File:USS Rupertus turns its fire hoses on Forrestal (USN 1124784).jpg

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English: After a catastrophic fire broke out aboard USS Forrestal (CVA-59) while it was conducting air operations on 29 July 1967, sailors from the USS Rupertus (DD-851) bring their ship close alongside the burning carrier and play their fire hoses along the carrier's flight deck.
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Source US Naval History and Heritage Command, photograph USN 1124784.
Author US Navy

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Sailors from USS Rupertus (DD-851) turn their fire houses on the burning USS Forrestal (CVA-59)

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29 July 1967

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