USS Midway (CVA-41) 1972-73 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Midway (CVA-41) 1972-73 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Midway (CVA 41) was on station for one of the most intensive air campaigns of the Vietnam War during the 1972 73 cruise. Midway and Carrier Air Wing 5 participated in Operation Linebacker I and II the massive bombing campaigns that forced North Vietnam back to the negotiating table as well as Operation Pocket Money, the mining of Haiphong Harbor. The Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, making this one of the most consequential of all

The Mediterranean had been tense all year — the Line of Death

ready for anything

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

Commissioned on January 20

commissioned in 1945 and continuously modernized through four decades of service

the memories will last a lifetime

USS Constellation (CV-64) deployed in 1987 to the Persian Gulf

her last night operations over hostile shores

The deployment unfolded during the Global War on Terror

honoring the crew who served aboard during that deployment — a period that coincided with Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm

Her crew maintained continuous flight operations across a demanding deployment

USS America (CVA-66) deployed in 1967

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