Bob wrote:Do ya'll know about the U.S.S Forrestal fire that McCain was directly involved in?
You should because McCain was sitting in his aircraft on the deck waiting his turn to launch when a missile accidentally got fired from another plane and it hit either his plane or the one beside it. He had two 1000 lb bombs on his plane and the resulting fire caused at least one of the bombs to dislodge from his plane, roll around on the deck, and then explode.
He barely got out of the plane alive (with shrapnel injuries from the explosion) and then tried to save another pilot who was escaping his plane while on fire.
The fire and explosions killed 134 sailors on board.
Yeah sailors called the ship the USS Forestfire.
There is a great youtube I watched yesterday on that incident...the trained damage control team went in to stop the fire and they all got killed so men without training went in and they got killed then another group went in and finally got it under control....