Vietnam:
United States Navy Aviation Structural Mechanic, Hydraulics, Third Class. He was killed in action aboard the USS Forrestal when a Zuni rocket accidentally fired from an F-4 Phantom parked on the starboard side of the flight deck. It streaked across the deck into fuel tank on a parked A-4D Skyhawk which ignited spreading flames over the flight deck caused ordinance to explode and other rockets to ignite. The flames spread by the wind engulfed the flight deck into a blazing inferno. He was one of one hundred and thirty-four men to lose their lives in this incident.
United States Navy Aviation Structural Mechanic, Hydraulics, Third Class. He was killed in action aboard the USS Forrestal when a Zuni rocket accidentally fired from an F-4 Phantom parked on the starboard side of the flight deck. It streaked across the deck into fuel tank on a parked A-4D Skyhawk which ignited spreading flames over the flight deck caused ordinance to explode and other rockets to ignite. The flames spread by the wind engulfed the flight deck into a blazing inferno. He was one of one hundred and thirty-four men to lose their lives in this incident.
Vietnam:
United States Navy Aviation Structural Mechanic, Hydraulics, Third Class. He was killed in action aboard the USS Forrestal when a Zuni rocket accidentally fired from an F-4 Phantom parked on the starboard side of the flight deck. It streaked across the deck into fuel tank on a parked A-4D Skyhawk which ignited spreading flames over the flight deck caused ordinance to explode and other rockets to ignite. The flames spread by the wind engulfed the flight deck into a blazing inferno. He was one of one hundred and thirty-four men to lose their lives in this incident.
United States Navy Aviation Structural Mechanic, Hydraulics, Third Class. He was killed in action aboard the USS Forrestal when a Zuni rocket accidentally fired from an F-4 Phantom parked on the starboard side of the flight deck. It streaked across the deck into fuel tank on a parked A-4D Skyhawk which ignited spreading flames over the flight deck caused ordinance to explode and other rockets to ignite. The flames spread by the wind engulfed the flight deck into a blazing inferno. He was one of one hundred and thirty-four men to lose their lives in this incident.
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LARRY D HOLLEY is on the Wall at Panel 24E Line 026
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