Sometimes the stories I encounter in this job leave me stunned. To wit, I recently spoke with Aviation Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Anthony O’Malley, who served aboard the USS Forrestal during a ...

It has been 50 years since a deadly fire on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. On July 29, 1967, the Forrestal was off the coast of Vietnam for combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin ...

The 57 th anniversary of the USS Forrestal fire, one of the worst in American naval history, is July 29, 2024. I volunteer at the National WWII Memorial on the National Mall some Saturday mornings. My ...

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 Gulf of ...

Twice in the same day, the clang of fire bells sounded over the Gulf of Tonkin, and the cry of “Fire! Fire! Fire!” issued from the loudspeaker of the U.S.S. Forrestal, the Navy’s third largest ...