USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1974 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1974 Long Sleeve Cruise ShirtUSS Forrestal (CVA 59) was the first purpose built supercarrier of the postwar era, commissioned in 1955 and named for James V. Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense. Designated as an attack carrier, she set the template for every fleet carrier that followed the angled deck, the size, the capability and deployed repeatedly to the Mediterranean as one of the most powerful warships in the world. In July 1967, a catastrophic fire on her flight deck

making her the longest-serving forward-deployed ship in the U

To have sailed on Enterprise in these earliest years was to serve on the most advanced warship ever built — and to know it

When terrorists struck on September 11

a veteran of the Cold War

This cruise shirt honors the crew who delivered on that promise

USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) deployed in 1968

A Leahy-class guided missile cruiser with more than twenty years of fleet service

The crew of CVA-66 was there from the first day to the last

Wear this as a badge of honor

Forty-five years after commissioning

For the crew of the 1965–66 cruise

USS Anzio (CG-68) deployed in 1994–95 into one of the most complex security environments of the post-Cold War era