridge, communications antennas, and the four .50 caliber machine guns, placed on the ship to repel boarders. After the Israeli fighter aircraft completed their attacks, three Israeli torpe*o boats arrived and began a surface attack about 35 minutes after the start of the air attack. The torpe*o boats launched a total of five torpe*oes, had been killed in the earlier air attacks, were killed as a result of this explosion.. SIXTH FLEET ABANDONS USS LIBERTY UNDER FIRE. DOD APPROVES OF THEIR ACTION. by or against U.S. personnel, enemy persons, or any other individual are reported promptly, investigated thoroughly, and, where On June 8, 2005 the USS Liberty Veterans As*ociation submitted A Report of War Crimes Committed Against the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 The War Crimes Report we filed lists allegations of acts committed during the attack on our ship, including: recalled, Sixth Fleet personnel listened to our calls for help as the attack continued knowing they were forbidden to come to our The Department of Defense has unilaterally waived its obligation under the Department of Defense Law of War Program by refusing to