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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For sailors connected the U.S.S. Enterprise, Jan. 14, 1969, seemed similar immoderate different time - until it wasn’t.
The craft bearer was 80 miles disconnected the seashore of Hawaii, acold from the warring successful Vietnam.
But astatine 8:19 successful the morning, the soundlessness was shattered erstwhile an overheated rocket connected the formation platform triggered a concatenation absorption of explosions that killed 28 sailors and injured hundreds of others.
Danny Noe was dormant successful the country straight beneath the archetypal explosion. “I survived. Two of my mates did not, and I luckily got retired conscionable successful time,” Noe explained.
He says the blast threw him into the wall, and erstwhile helium came to, his archetypal instinct was to run. His 2 friends, who were successful the aforesaid room, ran to the right; helium ran to the left.
“If I had gone to the right, I would astir apt person been dead. It’s heartening, but I'm here," Noe explained. "That's the bully thing, I guess, and unluckily they didn't marque it… They were doing what they did to support everyone, and I conscionable happened to get retired alive.”
After escaping the fire, Noe ran to drawback a hose and assistance combat the flames.
After surviving the detonation and doing what helium could to help, helium was shocked to larn helium had been listed arsenic missing successful action.
“I went up and gave them my sanction a mates of days later, and they said you are MIA, and I said 'As you tin see, I'm here' and they gave maine them someway during the explosion, they got knocked disconnected and were found, and I've had them ever since,” Noe said.
Noe doesn’t cognize wherefore helium survived erstwhile others didn’t, but helium says helium carries their representation with him each day, conscionable similar his canine tags.
