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The USS Liberty was a Belmont-class technical research ship<ref>http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l6/liberty-iii.htm</ref>, belonging to the [[United States Navy]]. The most notable event concerning it was an attack on it in international waters near the town of [[El Arish]] on June 8 1967 (during the [[Six Day War]], by [[Israel|Israeli]] fighter planes and torpedo boats. The attack killed 34 US servicemen and killed 173, making it the second deadliest attack against a US warship since the end of [[World War II]].
==References==
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==Further Reading==
[http://www.nsa.gov/liberty/liber00010.pdf NSA investigation (warning - large (~15Mb) download)