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2133Z 08
June 1967 transmitted message text from
U.S.S. America to
Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
O R 082133Z JUN 67
FM USS AMERICA
TO OASD PA
INFO COMSIXTHFLT
BT
C O N F I D E N T I A L
FLEET PAO SENDS
1. FOLLOWING NEWS COPY FORWARDED FOR YOUR ACTION.
2. QUOTE FOR URGENT COLLECT TRANSMISSION TO NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK PARA.
3. PROFOREIGN DESK SECOND AND NEW LEAD SHEEDANS HARASSMENT
PARA
4. STACKS AND 500 POUND BOMBS ON OTHER TROLLEYS WERE BROUGHT
UP THE ELEVATORS FROM THE MAGAZINES BELOW AND ORDNANCE CREWS
IN RED SHIRTS BEGAN ATTACHING THEM TO THE BOMB RACKS UNDER
THE BELLIES OF SKYHAWKS PARA.
5. OTHER SKYHAWKS WERE ARMED WITH BULLPUP AIR TO GROUND
MISSILES CARRYING FOUR HUNDRED POUND WARHEADS PARA
6. IRONICALLY, SIX SKYHAWKS WHICH HAD BEEN KEPT LOADED WITH
BOMBS AND BULLPUPS IN THE HANGAR BELOW THE FLIGHT DECK FOR THE
PAST TWO DAYS IN THE EVENT AN AIRSTRIKE WAS ORDERED, WERE
DISARMED THIS MORNING AS THE FIGHTING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE
ARAB STATES DIMINISHED. PARA
7. AS THE TWO PHANTOMS AND THE TWO SKYHAWKS ROARED OFF THE STEAM
CATAPULTS IN THE WAIST AT FOUR THIRTY PM LOCAL TIME
AND AN A-3 TANKER FOLLOWED TO REFUEL THEM IN THE AIR, MORE
BOMBS AND MISSILES WERE BROUGHT UP THE ELEVATORS FROM THE
MAGAZINES AND ADDITIONAL SKYHAWKS AND PHANTOMS WERE ARMED FOR
POSSIBLE LATER STRIKES PARA.
8. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE ALERT WAS FAR FROM A DRILL AND WHEN
GIVING THE ORDER TO CLEAR THE DECK FOR TAKEOFF OVER THE LOUD-
SPEAKER THE FLIGHT CONTROL OFFICER USED THE WORD QUOTE STRIKE
UNQUOTE TO DESCRIBE THE MISSION OF THE PHANTOMS AND SKYHAWKS
PARA MORE SHEEHAN
BT
Note: See COMSIXTHFLT 081716Z JUN
67 for reason press copy sent
to OASD(PA).
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