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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11 Feb 2001

I miss you and love you -
you are a wonderful memory for me.
I can still see your smile and the twinkle in your eye.

From his wife,
Kathy Seater
kmd@execpc.com


 
22 Sep 2002

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Photo courtesy of his sister,
Marilyn Zipsie
mz163@aol.com


 

The Incident

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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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