The USS Forrestal, one of the first supercarriers built after World War II, was a symbol of US naval supremacy and a key player in global military strategy. Spanning nearly four football fields ...

The 1967 fire on the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier was one of the most devastating naval disasters in U.S. history. It occurred on July 29, 1967, while the aircraft carrier was stationed in the ...

And when he descended down into the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the immediate aftermath of a fire that killed 134 men 50 years ago, there was no darker sight.

The following is a 1973 U.S. Navy documentary Trial by Fire that recounts the actions of the crew of USS Forrestal that saved the ship 50 years ago.

Former crew members of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal gathered along the banks of the Delaware River early Tuesday morning, taking in one last sight of the ship as it began its final voyage ...

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Solt joined the Navy in September 1961. After boot camp and a stint with the crash-and-rescue crew at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, he spent two years on the USS ...

By Thomas Clapper FPS Staff Writer E.S. Tasker, a U.S. Navy veteran and career law enforcement officer, brings powerful ...

USS Forrestal (CVA-59) Crew members fight a series of fires and explosions on the carrier’s after flight deck, in the Gulf of Tonkin, 29 July 1967. The conflagration took place as heavily-armed ...

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 Gulf of ...

The U.S. Navy's first "supercarrier" is being sold for just 1 cent to a ship breaker. The USS Forrestal, launched in 1954 and decommissioned in 1993, is the first of three conventional (non ...

Mediterranean Sea, April 16, 1970: A fisheye lens provides a panoramic view of the USS Forrestal, its escorts and the Mediterranean below them in a photo shot from a helicopter.

Books have been written about the disaster aboard the USS Forrestal. It’s more complex and terrible than space here allows telling.