MAKE A MEME View Large Image Enterprise (CVAN-65) fire 1969 aft flight deck aerial view.jpg A catastrophic fire erupted on board the U S Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CVAN-65 while she trained in Hawaiian waters during the forenoon watch on 14 January 1969 <br> ...
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Keywords: USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) fire 1969 aft flight deck aerial view.jpg A catastrophic fire erupted on board the U S Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CVAN-65 while she trained in Hawaiian waters during the forenoon watch on 14 January 1969 <br> Gas turbine exhaust fumes from a No 6 MD3A Aircraft Starter Unit - known as a 'Huffer' - apparently heated a Mk 32 Zuni warhead fitted onto a McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II of Fighter Squadron VF-96 The warhead evidently exploded and the resulting fire ignited fuel and ordnance that spread an inferno across the aft end of the ship The crew bravely fought the fire and saved Enterprise but lost twenty-six of their shipmates killed two men missing presumed dead and not recovered and three hundred seventy-one wounded The fire also destroyed fifteen aircraft and damaged a further seventeen The Big E completed repairs at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard before continuing on her WestPac deployment Official U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/photos/images/L-file/fire1 jpg from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command 1969-01-14 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy 1969 USS Enterprise CVA N -65 fire
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