FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For sailors on the U.S.S. Enterprise, Jan. 14, 1969, seemed like any other day - until it wasn’t.

The aircraft carrier was 80 miles off the coast of Hawaii, far from the fighting in Vietnam.

But at 8:19 in the morning, the silence was shattered when an overheated rocket on the flight deck triggered a chain reaction of explosions that killed 28 sailors and injured hundreds of others.

Danny Noe was asleep in the room directly below the first explosion. “I survived. Two of my mates did not, and I luckily got out just in time,” Noe explained.

He says the blast threw him into the wall, and when he came to, his first instinct was to run. His two friends, who were in the same room, ran to the right; he ran to the left.

“If I had gone to the right, I would probabl

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