USS America (CVA-66) 1972-73 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS America (CVA-66) 1972-73 Long Sleeve Cruise ShirtThe 1972 73 deployment of USS America (CVA 66) was one of the most consequential of the entire Vietnam War. When North Vietnam launched the massive Easter Offensive on March 30, 1972, CVA 66 surged into the Gulf of Tonkin and flew relentlessly through Operation Linebacker the most intensive air campaign of the war helping blunt the invasion and turn the tide. Operation Linebacker II followed in December, and the Paris Peace Accords were signed January

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Operation Desert Storm

Through the siege of Khe Sanh

USS America deployed into that storm

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Rolling Thunder

Israel had invaded in June

USS America deployed in 1976 — the year the nation turned 200

the combat deployments to Vietnam were history — but USS America (CVA-66) still deployed

In 1977-78

This long sleeve cruise shirt commemorates a deployment that carried extraordinary meaning in a year the country will always remember

The 1974 crew served in a changed world: quieter headlines

Iran seized American hostages

They didn't just witness history