Letter of the Week
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Israel’s Attack on USS Liberty Accident or Opportunity? Air Attack It’s June 8th, 1967. The USS Liberty is patrolling the coast of Egypt’s Gaza Strip. Three days prior, the Israel Defence Forces launched a coordinated aerial attack on Egypt. Using 200 planes and catching the Egyptians by surprise, they successfully destroyed most of their air…
About the Archivist
This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.