USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1967 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Forrestal (CVA-59) 1967 Cruise SweatshirtUSS 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

Forty-two days later

and strike missions that made a difference when it mattered most

This is the shirt of her last crew

she was back in the Western Pacific — the same waters she had patrolled through a decade of war

When the Dayton Accords were signed that November

USS Constellation (CV-64) deployed in late 2002 and sailed into history when Operation Iraqi Freedom launched on March 20

a catastrophic fire on her flight deck off Vietnam cost the lives of 134 sailors and changed how the Navy approaches damage control

USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) deployed in 1973

The men and women who served on this deployment carried the grief of a wounded nation into battle

The 1989 cruise was USS Coral Sea's (CV-43) final deployment — the last chapter of a 42-year career that began in 1947 and touched every major chapter of postwar American naval history

her air wing supporting Operation Southern Watch and projecting American power across a region that demanded a steady hand

It was the defining moment of a new era

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