In 1948, the country’s first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, ordered the USS ... deck. The CVA-58 attack carrier was essentially the Navy’s bid to compete with the Air Force’s plans ...

In 1948, the country’s first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, ordered the USS ... deck. The CVA-58 attack carrier was essentially the Navy’s bid to compete with the Air Force’s plans ...

The ship was the mammoth aircraft carrier USS Forrestal—a floating skyscraper more than three football fields long with four acres of deck space, ten deck levels, 2,000 compartments, and a crew ...

by regurgitating an old, fabricated account of what caused a catastrophic fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal ... conflagration on the deck of the Forrestal. For example, Liberty ...

The USS Forrestal ... to be scrapped in the coming years. The Forrestal is best known for a devastating fire in 1967 that engulfed the ship's flight deck, killing 134 sailors and wounding 161 ...

And when he descended down into the USS Forrestal in the immediate aftermath ... racing across the flight deck and hitting the fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. Heated by the fire, another bomb ...

Flack Logan had just started the engines of his F-4 Phantom II when he noticed something flash across the flight deck of the USS Forrestal cruising off the coast of Vietnam 30 years ago Tuesday.

Peter Booth couldn't help but think of the past nearly every day of the two years he commanded the USS ... flight deck and hangar deck in foam,'' Booth said. "The big lesson from the Forrestal ...

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 ...