The five-inch Zuni rocket crossed roughly 100 feet of USS Forrestal's crowded flight deck and struck A-4E Skyhawk No. 405. The warhead never detonated, because its arming system worked exactly as ...

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 ...

1967 Forrestal Fire. Preparing for strikes off Vietnam, a flight-deck rocket fired unintentionally, igniting fuel and detonating ordnance among tightly parked aircraft. The chain reaction was ...

The F4 Phantoms on the USS Forrestal were participating in air raids during the Vietnam War. As the crew of the Forrestal prepared for more raids, disaster struck. Jets were lined up on the carrier – ...

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 ...

This article is from the Boston Globe archives. It was originally published on July 31, 1967. Learn more about the Boston 1967 project. SAIGON - Survivors of the explosion-wracked U.S. carrier ...

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 ...

Kenneth V. Killmeyer marks his publishing debut with the release of “Fire, Fire, Fire on the Flight Deck Aft; This Is Not a Drill” (published by AuthorHouse). The book charts the inconceivable story ...

Newport veteran Ronald D. Williams shares his firsthand account of the fire on the U.S.S. Forrestal in 1967 with 10News.