USS America (CVA-66) 1971 Cruise Shirt - FAMILY

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USS America (CVA-66) 1971 Cruise Shirt - FAMILYIn 1971, South Vietnam launched its biggest offensive in years, pushing into Laos and USS America (CVA 66) deployed to support it with carrier airpower from the Gulf of Tonkin. Another cruise. Another season of waiting by the mailbox, watching the news for any mention of carriers in the Tonkin Gulf, and keeping life together until your sailor came home. Vietnamization was supposed to be the beginning of the end but for the families of CVA 66, it was

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This long sleeve shirt commemorates the 1972-73 cruise — during the closing years of the Vietnam era