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• - •1 = — 1 - Sw ML ' ra a J-LTi - ' ' , Top left: CJSS LIBERTY, inadvertently attacked by Israeli aircraft, June 1967. Opposite bottom: AMERICA crew members view aftermath of Israeli attack. LEFT: AMERICA Corpsmen treat Liberty wounded aboard AMERICA. Top right: carrying GSS LIBERTY wounded aboard. Above: Memorial service for LIBERTY ' S crew. A 13
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LIBERTY INCIDENT On AMERICA ' S second Mediterranean deployment, she was awarded the Battle Efficiency E for the best Atlantic Fleet aircraft carrier. During this 1967 cruise, the Arab-Israeli war erupted in the eastern Mediterranean. At midday, 8 June, the technical research ship, (JSS LIBERTY (AGTR-5), was attacked by unidentified air and sea forces. Within minutes, AMERICA ' S F-4B fighters were airborne to protect the task force and aid LIBERTY, only to find out from Tel Aviv that the attack has been accidentally committed by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats. The next day, AMERICA rendezvoused with the crippled ship south of Souda Bay, Crete, where 50 wounded LIBERTY crewmen were trans- ferred aboard to be treated by the ship ' s doctors and corps- men.
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AMERICA began her first real test as a fighting vessel on 31 May 1968, when she and embarked Air Wing Six com- menced flight operations in the South China Sea. For this war effort, involving not a single accident in more than 18,000 catapult launches and recoveries, AMERICA was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation for exceptionally meritorious service , and her second consecutive Battle Efficiency E . During closely guarded, secret conditions in November, 1969, Lockheed test pilot, Bill Park, demonstrated some historical carrier landings aboard the AMERICA with Lock- heed ' s U-2R reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of Virginia. The purpose of the landings was to demonstrate the plane ' s carrier suitability. A series of landings and waveoff demon- strations were made by Park. I flew standard approaches and took a cut for the landings with no problem , stated Park. The airplane demonstrated good wave off character- istics and I felt at the time that landings could be made without a hook. AMERICA entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 24 Jan- uary, 1969, for a ten-month, twenty-six million dollar over- haul. During this overhaul, the ship ' s machinery and equip- ment underwent extensive repairs and modifications. Two major projects undertaken were a modernization of the ship ' s weapons handling system and the installation of an Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) system. 14
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