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Fire ravages U.S. carrier off Vietnam - Jul 29, 1967 - HISTORY.com

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Fire sweeps the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. It was the worst U.S. naval disaster in a combat zone since World War II. The accident took the lives of 134 crewmen and injured 62 more. Of the carrier’s 80 planes, 21 were destroyed and 42 were damaged.

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Many of the burn victims were held at Triplet Army Medical Center in Hawaii until they were fit to transport to CONUS. I was XO of the company there at the time and had to deal with a corpsman who was harassing them. The chief of the neuro-psychiactric ward had been preventing courts martial for offenders (they needed help not punishment). We sneaked this miscreant In for evaluation while the chief was at lunch. I then had h transported to the stockade at Scofield with an armed escort. I had the sergeant get a .45 from the armory and I loaded it while the corpsman watched bug-eyed. I then handed it to the sergeant with instructions to shoot the bastard if he blinked. Word spread quickly through the company and it was amazing to see how discipline returned

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