Brad Jones posted a status
Jul 9, 2022
55 years ago, RVAH-11 was part of the Air Wing aboard USS Forrestal (CVA-59) in Tonkin Gulf off the coast of North Vietnam.


The link, below, takes you to the U.S. Naval Institute's August 2022 edition of Naval History magazine. Nice to know we're still remembered now and then.

Brad

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/august/d...
Dissecting a Carrier Disaster
It was the worst U.S. carrier fire since World War II; here is an analysis of what befell the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) on Yankee Station in 1967.

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