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The 1969 USS Enterprise fire was a major fire and series of explosions that broke out aboard USS Enterprise on January 14, 1969, off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. After a Zuni rocket detonated under a plane's wing, the ensuing fire touched off more munitions, blowing holes in the flight deck that allowed burning jet fuel to enter the ship. The ...
Image from the film The Negro Sailor with a painting showing Pinckney saving Bagwell's life. Pinckney enlisted on August 3, 1938, and attended boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois. He then reported to the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) as a cook. [6] [7] At the time, cook was one of the few ratings open in the U.S. Navy to Black sailors. [8]
As a non-commissioned vessel the prefix "USS" would not have been included in the vessel's name. USS Enterprise (CV-6) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier: 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 Served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, the most decorated ship of that war. Scrapped, 1 July 1958 – May 1960. USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
USS Enterprise (CV-6) photography collection Archived 16 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine (Naval History and Heritage Command) USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier photo archive (NavSource.org) Newsreel coverage of Enterprise being taken to scrapyard (begins at 0:53 mark) A film of the attacks on Enterprise on 24 August 1942. The film was ...
Fireman Second Class William Kubinec, who died when the USS West Virginia sank at Pearl Harbor in 1941, was identified in 2019 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
A-7B from VA-146 and F-4J from VF-96 burning on USS Enterprise. Six squadron F-4Js were destroyed and ten crewmen killed during the USS Enterprise fire on 14 January 1969. VF-96 embarked aboard USS America for a deployment to Vietnam from 10 April to 21 December 1970. "Showtime 100", the VF-96 F-4J flown for three "kills" by Cunningham and Driscoll
The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch's worst warship blaze outside of ...
The lawsuit against EAN Holdings, which does business as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, stems from a fatal crash in January. McClatchy News reached out to Enterprise Rent-A-Car for comment on March 18 but ...