Contents

Epigraph

1. Cast Your Fate to the Wind

2. The Safest Place to Be

3. Young Men and Old

4. Their Greatest Fears

5. Journey to Vietnam

6. On Yankee Station

7. Fire on the Flight Deck!

8. One Minute and Thirty-four Seconds

9. Stay on the Job!

10. Keep Up Your Very Good Work

11. They Were Sailors to the End

12. I Don’t Want to Screw Up

13. I’m Ready to Go

14. Injuries, Multiple, Extreme

15. Investigations

16. Iceland

Epilogue

Killed on Board USS Forrestal, July 29, 1967

USS Forrestal Flight Deck

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

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