USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1962-63 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1962-63 Long Sleeve 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

"Connie" patrolled the Western Pacific and Arabian Gulf

History moved fast in 1989 and 1990

Operation Iraqi Freedom opened with the most concentrated Tomahawk cruise missile barrage in history

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

The 600-ship fleet was coming

projecting airpower in a region where it counted

Antietam and her crew met that challenge — steady

the Cold War's end had not brought the peace dividend many had hoped for

It was the edge of the world

Operation Earnest Will was underway in the Persian Gulf — the U

on station

naval forces surged toward the North Arabian Sea