As History.com notes, on this
day in 1967 fire sweep across the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal off the coast
of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin.
It was the worst U.S. naval
disaster in a combat zone since World War II. The accident took the lives of
134 crewmen and injured 62 more. Of the carrier’s 80 planes, 21 were destroyed
and 42 were damaged.
You can read more about the
incident via the below link:
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