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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffworks: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The359: [qb] I think this would be playing a bit of devil's advocate, but... Are all Israeli fighter pilots trained to identify every single type of naval ship in the world? Their superiors may be at home, but I don't think you could take a random Israeli pilot, show him a picture of a ship, and have him identify its type and what country it is from.[/QUOTE][/qb] Israeli pilots are some of the best trained in the world, at present. No clue what they were like back then, but their contemporaries likely have an extensive background in silhouette recognition. U.S. pilots are trained this way and we set the standard for what the Israeli AF uses for the training of their aircrews. They've just done the typical Israeli thing and improved upon it. [i]Liberty[/i] didn't have a silhouette that could be mistaken for very many other types of ships, so I think the odds of it being an "honest mistake" are fairly small. [QUOTE][qb]Second, how is the communications officer able to be sure that the Israeli pilots confirmed they were firing on a American ship? Wouldn't they be speaking Hebrew? Would he be able to translate Hebrew?[/QUOTE][/qb] U.S. "Spy Planes" are generally manned by linguists, who are trained in both understanding the language and analyzing the information it represents. This has been the case since the U.S. first started putting these linguists on-board reconn birds like this might have been. Of course, I'm also somewhat armchair quarterbacking what the "sply plane" contained, but I'm willing to lay good money down that there were Hebrew linquists on-board. The ship was an Intell Ship, so it [b]very[/b] likely had linguists on board, as well. That was it's job, after all: monitor communications and report back all intelligence it gathered while on-station. [QUOTE][qb]Third, and this one is just an idea in my head, but couldn't the Israeli pilots have interpreted the raising of the American flag as an attempted deception by the "Egyptians" to trick the Israeli's into believing that they were attacking an ally? I don't know about you, but it'd be a trick I'd use to try to sneak past someone who is attacking me... [/qb][/QUOTE]Certainly possible. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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