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John went back to the room and slept for two hours and we got up and he told everybody stories of his crash. >> i don't think it was until the stall that he began to take his military career seriously. >> it was july 29th, 1967, his first combat mission aboard the uss forestal, an aircraft carrier assigned to bombing missions over vietnam. a plane on the deck accidentally fired a missile which struck the fuel tank of the plane mccain was in. mccain escaped the deadly inf n inferno, but others didn't. the fire spread across the ship's deck. >> it was terrible. i'll never forget some hours
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