USS Forrestal was the first “supercarrier,” larger and far more powerful than previous generations of aircraft carriers. Military aviation underwent a rapid change after World War II, as the jet ...

July 29, 1967. USS Forrestal is preparing to launch combat missions during the Vietnam War when an accidentally fired Zuni rocket strikes a parked aircraft on the crowded flight deck. Within seconds, ...

NEW HANOVER, NC (WWAY) — On July 29th, 1967, the USS Forrestal went up in flames, a turning point in US naval history. To honor the men who were injured or killed that day, the USS Forrestal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Royal Australian Navy will commission the first of three new destroyers today (On 23 September). In continuing our reflective stories of previous ships that have carried the name HMAS Hobart, this is ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The nightmarish accident, combined with two other cataclysmic carrier fires, forced the Navy to implement major reforms of its safety culture—but the Forrestal ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As they each approached forty years of service, the Forrestals were decommissioned one-by-one between 1993 and 1998—but stayed busy right until then. In 1993, Ranger ...

Mediterranean Sea, April 16, 1970: A fisheye lens provides a panoramic view of the USS Forrestal, its escorts and the Mediterranean below them in a photo shot from a helicopter. Looking for Stars and ...

Somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, Apr. 16, 1970: The catapult deckedge operator signals as a C-1 Trader is readied for a catapult launch aboard the USS Forrestal. The ship is conducting operations ...