Retiree Appreciation Day
Allen Depping retired from the Navy after serving in Vietnam and ultimately giving the military over 20 years of service. His strongest memory during his career, Depping said, was the USS Enterprise fire of 1969 that occurred off the coast of Pearl Harbor while they were preparing to go to war. “I was 60 feet below sea level,” he said, when a Zuni rocket detonated, causing a series of additional explosions. Fires and blasts burned through the flight deck, creating a hole right next to Depping’s bed. Although 28 sailors were killed that day, he was not harmed, but the accident resulted in over 300 injuries and the loss of 15 aircraft.
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