A fire on a United States Navy carrier stationed off the coast of Vietnam kills 134 service members on this day in 1967. The deadly fire on the USS Forrestal began with the accidental launch of a rocket.(c)Forrestal seemed to be on the road to recovery, having regained 5.5 kg (12 pounds) since his entry into the hospital. However, in the early morning hours of May 22, his body, clad only in the bottom half of a pair of pyjamas, was found on a third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen across the hall from his room.[26] Forrestal's last written statement, which some have alleged was an implied suicide note, was part of a poem from Sophocles' tragedy Ajax:
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