NORFOLK, Va. - Wednesday marks 53 years since a deadly fire broke out on the former USS Forrestal aircraft carrier, killing more than one hundred men. The ship was the first of the Navy's ...

NORFOLK, Va. - 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 ...

Peter Booth couldn't help but think of the past nearly every day of the two years he commanded the USS Forrestal from 1977 to 1979. That's because 10 years earlier on July 29, 1967, a fire broke out ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) -- Remembering a day they wish they could forget. The USS Forrestal Fire resulted in the worst loss of a life on a U.S. Navy ship since World War II. Five decades later, ...

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 ...

John McCain's service in the Vietnam War is mostly remembered for the more than five years that he spent as a prisoner of war after he was shot down over Hanoi on Oct. 26, 1967. But three months ...

Kenneth V. Killmeyer marks his publishing debut with the release of “Fire, Fire, Fire on the Flight Deck Aft; This Is Not a Drill” (published by AuthorHouse). The book charts the inconceivable story ...

As of Tuesday evening, the U.S. Navy announced that it had made “significant progress” toward putting out the fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. While it ...