USS Essex (CVS-9) 1968 MED CRUISE T-Shirt

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USS Essex (CVS-9) 1968 MED CRUISE T-ShirtNineteen sixty eight was the year everything seemed to be falling apart Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinated, cities in flames, Vietnam tearing the country in two. And in August, Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring. USS Essex was in the Mediterranean when the invasion came, and the Sixth Fleet surged to heightened readiness. CVS 9's anti submarine warfare mission was never more urgent. The sailors of Essex

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