Two days later, Forrestal returned to Norfolk to be welcomed home by over 3,000 family members and friends of the crew, gathered on Pier 12 and onboard Randolph, Forrestal's host ship. It states, "a Navy jet landing on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Accidental fires ignited three U.S. aircraft carriers during the Vietnam War, killing 206 American sailors and injuring 631 others. The AN-M65A1 bombs had been returned to service specifically because there were not enough Mark 83s to go around. 110,) was spotted on the extreme starboard quarter of the flight deck. TIP #1: Click the F-14 Tomcat sitting on the USS FORRESTAL banner for an animated take-off simulation, TIP #2: Click the control tower on the USS FORRESTAL . These lessons were gradually lost and by 1967, the U.S. Navy had reverted to the Japanese model at Midway and relied on specialized, highly trained damage control and firefighting teams. [1] Firefighter Milt Crutchley said, "The worst was going back into the burned-out areas later and finding your dead and wounded shipmates." [19]:65, The Navy investigation found that four weeks before the fire, Forrestal's Weapons Coordination Board, along with members of the Weapons Planning Board, held a meeting to discuss the issue of attaching the pigtail at the catapult. F-4B Phantom II (VF-11 / CVW-17) embarked on USS Forrestal (CVA 59) was refueled by a KA-6D Intruder of VA-85 - circa 1971-73 . Disaster on USS Forrestal Changed Navy Aircraft Carriers Procedures Wracked by eight high-order explosions of thin-shelled Korean Warvintage bombs and a number of smaller weapons explosions, the worlds first supercarrier was mere minutes away from the bottom of the Gulf of Tonkin. A second bomb exploded nine seconds later and a chain reaction followed. "Before the end of that year, they were . Honoring the victims of the USS Forrestal fire 53 years later - WTKR All seven F-4s caught fire. A motivational film for Navy personnel on the prevention of fire and for learning firefighting damage control measures. Firefighting crews continued to fight fires below deck for many more hours. Crew members aboard USS Forrestal fight fires and explosions on the carrier's after flight deck, July 29, 1967. The brief combat period on Yankee Station was cut short when, on July 29, 1967, the Forrestal fire occurred. In the first, Oriskany suffered a fire on 26 October 1966 on Yankee Station that killed 44 and injured 138 when a magnesium parachute flare was accidentally ignited (human error) and a panicked Sailor threw it back into the magnesium storage locker instead of overboard; many of the dead were pilots killed by toxic smoke inhalation in their sleep. You will be able to zoom in to better read names etc. The ship's four aft 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 guns were removed. The USS Forrestal fire remains the Navy's biggest disaster in a combat zone since World War II.