File:USS Oriskany (CVA-34) fire 1966 stbd side.jpg

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Description Fire fighting water pours our or the hangar of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34) during the hangar fire off Vietnam on 26 October 1966. After a sailor accidentally ignited a flare in the forward hangar bay and a fire erupted that killed 44 men.
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Source U.S. Navy "All Hands" magazine, February 1967 [1]
Author U.S. Navy

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