Name: USS Midway (CV-41) 1977 Cruise Sweatshirt
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SKU: 34025166535
Price: 42.00 USD
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USS Midway (CV-41) 1977 Cruise Sweatshirt

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USS Midway (CV-41) 1977 Cruise SweatshirtUSS Midway (CV 41) served as the U. S. Navy's forward deployed carrier homeported in Yokosuka, Japan throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The 1977 cruise kept Midway and Carrier Air Wing 5 on station in the Western Pacific, conducting flight operations and maintaining a continuous American naval presence in the region during a period of heightened Cold War tensions. This sweatshirt commemorates that deployment.

on February 20

Named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan

This 1990-91 shirt commemorates one of the most significant combat actions in modern Naval history and honors every sailor who served aboard USS Bunker Hill during Desert Storm

operating from the Red Sea as coalition forces drove Iraqi troops from Kuwait

Big John and her air wing kept the Atlantic Fleet's forward presence strong during the Cold War

Operation Iraqi Freedom opened with the most concentrated Tomahawk cruise missile barrage in history

operating as the forward-deployed carrier from Yokosuka

she stood ready as coalition forces prepared to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation

they made the mission possible

George (CG-71) was already proving her worth on the 1994-95 cruise through the Mediterranean

and the grinding months that followed

USS George Washington (CVN-73) deployed in the aftermath of September 11

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