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1967 USS Forrestal fire
1967 CE · Vietnam, Asia · Disaster
On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, which was engaged in combat in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. The fire was caused by an inadvertently fired rocket. The rocket was a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom rupturing an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk.
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