Operation Magic Carpet was the post-World War II operation by the U.S. War Shipping Administration (WSA) to repatriate over eight million American military...

Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles (Hebrew: כנפי נשרים Knafei Nesharim, lit. 'Wings of Eagles/Vultures')...

Look up magic carpet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A magic carpet is a mythological flying (or "teleporting") rug. Magic carpet may also refer to:...

A magic carpet, also called a flying carpet, is a legendary carpet and common trope in fantasy fiction. It is typically used as a form of transportation...

serve as a transport, bringing troops home from Europe as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Like many of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after...

university, Agha was cast in the Polka Theatre children's production of Operation Magic Carpet and made her television debut with a guest appearance in a season...

of additional berthing facilities, then began a series of three Operation Magic Carpet voyages to Europe, bringing home more than 10,000 veterans in her...

process. Military personnel were returned to the United States in Operation Magic Carpet. By June 30, 1947, the number of active duty soldiers, sailors,...

companies that heavily participated in Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen), Operation Ezra and Nehemiah and Operation Cyrus. These activities brought tens of...

October, for provisions and fuel. The next day, now taking part in Operation Magic Carpet, she loaded 1,934 veterans at Samar and sailed for the United States...

August 1994 "Operation Magic Carpet". National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Brown, J. D. (2009). Carrier Operations in World War II...

carrying troops from the Philippines to Japan. Assigned to the Operation Magic Carpet fleet she made two voyages carrying home veterans from Sasebo, Japan...

Far East on her first "Magic Carpet" run carrying US Army Air Corps units from Okinawa to Seattle. Detached from "Magic Carpet" duty in August 1946, Randall...

qualifications on-board the carrier. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet. She was decommissioned in October 1946, when she was mothballed...

around and returned to the Port of Long Beach, CA. After service in Operation Magic Carpet, she was decommissioned in 1947, and sold for scrap in 1959. She...

~10% were Afro-Arabs, and a small portion were Yemeni Jews before Operation Magic Carpet, which took place between 1949 and 1950. The population was ~55%...

received orders detaching them from the fleet and assigned them to Operation Magic Carpet. The ship reached Saipan around 15:00, on 28 October, and stayed...

of Japan in August, she carried American personnel home during Operation Magic Carpet. North Carolina operated briefly off the east coast of the United...

hostilities in 1945, Anzio was among the escort carriers used in Operation Magic Carpet, returning US soldiers to the United States. Following this service...

majority of the country's Jewish population emigrated to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet. After several waves of persecution, the vast majority of Yemenite...

bombardments of coastal industrial targets. Alabama assisted in Operation Magic Carpet after the war, carrying some 700 men home from the former war zone...

bombardment of Tokyo and the Main Islands. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, before being decommissioned in August 1946, being mothballed in...

to the United States as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Independence was later used as a target during the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests. After...

assisted in the repatriation of American military personnel under Operation Magic Carpet. After returning to the United States, she was decommissioned and...

and the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet. She was decommissioned in June 1946, when she was mothballed in...

support of the Battle of Okinawa. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet. She was decommissioned in January 1947, when she was mothballed...

Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Okinawa. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet. She was decommissioned in January 1947, when she was mothballed...

last Pacific voyage. Departing 21 November, to participate in operation "Magic Carpet," the return of Pacific veterans, she sailed via Pearl Harbor to...

escort carrier in the Pacific Theatre. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, the repatriation of U.S. forces from bases scattered around the...

transport carrier throughout the war. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, repatriating U.S. servicemen from throughout the Pacific. She was...