USS Enterprise 1969 Fire

Sakoshooter48...The big E had a major deck explosion 18JAN1969. My uncle lost his life with many others.

Guys, I'm so sorry! I remember the Forrestal accident vividly, and in the video, it shows the aft deck of the Forrestal. Are there two clips intermingled here?

At 0:37 the shot is of the aft looking forward at the Forestals island! The upper island of the Enterprise is very square. WOW! so my bad, really sorry guys, didn't even know that the big E had had a fire too. Shit never ceases to amaze me!

That's a lot of scrap on the deck!

Forrestal accident! Enterprise NEVER had a devastating deck fire. Someone here has pumped the mutt. Also notice the island @ 0:36. THIS IS NOT THE DECK OF BIG E! This is the Forrestal!

ya it's the Big E was a fire in 1969

Sakoshooter.. There was an Explosion on the Enterprise that killed alot of sailors and if you would watch at 0:58 the back of the ship has ENTERPRISE written on it

130 R.I.P. 60 planes destroyed .All this from a Zuni rocket and human false what can i say..............disaster.

Yes, most of the footage is actually from the fire on Forrestal.

At 25 seconds into the video we see what appears to be two gun turrets trained aft. I know that when the Forrestal-class carriers were orginally launched, and for many years afterwards, they initially were equipped with (if memory serves correctly) 8 5"54 dp guns, each housed in its own turret, 4 guns on each side of the ship. Enterprise was never equipped with such armaments.