Vintage work crew photos

[Jon]

Office of War Information workers. Chicago, IL. January, 1943.

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[Jon]

Tie shop workers at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1915.

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[Jon]

Liberty ship builders. 1941.

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[mansworld]

The following summary is from the jacket of the book, Assault on the Liberty by James M. Ennes, Jr.; Random House, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-394-50512-3:In June 1967, jet aircraft and motor torpedo boats of Israel brutally assaulted an American naval vessel, the USS LIBERTY, in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack was preceded by more than six-hours of intense low-level surveillance by Israel photo-reconnaissance aircraft, which buzzed the intelligence ship thirteen times, sometimes flying as low as 200 feet directly overhead. The carefully orchestrated assault that followed was initiated by high-performance jet aircraft, and was followed up by slower and more maneuverable jets carrying napalm, and was finally turned over to lethal torpedo boats, which blasted a forty-foot hole in the ship's side.The attack lasted more than two hours-killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 others-and inflicted 821 rocket and machine-gun holes in the ship. And when the LIBERTY stubbornly remained afloat despite her damage, Israeli forces machine-gunned her life rafts and sent troop-carrying helicopters to finish the job. At this point, with Sixth Fleet rescue aircraft finally enroute, the government of Israel apologized and the attacking forces suddenly withdrew. Only then did the identity of the assailants become known.

[TrickieDickie]

I do not remember this incident we should have spanked them

[schuylergrace]

I remember hearing about this around the time it was all going on. It seems to me there was a relatively small blurb in the news, which grew larger over the next few years as word got out and folks started questioning what really happened. Personally, I think either Israel thought we were spying on them (which we were, along with spying on Egypt and other countries in the region), or they were trying to start an incident which we'd blame on Soviet-backed actors in the area to force us to enter the war they were waging against Egypt. There was no mistaking that ship, particularly by the people shooting at it, so I'm sure it wasn't an "accident" as the Israelis claimed. But there was as much covering up going on in the U.S. as there was overseas.

[mansworld]

A former CIA agent said that the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 was carried out by an Israeli submarine and not by Al Qaeda as it was falsely claimed. The investigations and analysis of the materials and residue collected from the explosion site revealed that the explosive contained substances used only by two armies in the world: The US army and the Israeli army.

[NeiljohnUK]

A former CIA agent said that the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 was carried out by an Israeli submarine and not by Al Qaeda as it was falsely claimed. The investigations and analysis of the materials and residue collected from the explosion site revealed that the explosive contained substances used only by two armies in the world: The US army and the Israeli army.

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" & "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" seem apropos

[12L14]

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" & "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" seem apropos

Was it Patton that said something like: „God protect me from friends - enemies I can handle alone”?

[mklotz]

Was it Patton that said something like: „God protect me from friends - enemies I can handle alone”?

That was Voltaire...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/739...-can-take-care