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On October 26, the ship was struck by two 250 kg bombs that killed 44 men and wounded 75. [10] Pinckney's battle station was an ammunition handling room on the ship; [2] when one of bombs penetrated the flight deck; the explosion knocked Pinckney unconscious and killed four of the other five sailors in the compartment with him. [1]
The fires were brought under control relatively quickly (when compared with previous carrier flight deck fires), but 27 sailors were killed, and an additional 314 sailors were injured. The fire destroyed 15 aircraft, and the resulting damage forced Enterprise to put in for repairs at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii, primarily to repair the ...
The aircraft rolled to the left and the aircrew ejected. The pilot, COTAC (NFO in co-pilot's seat) and Senso were killed. The Tacco survived with minor injuries. This occurred during transit between the Philippines and Hong Kong aboard USS Enterprise. Pilot Charles Roy experienced catastrophic aileron connecting rod failure immediately after ...
A US sailor who served in Japan has been accused of espionage by the US Navy and is facing a court martial on charges including communicating national defense information to a citizen of a foreign ...
One of the hijackers, Mohammed Ali Hammadi, was arrested two years later in Frankfurt, Germany. He was tried and convicted of Stethem's murder and sentenced to life in prison but was released in 2005 after serving 19 years. Three others, Imad Mugniyah, Hassan Izz-Al-Din, and Ali Atwa, were eventually indicted for their involvement in the incident.
Federal officials at a news conference in San Diego declined to specify whether the sailors were aware of each other's actions. ... a 22-year-old sailor assigned to the San Diego-based USS Essex ...
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 ...
In a 2014 incident, three U.S. sailors were assaulted by about 20 people in Istanbul who claimed to be from the group while the sailors were on leave from the destroyer USS Ross, which had docked ...