USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1991-92 Cruise Shirt

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) 1991-92 Cruise ShirtUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) deployed during the period that encompassed Operation Desert Storm the air campaign that began in January 1991 and drove Iraq's forces out of Kuwait in 100 hours of ground combat. Ike and her air wing operated in the Red Sea as part of the multi carrier force that flew thousands of sorties over Iraq and Kuwait. The 1991 deployment was the payoff of a decade of military rebuilding, and the American carrier fleet

Named for the World War II amphibious operation that punched through a fortified enemy line in Italy

As coalition forces worked to stabilize Iraq through the surge era

USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) deployed in 1989-1990

American carriers led

USS Coral Sea (CV-43) had already outlasted nearly every carrier of her generation — a Midway-class veteran operating in a world of nuclear-powered supercarriers

commissioned in 1955 and named for James V

Forrestal served for decades more after that tragedy

2000 shook the fleet — but it did not deter the sailors who continued their missions and kept the battle group ready

USS Anzio had played her part in closing Europe's darkest chapter since World War II

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Operation Linebacker

as Forrestal stood watch in the Mediterranean with the steady professionalism that had always defined her

For the crew who served aboard the lead ship of the Navy's most capable destroyer class

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