The National Interest

The Day an Aircraft Carrier Almost Died: Remembering the USS Forrestal Fire of 1967

As of Tuesday evening, the U.S. Navy announced that it had made “significant progress” toward putting out the fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. While it ...
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 ...
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 ...
WVEC

Remembering the devastating USS Forrestal fire, 53 years later

NORFOLK, Va. — July 29, 1967, was one of the darkest days in U.S. Navy history. Off the coast of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, a fire broke out on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. It ...
Penn Live

‘Flames raced across the flight deck’: Disaster aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967

The F4 Phantoms on the USS Forrestal were participating in air raids during the Vietnam War. As the crew of the Forrestal prepared for more raids, disaster struck. Jets were lined up on the carrier – ...
UPI

Fire aboard carrier Forrestal kills U.S. service members

SAIGON -- Flaming jet fuel ravaged the decks of the carrier Forrestal today and killed at least 26 American officers and men in the second sea fire tragedy of the Vietnam war. The four-hour holocaust ...