Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two humans to walk on the Moon. McCain (CINCPAC) and a number of other dignitaries were present while Hornet recovered astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and their spacecraft Columbia. On July 24, 1969, President Richard Nixon, ADM John S. USS Hornet (CVS-12) was selected by the Navy as the Prime Recovery Ship (PRS) for Apollo 11, America’s first lunar landing mission. For the next two months, strikes were made against positions on Formosa, Luzon, Saigon, Cam Ranh Bay in French Indo-China, and Hong Kong. Hornet and Task Force 58 began intensive operations in the Philippines and surrounding areas. Hornet participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, launching 2 long-range strikes against a rapidly retiring Japanese fleet and scoring hits on several capital ships. ![]() Hornet air group VF-2 had the distinction of being the top fighter squadron in the Pacific with more total victories and more “ace” pilots then any other fighter squadron up to that time. Hornet participated in the Western Carolina Islands operation with air support strikes on Peleliu. June 19īattle of the Philippine Sea where pilots from Hornet and other carriers destroyed enemy aircraft with minimal losses in what came to be known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”. USS Hornet (CV-12) was commissioned November 29, 1943, becoming the eighth ship to bear the name. “Jocko” Clark came quickly as she joined famed Task Force 58. ![]() Her combat debut as the flagship of Rear Admiral J.J. The Operation Magic Carpet was also termed “Operation on the Wings of Eagles,” a name inspired by the Biblical passage in Exodus 19:4.USS Hornet left Pearl Harbor en route to the forward area. The operation ended on September 24, 1950. The last two airplanes carried 177 Jews from Aden to Israel as part of “Operation Magic Carpet.” During Operation Magic Carpet, about 50,000 Jews from Yemen were moved to Israel from June 1949 to September 24, 1950. In February 1949, the Jewish Agency and the Joint Distribution Committee coordinated the airlifts. Some of the Yemeni Jews walked for weeks to reach their destination. Rumors spread regarding a planned Israeli operation aimed at airlifting Jews to Israel, making thousands of Yemeni Jews travel to Aden, a British colony. As a result, Jews could now leave Yemen only after selling their homes and property in Yemen. After the end of Israel’s War of Independence in 1949, the official policy of Yemen was changed, even though the Arab League objected. New restrictions that targeted Jewish emigration from Yemen reduced the number of Jews who moved to Israel in 1922. In addition to traveling being easier, most Yemeni Jews felt that by moving to Israel, they would have hastened the coming of the Messiah. From 1881 to 1917, about 5000 Jews from Yemen made Aliya. ![]() Since Ottoman controlled both Yemen and Palestine, it was easier for the Jews in Yemen to move to Israel. The Ottoman Empire controlled the large sections of Yemen by 1872, including San’a that had the highest population of Jews. Just as other Jews across the globe, this belief was a significant element in Yemeni Jewish rituals, prayers, and practice. ![]() This belief helped Yemeni Jews believe that returning to Israel was dependent on the Messiah’s arrival. They believed that a new temple would also collapse, sending them into exile again. The Jews of Yemen believed that when the Prophet Ezra encouraged Jews to return from exile to rebuild the Temple in Israel (538 BCE), Yemen’s Jews refused. They even had ties with Jews abroad, including those in Spain and Israel. Even though they comprised majorly small communities that lived in isolation, the Jews of Yemen had maintained the connection with other Jewish centers in the Middle East. The community had grown from the Maccabees’ time after the Second Temple’s destruction in 70 BC. Jews had lived in Yemen for years, even before the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC.
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