Dorothy Poitevent, 2007.243.295.Įven though ships, supplies, personnel, and planning from all branches of the military would be needed to execute Magic Carpet successfully, at the head of its organizational development was the War Shipping Administration or WSA.
The sum total of which provides the mathematical framework behind the beginning of the post-war Baby Boom nine months later.ĭoctors returning to the United States in the Mediterranean or Atlantic circa October 1945, The National WWII Museum, Gift of Ms. On average Operation Magic Carpet transported 22,222 Americans home every day for nearly one year straight. Though on some days and months, particularly December 1945, the return rate was much higher. Operation Magic Carpet officially commenced on September 6, 1945, four days after VJ-Day ending on September 1, 1946. Though lasting only 360 days, Operation Magic Carpet was the largest combined air and sealift ever organized. However, it is when the sheer volume of Americans returned are considered-eight million men and women from every service branch, scattered across 55 theaters of war spanning four continents-that one can make the case that Operation Magic Carpet stands as one of the greatest achievements of the entire war. That it was a global experience shared by millions makes it remarkable enough on its own. Separated by vast distances, theater, branch of service, sex, race, and rank, the journey back to the Home Front (United States) at the conclusion of World War II was one of only a handful of incidences universal to nearly all American servicemen who fought and survived the bloodiest conflict in human history. Magic carpets have also been featured in modern literature, movies, and video games, and not always in a classic context.Top Image: Yank's Magic Carpet, A souvenir booklet specially prepared for US Army personnel in China, Burma, and India. Travelers need not sit on the bare carpet itself, as the carpet serves as the platform for a comfortable cabin. Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos features a world making extensive use of magic in daily life, and among other things having flying carpets as a common, non-polluting means of transportation - in fierce competition with the also available flying brooms. In Mark Twain's " Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", magic wishing carpets are used to instantaneously travel throughout Heaven. Russian painter Viktor Vasnetsov illustrated the tales featuring a flying carpet on two occasions. Such gifts help the hero to find his way "beyond thrice-nine lands, in the thrice-ten kingdom". a ball that rolls in front of the hero showing him the way, or a towel that can turn into a bridge).
In Russian folk tales, Baba Yaga can supply Ivan the Fool with a flying carpet or some other magical gifts (e.g.
In Shaikh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Tadifi al-Hanbali's book of wonders, Qala'id-al-Jawahir ("Necklaces of Gems"), Shaikh Abdul-Qadir Gilani walks on the water of the River Tigris, then an enormous prayer rug ( sajjada) appears in the sky above, "as if it were the flying carpet of Solomon ". The carpet was shielded from the sun by a canopy of birds. Solomon's carpet was reportedly made of green silk with a golden weft, sixty miles (97 km) long and sixty miles (97 km) wide: "when Solomon sat upon the carpet he was caught up by the wind, and sailed through the air so quickly that he breakfasted at Damascus and supped in Media." The wind followed Solomon's commands, and ensured the carpet would go to the proper destination when Solomon was proud, for his greatness and many accomplishments, the carpet gave a shake and 40,000 fell to their deaths. One of Vasnetsov's paintings of a flying carpet
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