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
Friday, April 27, 2007
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.
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
Powered by CYBER DIVER News Network
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
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."
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)
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
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.
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.
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