Sgt. Bryce Lockwood

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517 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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Get to our general quarters stations a little more rapidly.

Get the watertight doors closed a little more rapidly.

Secured from the general quarters.

I was at my berthing spaces in the after part of the ship.

I heard a tremendous noise, roughly two o'clock local time.

I had never been under hostile fire before, but I knew that we were in trouble.

I immediately dropped where I was doing, headed for my general corps station, which was below decks.

Mind you, the cargo spaces in the forward part of the ship was where all of our intelligence people were, roughly 190 men.

The only way out was a narrow, steep ladderway about two feet wide with a railing.

the ship would ring whenever a projectile struck it.

There were 826 large caliber strikes from aircraft aboard her.

40 millimeter cannon fire, 30 millimeter cannon fire, heat-seeking rockets, napalm.

On either side of the ship or starboard, there were racks that contained life rafts with a charge.

You jerk on a cord and charge would go off and fire these life rafts into the sea.

Both of those were napalm.

The captain's gig was riddled with rocket fire.

The Liberty launch was riddled with rocket fire.

Basically, no means of getting any survivors off.

The Israelis were jamming our distress frequencies, which was a violation of international law.

They were using unmarched aircraft, which is a violation of international law.

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