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Vintage Desert Storm USA T-Shirt
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$51.00
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Measurements
Pit-to-Pit: 20"
Length: 28"
Condition
Vintage. Shows character consistent with age.
The Details
Operation Desert Storm opened with five weeks of aerial bombardment beginning 17 January 1991 and closed after a ground advance of exactly one hundred hours in late February — a campaign short enough that the souvenirs outlasted it by decades. It was also the first war carried live, principally by CNN, and the daily gun-camera footage earned it the nickname the Video Game War. The American T-shirt trade answered the way it always answers, in days, and what came out is effectively a genre: bald eagle, flag colours, fighter jet, a pilot in a tan flight suit with his mask still clipped on, lightning behind all of it, drawn in the airbrushed idiom of a county-fair van mural. This one sets DESERT STORM in glitter-blue above the scene and USA in stars and stripes below. The neck tag reads SCREEN STARS, size L, a common American printing blank of the period. What the category records is how quickly a war can be put onto cotton.
Vintage Operation Desert Storm t-shirt with fighter jet, pilot, and bald eagle graphics. Text reads "DESERT STORM" with red stars and "USA" at bottom. Classic Gulf War era memorabilia.
Sourcing
We source these shirts from thrift stores, estate sales, and directly from bootleg and overprint collectors.
$51.00