Erasing the Liberty: The Battle to Keep Alive the Memory of Israel's Massacre on the USS Liberty by Philip Tourney

For well over half an hour on June 8, 1967, the United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, was attacked by Israeli air force and navy units with 30-mm cannons and rockets, napalm bombs, machine guns, and finally torpedoes. The Israeli attack killed 34 US Servicemen, and wounded 171—but, incredibly, failed to sink the ship.

The ship took nearly 1,000 cannon and rocket holes—some the size of basketballs—as well as over 5,000 armor-piercing shells, through the skin of the vessel. The Israelis dropped napalm on the defenseless ship and shot at sailors attempting to rescue the wounded and put out fires, as well as firing on all the remaining life rafts, a war crime.