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USS Forrestal
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WATCH: A KC-130F Hercules Operates From an Aircraft Carrier Flight Deck
You Don’t See This Every Day! Back in 1963, a Lockheed KC-130F Hercules tanker conducted a series of test landings and takeoffs from the deck of the USS Forrestal (CVA-59).…
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Watch: The Tragic Forrestal Fire Analyzed and Hard Lessons Learned
The Ship Was Heavily Damaged and Air Wing 17 Was Decimated July 29th 1967 dawned like many others aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) on Yankee Station in the…
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That Time a Navy Hornet Shot Down a Navy Hawkeye
Sadly Blue on Blue Sometimes Happens, But There’s More to This Story On 8 July 1991, a US Navy Grumman E-2C Hawkeye early warning and control aircraft was shot down…
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This Is How The Bedevilers of VF-74 Became “First In Phantoms”
When McDonnell produced the film “The Phantom Joins the Fleet” during 1962 their F4H-1 (later F-4B) Phantom II was a new product. Featuring Fighter Squadron SEVEN FOUR (VF-74) Bedevilers flying…
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