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Caption: Crews continue to fight the 1967 fire on the flight deck of USS Forrestal. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Caption: A chaplain gives a blessing as bodies of USS Oriskany (CVA 34) crewmen are taken off the ship after the disastrous fire on October 26, 1966. (National Archives and Records Administration)

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