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that morning when we arrived on site

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there were we counted 12 overflights of

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reconnaissance really reconnaissance

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aircraft they took pictures of us they

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knew who we were we were flying the

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American incident and our ship our ship

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looked like a very different kind of

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military ship we first of all were not a

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man of war and we'd had something like

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40 some antennas from stem to stern a

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very modern looking vehicle of what I'm

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trying to say is that he later said that

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they thought we were the Egyptian

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Chapelle crews are and that's that's

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foolish as the Liberty was twice the

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size and it was then we were well marked

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the across the stern with very large

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letters in USS liberty and our flag was

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flying 99% of the time during the attack

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they at that dip one a smaller flag was

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shot down or our captain ordered our

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call it holiday colors to be put up

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which is a very large flag so there was

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no they knew who we were as a matter of

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fact as we were trying to give us in the

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May Day to the 6th fleet part our

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circuits Berg were jammed

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now those frequencies of six frequencies

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that's very important because they knew

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the frequencies we were going to use to

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communicate with the sixth fleet and

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they were jamming them but we did manage

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to finally get through

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