USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 1978 Long Sleeve Cruise Shirt

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USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 1978 Long Sleeve Cruise ShirtBy 1978, USS Enterprise had already served through fifteen years of Cold War tension, one of history's most audacious nuclear circumnavigations, and a decade of combat in Southeast Asia. The 1978 Western Pacific cruise found her still leading the line nuclear powered, combat proven, and ready. Soviet forces continued to probe American resolve from Murmansk to Vladivostok. Enterprise answered with flight operations and forward presence, the same answer

the crew of CV-66 was already on station — part of the American presence that had kept NATO strong throughout the Cold War and helped make that historic moment possible

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

The deployment unfolded during the Vietnam War

now patrolled in an era of cautious peace

Operation Linebacker II in December 1972 — the "Christmas Bombings" — brought North Vietnam to the peace table

USS Constellation (CV-64) deployed during one of the most active periods of the late Cold War

Her air wing flew sorties in support of Rolling Thunder

and representing the best the country had to offer

the wars that had defined a generation were shifting

Twenty-seven men gave their lives

USS Constellation (CV-64) deployed in 1980

The 1998-99 cruise was no different

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