USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1962-63 Cruise Shirt

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1962-63 Cruise ShirtUSS 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. Designated as an attack carrier, she set the template for every fleet carrier that followed the angled deck, the size, the capability and deployed repeatedly to the Mediterranean as one of the most powerful warships in the world. In July 1967, a catastrophic fire on her flight deck

where American warships had maintained continuous presence since the September 11 attacks

her SPY-1 radar tracking threats across hundreds of miles

With the Cold War over and the Gulf War won

Her 1962 deployment brought her into Caribbean waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the closest the world came to nuclear war

an accidental rocket ignition on the flight deck triggered a catastrophic chain of explosions and fires

from the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the wars of the twenty-first century

The 1978-79 cruise kept faith with America's Pacific commitments at a pivotal moment: Soviet naval power was growing

she stood watch over Europe as the world held its breath

USS Boxer (LHD-4) deployed in 2016 to the Persian Gulf

In the years after Vietnam

and an American hostage crisis taking shape in Tehran

the Cold War's front lines stretched from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean