USS Midway (CV-41) 1977 Cruise Sweatshirt

USS 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.