USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1981 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CV-59) 1981 Long Sleeve 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

USS Constellation (CVA-64) deployed in 1964-1965

maintained their training

Enterprise flew the flag with the same professionalism that had defined the ship since her commissioning in 1961 — steady

USS Constellation (CVA-64) deployed in 1966

North Arabian Sea

On April 15

Less than two years after her commissioning

USS Dale (CG-19) deployed in 1984

This sweatshirt carries the memory of that pivotal deployment

This 2001 cruise sweatshirt marks the deployment that defined a generation: the moment the Navy answered the nation's call with fire

defining a chapter of the Cold War

Cold War tensions remained high