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July 4, 1988 | From Reuters
Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlueter thanked the United States on Sunday after a U.S. frigate went to the aid of a Danish supertanker under Iranian attack in the Persian Gulf. The frigate Elmer Montgomery, which aided the 337,733-ton Karama Maersk on Saturday after a grenade assault by three gunboats about 13 miles south of Abu Musa island, was the first U.S. warship to fire in defense of a neutral tanker attacked by Iran in the Gulf.