USS Forrestal Mishap July 29, 1967

my grandfather was there

I grew up being VERY familiar with this fire. My father was serving on Forrestal during this period and I still have his cruise book when this fire occured, color and black and white. I 1st saw the film in bootcamp. I have a VHS copy of the film to this day.

I served on her from 74 to 77 Wonder if the plaque is still in the hanger bay.

ahhhhh reminds me of bootcamp. They still show this video, and probably will for god knows how long...my dad watched this video in bootcamp in like 79.

The crash Chief that died in the explosion was from a town I recruitd in and I ended up putting his son in the Navy.
I was doing his paperwork and looking at his birth cert I saw that he was born in Ports naval hosp and I was like"Hey, you're a navy brat!"
Then I see his dads name and rate and Im like, Hey, I'm an ABH as well" then it hit me!!
I get orders to the forrestal 2 years later and I bump into him down in the galley.
Coincidences to the maximus.

yes on the original fil they say it was McCain coming out of the plane

thousands?

I'm ex-navy too. this film with additional
footage at statr and end is used at
many firefighting training sessions!
humm.... is trere footage of the USS Iowa
explosion circa 1989?

Wow ....he's lucky the fuel probe wasn't slippery since it looks like that's what he used to get enough distance to survive.

my father was on this boat.