WTKR

Honoring the victims of the USS Forrestal fire 53 years later

NORFOLK, Va. - Wednesday marks 53 years since a deadly fire broke out on the former USS Forrestal aircraft carrier, killing more than one hundred men. The ship was the first of the Navy's ...
WarsofTheWorld on MSN

How one rocket blew a US carrier in half

This video walks through the morning when a single rocket misfire turned USS Forrestal into a floating furnace. Fully armed ...
Penn Live

Running ‘into the flames’: The disaster aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 that killed 134 men

F4 Phantom jets sat armed and fueled ready to participate in air raids during the Vietnam War. Pilots sat in their planes on the carrier USS Forrestal when the unthinkable happened when a Zuni rocket ...
Washington Examiner

Surviving the USS Forrestal fire

Sometimes the stories I encounter in this job leave me stunned. To wit, I recently spoke with Aviation Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Anthony O’Malley, who served aboard the USS Forrestal during a ...
WTKR

Remembering the USS Forrestal deadly fire 50 years later

NORFOLK, Va. - It has been 50 years since a deadly fire on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. On July 29, 1967, the Forrestal was off the coast of Vietnam for combat operations in the ...
WUSA

A half-century later, USS Forrestal fallen to be remembered

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- The U-S-S Forrestal fire, to this day, remains the Navy's biggest disaster in a combat zone since World War II. On the 50th anniversary of that fateful day, former shipmates ...
Post and Courier

USS Forrestal reunion brings together all who served

Merv Rowland was the chief engineer aboard the 80,000-ton USS Forrestal when a portion of the aircraft carrier went up in flames off the coast of Vietnam in 1967. It was his job to direct efforts to ...
News4Jax

USS Forrestal Fire Survivors Reunite

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The 1967 USS Forrestal fire is considered one of the greatest tragedies in U.S. Navy history. In all, 134 sailors died when several bombs went off on the flight deck. Many of the ...
Penn Live

USS Forrestal sailors were heroes ‘of the first magnitude’ during 1967 disaster

On July 29, 1967, the accidental firing of a rocket caused the death of 134 sailors aboard a U.S. Navy carrier. The USS Forrestal was stationed off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. It ...
The Virginian-Pilot

50 years after deadly fire aboard USS Forrestal, tragedy still fresh in the minds of sailors

Frank Eurice was soaking up the sun on the starboard gun mount of the supercarrier USS Forrestal when he turned and saw a jet blasted into fiery confetti. “It was just a sheet of smoke and flame going ...
National Security Journal on MSN

Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60) Has a Message for the Navy

USS Saratoga (CV-60) was one of the Forrestal-class “supercarriers” that carried American power into the Cold War’s hottest moments. -Commissioned in 1956, “Super Sara” deployed repeatedly to the ...