The plane on fire image is impressive. What I found astonishing was the number of men who were able to walk away from that.
I had the same impression about the USS JFK-Belknap collision.
I came aboard the Kennedy some months after that happened and had it described to me by the guy who was training me. It was the first night I was aboard a ship after I joined the Navy, and we sat on the edge of the flight deck while the JFK was tied up at Pier 12 the night before we left. ADAN Delgado had been working on the flight deck that night as a plane captain, and he was assigned to "break me in". He told me that he saw a little bouncing red light at just about flight deck level, right from the area we were sitting. He said the red light was bobbing and swaying a bit, and he didn't know what it was. A split second later he felt the ship shudder and saw a huge plume of orange flame shoot into the sky.
The bobbing red light was the mast light of the USS Belknap as she circled in the dark, eventually colliding head on with the overhang of the JFK's flight deck on the port side. He said you could see the superstructure melting, and running in a molten river down the side of the ship into the water.
Now, that was a very vivid description he gave, and it has stuck with me. But I only saw the pictures of the Belknap a few years ago, and it astonishes me that anyone lived through that, but even more so that only 7 men were killed overall (one died on the JFK)
She was a fine looking ship. Not sure how capable she was, but I think her cruiser class has the most beautiful lines of any post WWII cruiser built. 
Here is what she looked like the day after:
Anyway, when I saw that image of the Hellcat on fire...you think "How can anyone walk away from that?"
But men do.