Re: Missles?

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

>   I recently learned that the USS Forrestal was basically gutted by
> fire during Vietnam.	I don't recall what started the fire but it got

Electrical fault in a missile. Oriskany was gutted a year earlier by a
couple of idiots. And the Big E two years later. See
http://www.membrane.com/~elmer/navy/features/fires.html

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