USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1968-69 Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1968-69 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

Flying through monsoon conditions and heavy defenses

The Iran-Iraq War had turned the world's most critical waterway into a combat zone

The Soviet Navy was watching

and the pride of serving aboard a ship that the Navy simply couldn't let go

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and her aircraft participated in the NATO operations that established a no-fly zone over Tripoli and Benghazi to protect Libyan civilians

commissioned in 1955 and named for James V

USS Enterprise deployed into the volatile Middle East theater with her battle group

the Navy's transformation was undeniable — bigger

your ship was part of a force facing real violence in real time

As Soviet power crumbled and the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th