USS America (CVA-66) 1970 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS America (CVA-66) 1970 Cruise SweatshirtBy 1970, Vietnamization was reshaping the war ground combat was shifting to South Vietnamese forces, and American troop levels were falling. But the air war was as intense as ever, and USS America (CVA 66) was back on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, flying combat missions in support of allied troops and striking enemy supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Even as the politicians talked peace, the crew of CVA 66 maintained the watch, answered

and USS America (CV-66) was on station in the Eastern Mediterranean — a constant

When North Vietnam launched the massive Easter Offensive on March 30

The crew of CVA-66 was there from the darkest days of the Easter Offensive to the moment peace was finally within reach

but the crew of CVA-66 flew with the same professional grit that defined the ship from her first deployment in 1965

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Rolling Thunder

and USS America (CV-66) was a centerpiece of that transformation — a supercarrier deploying to the Med with a crew ready for whatever the Cold War brought their way

her air wing pressed the fight under Operation Rolling Thunder—sending aircraft against North Vietnamese targets day after day despite some of the most concentrated anti-aircraft defenses ever encountered in the history of aerial warfare

USS America (CV-66) deployed in 1986

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keeping the sea lanes free and the message unmistakable

While fireworks lit up the sky back home

USS America (CV-66) deployed into one of the most dangerous chapters of the Cold War

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