VIETNAM WAR PATCH, US NAVY- USS TICONDEROGA CVA-14 "CRUISE 1965-66"

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THIS ITEM MEASURES 3.5 IN X 3.5 IN.
USS Ticonderoga
'​s winter deployment of 1965 and 1966 was her first total combat tour of duty during American involvement in the
Vietnam War
. During her six months in the Far East, the carrier spent a total of 116 days in air operations off the coast of Vietnam dividing her time almost evenly between "Dixie" and "
Yankee Stations
", the carrier operating areas off South and North Vietnam, respectively. Her air group delivered over 8,000 tons (7,200 tonnes) of ordnance in more than 10,000 combat sorties, with a loss of 16 planes, but only five pilots. For the most part, her aircraft hit enemy installations in North Vietnam and interdicted supply routes into
South Vietnam
, including river-borne and coastwise
junk
and
sampan
traffic as well as roads, bridges, and trucks on land. Specifically, they claimed the destruction of 35 bridges as well as numerous warehouses, barracks, trucks, boats, and railroad cars and severe damage to a major North Vietnamese thermal power plant located at
Uong Bi
north of
Haiphong
. After a stop at
Sasebo
, Japan, from 25 April-3 May 1966, the warship put to sea to return to the United States. On 13 May, she pulled into port at San Diego to end the deployment.
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