PO3 Gerald Albert Wehde, Old Monroe, MO on www.VirtualWall.org The Virtual Wall® Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

Gerald Albert Wehde

Petty Officer Third Class
VA-65, CVW-17, USS FORRESTAL, TF 77, 7TH FLEET
United States Navy
Old Monroe, Missouri
December 24, 1943 to July 29, 1967
GERALD A WEHDE is on the Wall at Panel 24E, Line 48

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30 Sepember 2003
Four of my squadronmates died on 29 July 1967,
in the fire aboard USS FORRESTAL on Yankee Station:
Lieutenant Robert E Geller
Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas J Dawson
Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph C Shartzer
Petty Officer 3nd Class Gerald A Wehde
They are remembered.
Mark Whitworth
Attack Squadron 65, 1966-70
E-mail address is not available.

A Note from The Virtual Wall
USS FORRESTAL arrived on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin on 25 July 1967 and immediately began combat operations. The first four days were routine; the fifth day, 29 July, was not.
At 10:52 AM a 5-inch Zuni rocket accidentally fired across the crowded flight deck, impacting an armed A-4 Skyhawk. The resulting explosions and fires raged for 13 hours and more, killing 135 crewmen with hundreds more injured.

More information and a list of the dead are on The Virtual Wall's
USS FORRESTAL Memorial