PREMIUM RATE FOOTAGE - aerial around Navy aircraft carrier 360 degrees - middle of ocean - Airplanes - Planes - Ocean - Naval - Military - Chopper - Helicopter - War - Details of all decks - People on decks - Antennas - zoom in deck - details on deck - USS Forrestal

The USS Forrestal aircraft carrier holds a visitor's day while docked in New York City. Some 40,000 visitors young and old alike board the giant ship to see the sights.

VS OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER THE USS FORRESTAL.

!!U.S.S. FORRESTAL NEARS COMPLETION

USS Forrestal aircraft carrier christened in Newport News, Virginia

USS Forrestal (CVA-59) underway in the Atlantic Ocean during a Fleet Review for President Kennedy who is aboard the USS North Hampton (not seen). USS Forrestal is seen firing 8 times during her gun salute as she sails past the North Hampton. View of several destroyers (DD) underway in the review column, including USS John Paul Jones (DD-932), USS Rooks (DD-804), USS Miller (DD-535), USS Hood (DD-655),USS Remely (DD-688), USS Barton (DD-722) and others. Location: Atlantic Ocean. Date: April 14, 1962.

01:21:19:07 VS DOD video of USS Forrestal at sea (0:00) /

Tragedy - Fire Ravages USS Forrestal

Unused / unissued material - <br/> <br/>Title reads: "News of National Defense". American voiceovered newsreel material. <br/>Title reads: "US Christens The Forrestal, Super-Flattop". <br/> <br/>Newport News, Virginia, United States of America (USA). <br/> <br/>AV American supercarrier 'Forrestal' - the biggest and costliest warship yet built - in dry dock. Ground to airship. AV aircraft carrier. Various shots of the christening ceremony by Mrs James Forrestal, wife of the late Defence Secretary. MS Tugs towing ship. VS USS "Forrestal". <br/> <br/>(F.G.)

AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS FORRESTAL FOOTAGE

00:21:41:16 [Barbara bush addresses families &amp; personnel at mayport Naval Air Station] LS soldiers listen to Adm Ready introduce Bush, US flag drapes side of USS Forrestal, folks clap :17/ SOT ...

The USS Forrestal goes on a five-day test cruise prior to her official commission. The giant supercarrier could hold 40,000 people on her enormous flight deck and is under the command of Navy Captain E.D. Edwards.

OUT OF DRY DOCK PHILADELPHIA NAVAL YARD

SHOT OF USS FORRESTAL MOVING THROUGH WATER.

Tonkin, Vietnam. <br/> <br/>Aerial view of the ships of the American Seventh Fleet including the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin off coast of Vietnam. Various shots aboard the carrier Forrestal towards the end of eighteen hour fight showing smouldering fighter planes and general wreckage on the deck. <br/> <br/>(F.G.) <br/> <br/>Date found in the old record - 01/08/1967.

PREMIUM RATE FOOTAGE - low aerial close over Navy aircraft carrier in middle of ocean - F-14 fighter jets & helicopters on deck - pulls back ws and circles ship - Airplanes - Planes - Ocean - Naval - Military - Chopper - Helicopter - War - Details of all decks - People on decks - Antennas - USS Forrestal

Inspection of target fleet following atomic bomb detonated in Operation Crossroads by United States military at Bikini Atoll

Fire aboard aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after rocket accidentally fired. Fire hoses.

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Security camera footage of the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. An airplane takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal off the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. A second aircraft takes off from USS Forrestal. Another plane is about to take off when the camera shifts view to a airplane burning after its fuel tank has been ruptured by a Zuni rocket. Fire grows stronger as it engulfs the other planes parked nearby. Thick smoke envelopes the USS Forrestal. Location: Gulf of Tonkin Vietnam. Date: July 29, 1967.

AERIAL PAN OF AIRCRAFT CARRIER DECK USS FORRESTAL

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