JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The 1967 USS Forrestal fire is considered one of the greatest tragedies in U.S. Navy history. In all, 134 sailors died when several bombs went off on the flight deck. Many of the ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- The U-S-S Forrestal fire, to this day, remains the Navy's biggest disaster in a combat zone since World War II. On the 50th anniversary of that fateful day, former shipmates ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: USS Forrestal had been the U.S. Navy’s first “supercarrier” and was the largest ever built when she was commissioned in 1955. As of Tuesday evening, the U.S. Navy ...

Beginning in August 2017 and well into the fall, a series of pro-Trump fake news web sites took aim at the reputation of Trump administration critic Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by regurgitating an old, ...

On July 29, 1967, the accidental firing of a rocket caused the death of 134 sailors aboard a U.S. Navy carrier. The USS Forrestal was stationed off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. It ...

Frank Eurice was soaking up the sun on the starboard gun mount of the supercarrier USS Forrestal when he turned and saw a jet blasted into fiery confetti. “It was just a sheet of smoke and flame going ...

All Cathy Lowe has left of her brother Billy is a big box of military mementos and her memories. There’s the flag from his casket. An empty slug from the 21-gun salute at the Orlando sailor’s burial.