USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) 1968 Cruise Shirt

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USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) 1968 Cruise ShirtNineteen sixty eight was a year that shook the world, and USS Enterprise (CVAN 65) was in the middle of it. The Tet Offensive in January upended American assumptions about the war in Vietnam. The assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy tore the nation. Through all of it, The Big E's Carrier Air Wing Nine flew combat missions with quiet professionalism sustaining operations as the political ground shifted beneath

kept safe by the ships and sailors who answer the call

USS America deployed into that storm

The deployment unfolded during the Vietnam War

The Lebanon crisis defined the 1982-83 deployment of USS America (CV-66)

contributing to a decisive victory that demonstrated American air power at its absolute best

Saddam Hussein remained in power under UN sanctions

On her 1983 cruise

This was the cruise that defined an era

The Big E's crew endured the strain of continuous operations in a war that was growing in both scale and controversy back home

they made the mission possible

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

After the long dark years of the late 1970s — the hostage crisis