Remembering The USS Forrestal

Special Guest: Gregory A. Freeman

Freeman, the author of “Sailors To The End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forestal and the Heroes Who Fought It”, joins The Housing Hour this week to discuss the 50th Anniversary of the deadly explosions and fire that occurred on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal on July 29, 1967.

Mortgage Investors Group’s very own Bob Thompson was on board that fateful day when 134 sailors lost their lives.

Gregory Freeman explains the series of catastrophic events that caused a Zuni rocket to mistakenly fire and cut through John McClain’s plane spilling hundreds of gallons of highly volatile jet fuel on the flight deck and dislodging one of his 1000 pound, WWII era, bombs. The result was nine horrific explosions and raging fires that killed 134 men and wounded hundreds of others.

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