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 ...
National Security Journal on MSN

USS Constellation Aircraft Carrier Has A Message for the U.S. Navy

Key Points and Summary – USS Constellation (CV-64), the second Kitty Hawk–class carrier, was a conventionally powered Cold ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The National Interest

Dying Carrier: The Terrible Story of the Fire on the USS Forrestal

Here’s What You Need to Remember: USS Forrestal had been the U.S. Navy’s first “supercarrier” and was the largest ever built when she was commissioned in 1955. As of Tuesday evening, the U.S. Navy ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...