USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1972-73 Cruise Varsity Jacket

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1972-73 Cruise Varsity JacketUSS 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. Her angled flight deck and immense size set the template for every fleet carrier that followed, and she deployed repeatedly to the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet as one of the most powerful warships afloat. Forrestal served until her decommissioning in 1993. This heavyweight

bringing an end to direct American combat operations in Vietnam

A proud tribute to one of the mightiest warships ever built and the crew who served aboard her

and held on until that carrier came home

This sweatshirt commemorates her 1980-81 cruise and features a deployment route map design

pushing into Laos — and USS America (CVA-66) deployed to support it with carrier airpower from the Gulf of Tonkin

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) greeted the 21st century from the deck of a carrier underway in the Western Pacific — on patrol

Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 112 (VAW-112)

Cole's crew refused to let their ship sink

This sweatshirt honors every person who held down the home front while Constellation held the line

if anything

Named for Montpelier

The 1973 cruise came in the shadow of the Paris Peace Accords