Name: USS America (CVA-66) 1965-66 Cruise Shirt
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USS America (CVA-66) 1965-66 Cruise Shirt

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USS America (CVA-66) 1965-66 Cruise ShirtUSS America (CVA 66) was the most advanced conventionally powered aircraft carrier in the world when she departed Norfolk for her first deployment in 1965. Commissioned just months before on January 23, 1965, she carried the hopes of a nation and the pride of her builders at Newport News Shipbuilding. Operating in Cold War waters, her air wing proved the ship and the men who flew from her decksdemonstrating that America's newest attack carrier was

Operation Desert Shield

Pre-shrunk fabric

CVA-66 was among the first carriers surged into the Gulf of Tonkin in response

The summer of 1990 brought crisis to the Persian Gulf when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2

and you held it

her crew took their place on the front lines of one of history's most pivotal years

From the Israeli invasion to the Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 Americans in October 1983

and USS America (CV-66) sailed the Mediterranean with the confidence of a Navy that knew its moment had arrived

USS America (CV-66) was out front in that turn

The 2007 cruise of USS Antietam (CG-54) came at a pivotal moment in the Long War

USS America found a new kind of mission

They held the watch in a time of transition