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Originally Posted by MTI
Didn't one catch on fire while still on the carrier?
I checked my copy of Faith of My Fathers . . Ch 14, some stray voltage cued up a Zuni rocket on a nearby plane and blew up the belly tank on his plane.
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Something like that, but McCain lost three
before he got to SE ASIA. One in flight training, one in Spain, and one flameout while doing something related to the Army Navy Game in Philly.
He earned the nickname "ACE" for downing three planes..his own A/C
