Robert Lee Hasz
Airman
USS FORRESTAL, TF 77, 7TH FLEET United States Navy Baraboo, Wisconsin August 17, 1945 to July 29, 1967 ROBERT L HASZ is on the Wall at Panel 24E, Line 26 |
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The Incident![]() On 29 July 1967 the USS FORRESTAL was conducting combat operations off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. The ship was preparing to launch an ALPHA strike when a major fire broke out among the crowded aircraft on her deck, resulting in a series of 500 and 1000 pound bomb explosions. Thirteen hours later, the fires were extinguished - and 135 men were dead or dying, with hundreds more injured. Airman Robert Lee Hasz was one of the 135.
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