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 ...

Late one night in August, the USS Nimitz and the Forrestal took up station in the gulf, about 100 miles off Libya. Our mission was to test Qaddafi’s line by observing Libya’s response to a U.S ...

DESOTO surveillance was resumed by midday on August 3, augmenting the mission by adding another U.S. ship, the USS C. Turner Joy, to patrol the Gulf of Tonkin. However, late in the evening on ...