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The 1969 USS Enterprise fire was a major fire and series of explosions that broke out aboard USS Enterprise on January 14, 1969, off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. After a Zuni rocket detonated under a plane's wing, the ensuing fire touched off more munitions, blowing holes in the flight deck that allowed burning jet fuel to enter the ship. The ...
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned [12] United States Navy aircraft carrierIn 1958, she became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, and the world, as well as the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name.
VA-35, USS Enterprise: Operation Rolling Thunder: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Bombardier/navigator on A-6A #152944 hit by enemy fire after a night attack near Haiphong [83] Presumptive finding of death [3] until 25 September 2018 when he was accounted for [84] March 1: Scheurich, Thomas E: Lieutenant Commander: US Navy: VA-35, USS Enterprise
A-7B from VA-146 and F-4J from VF-96 burning on USS Enterprise. Six squadron F-4Js were destroyed and ten crewmen killed during the USS Enterprise fire on 14 January 1969. VF-96 embarked aboard USS America for a deployment to Vietnam from 10 April to 21 December 1970. "Showtime 100", the VF-96 F-4J flown for three "kills" by Cunningham and Driscoll
An F-4J of VF-92 hitting barrier on USS America in 1970 An F-4J of VF-92 in flight in 1971-2. The squadron transitioned to the F-4J and deployed again on the USS Enterprise from 6 January 1969 to 2 July 1969 [2]: 421 On 14 January two of the squadron's F-4Js were destroyed in the USS Enterprise fire. [11]
The fire aboard Oriskany would be the first of three major fires aboard American carriers in the latter half of the 1960s. A fire aboard USS Forrestal on July 29, 1967 killed 134 sailors and injured 161, and a fire aboard USS Enterprise on January 15, 1969, killed 28 sailors and injured 314.
VRC-50 C-2A from USS Enterprise VRC-50 C-130F Hercules at NAS Atsugi VRC-50 US-3A on USS Abraham Lincoln in 1993. 2 October 1969, C-2A #152796 crashed on approach to the USS Constellation on a flight from NAS Cubi Point, all 26 passengers and crew were listed as killed in action, the bodies were not recovered.
Logistical Support Command Aircraft Carriers Carrier Air Wing Cruisers / DLG Destroyers / DDG Destroyers Destroyers Destroyers / Destroyer Escorts TF-73 Detachment; Carrier Division 1 USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) Carrier Air Wing 9: USS Canberra (CAG-2) USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) USS Buck (DD-761) USS Renshaw (DD-499)