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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To this day, retired Navy Capt. Flack Logan carries a flashlight with him. He's seen day turn to night in an explosive instant and watched clear skies swallowed by blanket-upon-blanket of smoke and ...