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1993 Navy USS Ranger CVW-2 Final Voyage embroidered patch 4.75 inch

1993 Navy USS Ranger CVW-2 Final Voyage embroidered patch 4.75 inch

$ 5.72

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Condition: New
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
  • Time Period Manufactured: 1992-2001
  • Item must be returned within: 60 Days
  • Theme: Naval vessels
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    It during the first deployment to the Vietnam War that VF-21 as part of the renamed CVW-2 scored the first air to air kills of Vietnam War. In a first for CVW-2, the air wing deployed with the F-4 as the only fighter aircraft on board as well as the E-2A Hawkeye joining the air wing. It was in 1967 that CVW-2 began their long assignment to the
    USS Ranger
    (CV/A-61) which would last till the Ranger's retirement in 1993 (excluding the mid-1980s). With the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq on 2 August 1990, USS Ranger and CVW-2 deployed on 8 December to take in Operation Desert Shield, transiting the Strait of Hormuz on 15 January 1991.
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