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 ...

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 ...

Peter Booth couldn't help but think of the past nearly every day of the two years he commanded the USS Forrestal from 1977 to 1979. That's because 10 years earlier on July 29, 1967, a fire broke out ...

Sen. John McCain passed away this weekend at the age of 81, following a famous military career and more than three decades in the United States Senate. Back in 1967, McCain was a Navy lieutenant ...

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 ...

John McCain's service in the Vietnam War is mostly remembered for the more than five years that he spent as a prisoner of war after he was shot down over Hanoi on Oct. 26, 1967. But three months ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. — 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 ...

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 ...

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