Pertinent to the plot: When the Liberty was standing far from the zone of battle, why did they receive a command directive to urgently move closer? And how did the Israelis know that the US was not passing battle intelligence to the Egyptians? I mean, were we so clean at that time? Or that it wasn't an Egyptian ship flying a false flag (which is where the phrase comes from)?

James Doohan (Scotty on "Star Trek") was shot 5 times by a jumpy Canadian sentry in the Allied cross-channel invasion, losing a finger in the event. Was the sentry a Nazi saboteur?