USS America (CVA-66) 1972-73 Cruise Shirt - FAMILY

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USS America (CVA-66) 1972-73 Cruise Shirt - FAMILYThe 1972 73 cruise was the one families will never forget. North Vietnam's Easter Offensive sent USS America (CVA 66) surging into the Gulf of Tonkin, and the ship stayed there through the most intense air campaign of the war Linebacker, the Christmas Bombings, the final push that brought peace. Your sailor was gone not for weeks but for what felt like an era, through a deployment that made history. Back home, you managed everything: the worry, the

In the mission logs of Operation Iraqi Freedom

Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113 (VAW-113)

Your sailor served aboard USS America (CV-66) during one of the Navy's finest rebuilding years

Kitty Hawk had established herself as a veteran of Cold War carrier operations

it wasn't just a homecoming — it was the end of the war

and kept contested skies overhead as allied forces pushed into some of the heaviest defenses of the war

USS Carl Vinson

She supported Desert Storm in 1990–91 and was decommissioned in 1995 — a career that spanned nearly the full arc of postwar American naval history

CVN-65's air wing flew relentless sorties in support of American and coalition forces on the ground — close air support

operating in the Mediterranean as the United States and Soviet Union navigated toward an uncertain peace

This sweatshirt honors her legacy and all who served aboard her

and MK-48 torpedoes