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Forrestal undergoing sea trials, 29 September 1955. Forrestal's keel was laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding on 14 July 1952. [4] During construction, her design was adjusted several times—the original telescoping bridge, a design left over from the canceled USS United States, was replaced by a conventional island structure, and her flight deck was modified to include an angled landing ...
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. Did You Know: The terrible fire aboard the USS Forrestal was the worst single Naval casualty event of the Viet Nam War? at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 November 2004)
USS Forrestal (left) and USS Saratoga (right) berthed at the Naval Station, Newport, Rhode Island.Forrestal was sold for $0.01 to be scrapped in February, 2014; Naval Sea Systems Command announced in May, 2014 that Saratoga also would be sold for scrap for $0.01.
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 James Forrestal Campus of Princeton University in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey; Forrestal Village, a mixed-use development near Princeton, New Jersey; Michael Forrestal, one of the leading aides to McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser of President John F. Kennedy; Forrestal, a surname of Irish origin
After a work-up cycle that included 2 detachments to NAS Fallon and 3 underway periods on board USS Abraham Lincoln, VFA-137 deployed to the western Pacific on USS Abraham Lincoln in March 2008. Following 7 months at sea, including 5 months in the Persian Gulf supporting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom , the squadron returned home ...
"Firestal" – USS Forrestal "The Five Mile Sniper" – HMAS Brisbane "Flatiron" – HMS Argus; from the shape of the ship "Forrest Fire" "FID (First in Defense)" – USS Forrestal; humorous malapropism, also because of the fire on deck. "Foo-De-Roo" – USS Franklin D. Roosevelt "Fraser Blade" – HMCS Fraser "Freddy" – HMCS Fredericton
In 1954, the USN's new supercarrier was named USS Forrestal in his honor, as is the James V. Forrestal Building, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy. He is the namesake of the Forrestal Lecture Series at the United States Naval Academy and of the James Forrestal Campus of his alma mater Princeton University .