Hydesville Veteran Awarded Medal by DAR
“On 29 July 1967, while serving aboard the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) and deployed to Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin; during flight ops, a missile on an A-4 aircraft fired and exploded a fuel pod on another aircraft resulting in a fire engulfing the aft end of the flight deck in burning fuel. Pilots abandoned their planes, many jumping over the side, leaving them to burn…Eventually the bombs started cooking off and exploding and blowing holes in the flight deck resulting in 139 casualties.”
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