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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I miss you and love you -
From his wife, |
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The IncidentOn 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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