. >> my friend rony campbell ronnie campbell had a desk right there.said you fellows can do what you want to, i'm going to write a letter home. he began typing, dear eileen you never will know what's happening to us. seconds later, the torpedo struck and killed both the two marines, and my friend ronnie campbell. >> my job was to try to get 20 or 30 wounded marines to the life raft. i looked myself before i tried to get anyone up and that's when i observed a motor torpedo boat, israeli, clearly marked with the star of david, machine gunning our boat. >> the crew were trapped with nowhere run and nowhere to hide. >> the torpedo boats came in closer and began to machine gun the ship using armor piercing projectiles. >> they were leaving holes about that big in the metal plating. peeling it like orange peel. >> at close range the armor piercing rounds ripped true steel hull of the ship. nowhere was safe. >> this bullet was retrieved from one of the navigational books at the rear portion of the bridge. it penetrated the skin of the ship, gone through at le