Summary

Tragedy - Fire Ravages USS Forrestal

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Tragedy - Fire Ravages USS Forrestal
File Number: DN-LB-584 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 01/01/1967
Subjects: War - Vietnam - Aircraft Carrier Fire; Destruction - Airplanes - Flight Deck - Disaster;
Description: 17:15:24:00 -- 17:16:22:00 Burning wreckage after fire that almost destroys ship and kills 125 Parts of planes on deck, ship off North Vietnam Release sheet--The super-carrier Forrestal is almost lost when accidental fire races the length of its flight deck Set off by exploding jet fuel, the flames kill an estimated-125 crewmen It's the worst Naval disaster since WWII North Vietnam