On this day, 14 March 1970, two American sailors aboard the SS Columbia Eagle, carrying 10,000 tons of napalm for the US military in Vietnam, mutinied in protest at the war and sailed the ship to Cambodia.
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Pictured are the sailors, Alvin Glatkowski, left, and Clyde McKay, right, superimposed on the hijacked ship decorated with the peace sign they painted on the flag. https://ift.tt/2CljZ6l