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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vietnam veteran Bernie Sasse of Onalaska was aboard the USS Forrestal when it caught fire in 1967 in a tragedy that left 134 of his fellow crew members dead. Sasse was present for the Onalaska Area ...

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 ...

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 Gulf of Tonkin ...

A bell rang 134 times Monday on the east knoll of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, each peal in memory of a sailor who died aboard the USS Forrestal 35 years ago. The aircraft carrier was in the Gulf of ...

Last night, John McCain went on at length about his imprisonment in Vietnamese POW camps, and indeed his time as a captive in Vietnam has been the spark to his political career since the 1970s. But ...