USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) 2007 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) 2007 Cruise Sweatshirt<p>USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) was a Kitty Hawk class supercarrier commissioned on April 29, 1961. Her 2007 deployment from Naval Station Yokosuka, Japan, was among her final before decommissioning, with Carrier Air Wing Five continuing to fly missions across the Western Pacific as the ship approached the end of her 48 year career. As one of the last conventionally powered carriers in the U. S. fleet, Kitty Hawk remained a formidable warship to the last.

The energy crisis gripped the nation

enforcing a no-fly zone that kept the peace where diplomacy alone had failed

and essential — the work of keeping the peace after the fighting

Operating with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit

When Saddam expelled UN weapons inspectors

Coral Sea's crews helped blunt the offensive and demonstrate what carrier aviation could accomplish

Truman's air wing flew missions over Iraq as part of one of the largest coalition naval forces assembled since the Gulf War

In 1978-79

her aircraft and crews ready to defend freedom of navigation against anyone who challenged it

While America held its breath and 52 hostages waited in Tehran

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) deployed in 1998-1999 to the Persian Gulf

— the driving force behind some of the most decisive naval operations of World War II — DDG-97's 2008 cruise extended her record of excellence across the Western Pacific

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