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The fire that melted through USS Forrestal
In July 1967, USS Forrestal was preparing another strike on North Vietnam when a misfired Zuni rocket tore into a fuel tank on the packed flight deck. Burning fuel spread beneath armed aircraft, and ...
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On July 29, 1967, the USS Forrestal burned for 17 hours — 134 sailors died and John McCain was almost one of them
At 10:50 a.m. on July 29, 1967, a Zuni rocket misfired in its launcher aboard the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, igniting a 17-hour inferno that killed 134 sailors and destroyed 21 aircraft. A ...
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