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Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60) Has a Message for the Navy

USS Saratoga (CV-60) was one of the Forrestal-class “supercarriers” that carried American power into the Cold War’s hottest ...
Washington Examiner

Surviving the USS Forrestal fire

Sometimes the stories I encounter in this job leave me stunned. To wit, I recently spoke with Aviation Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Anthony O’Malley, who served aboard the USS Forrestal during a ...
KREM

A half-century later, USS Forrestal fallen to be remembered

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- The U-S-S Forrestal fire, to this day, remains the Navy's biggest disaster in a combat zone since World War II. On the 50th anniversary of that fateful day, former shipmates ...
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The Supercarrier That Launched Fighter Jets to Hijack a Civilian Airliner

The USS Saratoga, a massive Forrestal-class supercarrier, was an exemplary warship throughout the Cold War, but its most ...
Washington Examiner

Former shipmates fight to save USS Forrestal

Jack Lawler Jr. wants to park a 52-year-old aircraft carrier next to Fort McHenry in Baltimore City?s harbor. The USS Forrestal, commissioned in 1955 and considered the first super carrier, could ...
KHQ

Remembering The USS Forrestal Fire

The USS Forrestal (CV-59) was commissioned October 1, 1955, as one of the first “supcarriers.” Named for Navy veteran and politician James Vincent Forrestal, this huge vessel had a busy career in the ...
The National Interest

A Massive ‘Inferno’ Almost Destroyed a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

At this time, the United States was in the second year of what would become one of its costliest, failed conflicts, the Vietnam War. Until 1967, the American carriers that supported the Vietnam War ...