USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1989-90 Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1989-90 Cruise ShirtUSS Forrestal (CV 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. She set the template for every fleet carrier that followed the angled deck, the size, the capability and deployed to the Mediterranean and Atlantic through the Cold War decades as a symbol of American sea power. In July 1967, a catastrophic fire on her flight deck off Vietnam cost the

In the mission logs of Operation Iraqi Freedom

Through the winter of 1982-83

and return home to a proud country

Every Sailor who served on this cruise carries both the weight of those losses and the pride of a crew that refused to quit

USS Forrestal (CVA-59) deployed in 1967 to Yankee Station

and the North Arabian Sea

her air wing proved the ship and the men who flew from her decks—demonstrating that America's newest attack carrier was more than ready for the challenge

and Ticonderoga-class cruisers played a central role in that campaign

This long sleeve shirt commemorates the 1969-70 cruise — as the Vietnam War continued and Forrestal patrolled the Mediterranean

striking with the power and precision only an American carrier can deliver

This long sleeve cruise shirt is for the sailors who carried that legacy forward

she carried a warrior's heritage into a Cold War deployment that demanded steady vigilance

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