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Forrestal fire. from Naval Aviation News, October 1967. Personal account of the USS Forrestal fire, July 29, 1967 at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 April 2009) Virtual Wall: A Memorial to the men who died in the Forrestal fire; US Navy. Witness to History: USS Forrestal Fire Archived 5 November 2004 at the Wayback Machine. 1 August 2002.
In July fires were started on the USS Forrestal and USS Ranger, the eighteenth instance of sabotage aboard the latter vessel, a prime target back home for peace activists’ ‘Stop Our Ships’ agitation.” [45]: 258 The fire on the Forrestal resulted in over $7 million in damage and was the largest single act of sabotage in naval history.
The fire aboard Oriskany would be the first of three major fires aboard American carriers in the latter half of the 1960s. A fire aboard USS Forrestal on July 29, 1967 killed 134 sailors and injured 161, and a fire aboard USS Enterprise on January 15, 1969, killed 28 sailors and injured 314.
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29 July 1967: VA-65 personnel were among those killed or injured during the USS Forrestal fire; July–December 1967: Due to the fire on the USS Forrestal and her departure from combat duty on Yankee Station, VA-65 sent a detachment (Det-64) to the Constellation to augment VA-196 for the remainder of the ship's 1967 combat tour in Vietnam.
Beling was commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal at the time of the July 29, 1967 fire that killed 134 sailors and officers, injured 161, and caused $72 million (1967 dollars) in damage to the ship. The Navy investigation into the fire cleared Beling of wrongdoing.
The operation in the turbulence resulted from a decision to penetrate an area of known severe weather,” NTSB wrote in its final report issued on June 19, 1969.
VA-46 A-4Es burst into flames on 29 July 1967 aboard USS Forrestal. On 25 July 1967, the Clansmen took part in their first combat operations during the Vietnam War flying from USS Forrestal on Yankee Station. A few days later on 29 July, while aircraft were being prepared for the second launch of the day against targets in North Vietnam, a fire ...