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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last night, John McCain went on at length about his imprisonment in Vietnamese POW camps, and indeed his time as a captive in Vietnam has been the spark to his political career since the 1970s. But ...