Magic carpet operation

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Immigration/carpet.html
In May 1949, when the Imam of Yemen agreed to let 45,000 of the 46,000 Jews in his country leave, Israeli transport planes flew them "home" in Operation Magic Carpet. The Yemenite Jews, mostly children, were brought to Israel on some 380 flights. This was one of the most wonderful and complex immigration operations the state has ever known. British and American planes airlifted the Jews from Aden, the capital of Yemen, when they reached the city from all over Yemen after extremely dangerous and risky journeys. The operation was secret and was released to the media only several months after its completion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Magic_Carpet_(Yemen)

*Numerous documents on Magic Carpet from AR that were digitized by Master Chief Leuci were provided

USS America

It likely was the largest ever since the largest warship sank in combat.
It was the Japanese battleship Yamato which was 69,990 tons when fully loaded.

http://www.cdnn.info/news/industry/i050522a.html
USS America 1048-ft aircraft carrier sunk off North Carolina
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NORTH CAROLINA (22 May 2005) -- The retired aircraft carrier USS America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
The 84,000-ton, 1,048-foot warship that served the Navy for 32 years rests about 60 miles off the coast and more than 6,000 feet down, according to Pat Dolan, a spokeswoman for Naval Sea Systems Command.
She did not give a location, but the Navy previously said the explosions would take place off North Carolina.
Dolan said the America went down May 14, finally flooded after the series of explosions over 25 days. No announcement was made at the time.
No warship this size or larger had ever been sunk, and plans to sink the America caused controversy.
"Not a day goes by that I don't think about it," said Lee McNulty, president of the USS America Foundation, which wanted to turn the ship into a museum. "Of all the carriers, that one should have been saved, just for the name America."
The America launched warplanes during the Vietnam War, the 1986 conflict with Libya, the first Gulf War, and over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the mid-1990s.

The Navy said in March that the explosive tests would provide valuable data on survivability for the next generation of aircraft carriers, which are now in development.
Since its decommissioning in 1996, the America had been moored with dozens of other inactive warships at a Navy yard in Philadelphia.

Yangtze Patrol : List of commanders

Tolley, Kemp. "Yangtze Patrol : The U. S. Navy in China" pp. 303-304

Navy Directories
and Navy Registers and Bio files

Bio of Rear admiral Kemp:
http://www.geocities.com/songkhla.geo/Tolley.html

Maritime communications

Howeth, L. S. "History of Communications Electronics in the United States Navy."
http://earlyradiohistory.us/1963hw.htm -- full text


"Shore to Ship Via Moon" Message http://www.history.navy.mil/library/manuscript/anderson_george.htm

Care and Training of Homing Pigeons
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/special/homing_pigeons.htm

Manual For Buglers:
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/bugle.htm

Navy Network-Centric Warfare…
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:A1x6I5fk7SkJ:www.fas.org/man/crs/RS20557.pdf+Navy+Network-Centric+Warfare&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us -- full text


Pearl Harbor attack message

NARA RG-45

Wilson Timothy, "Flags at Sea: A Guide to the Flags Flown at Sea."

Z files in NDL

http://history.navy.mil/library/special/zfile_intro.htm

ZB - Personnel (100 linear feet)
ZC - Ships (30 linear feet)
ZE - Places (3 linear feet)
ZO - Operations (4.5 linear feet)
ZR - Sources of Historical Material (3 linear feet)
ZV - Miscellaneous (5.5 linear feet)

photos of people : US Navy

People (US Navy)
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers.htm

Online image collection from NHC photo section:
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm

cutless

http://www.libertyagtr5div.org/Uuniform_history.htm

CUTLASS-- a short saber with a cut and thrust blade and a large hand guard. Issued to enlisted men as a sidearm and maintained in ships armories until the beginning of WWII. The weapons was officially declared obsolete in 1949. The Cutlass was considered an organizational issue item, but was never considered to be a part of the enlisted uniform.

* Some info from the 1866 uniform regulations, and the vertical file.

Band: German naval band

*Found a bunch of information and photos on line through the NHC Photo section

*Suggest to contact the historical society in Hoboken,
also the historical society in NYC,
as well as the Merchant Marine Academy library at SUNY,
and the state library/archives in NJ and NY, port authority, etc., and various other maritime research organizations.

ship model: full-size ship model made for Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1892

Found info in a book about the Exposition.
Two articles in Proceedings from 1934 and 1937.
Also SecNav report for 1893 had info.

WWII: CBM: history for construction battalions

Admin. Hist.The number is 108.
Available on microfiche but would have to be reproduced through the AR branch, refers to AR. Ms. Jacobs

Vietnam: traditional boats of Vietnam

possible sources of photos at NARA and NHC.
Also referral to Mobile Riverine Force Assn. and Texas Tech’s Vietnam Center.

WWII: Civil-military German and American interactions

NDL has a multi-part administrative history of Commander, Naval Forces Europe (COMNAVEU) covering the period 1940-1946.
One of the volumes (147-G) includes three sections that might provide useful background data: "II. U.S. Naval Forces, German (Task Force 124),"
pages 66-171; "III. U.S. Ports and Bases, Germany (Task Force 126),"
pages 172-203; and "IV. Naval Division, U.S. Group, Control Council, Germany,"
pages 172-203

Also: PhD thesis by Denzil Tim Clifton: Bremen Under US Military Occupation: 1945-1949, the Reform of Education.