Photo: Jeep
Half a century ago, the men who took humanity's message to the Moon returned safely to Earth. On July 24, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, splashed down in their Columbia command module in the Pacific Ocean. On-site for their recovery was the USS Hornet.
The Essex-class aircraft carrier is now called the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum and forever rests in Alameda, California. And on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, it played its part in the series of celebrations held across the U.S.
Trying to take advantage of the exposure provided by these events, another American icon was on the deck of the USS Hornet: Jeep landed there to showcase the best vehicles it currently has to offer, but also some of its older models, including military ones.
Over the weekend of July 26, Jeep brought an army of vehicles on the flight deck of the carrier, led by the latest of its models, the 2020 Gladiator.
Somehow, Jeep got the museum's officials to open the deck and create a closed course on which visitors were able to take drives inside Jeep vehicles, including the Gladiator and the Wrangler. The obstacles set on the course we're meant to showcase the two models' "capability, body strength, agility, traction."
The Jeep display onboard the Hornet also included stationary cars. The former Navy ship was the place where the carmaker showed a 1944 Willys MB, a 1951 M38 Navy Jeep, a Jeep JK 75th Salute, JK Staff Car, JK Sarge J8, T1, JK Crew Chief, and JK JT.
As for the ship itself, aside for fishing the astronauts from the waters of the ocean, it took part in several battles against the Japanese in World War II.
In 18 months of operation during the war, the USS Hornet was responsible for shooting down 668 Japanese planes, sinking 73 ships and damaging another 413.
Trying to take advantage of the exposure provided by these events, another American icon was on the deck of the USS Hornet: Jeep landed there to showcase the best vehicles it currently has to offer, but also some of its older models, including military ones.
Over the weekend of July 26, Jeep brought an army of vehicles on the flight deck of the carrier, led by the latest of its models, the 2020 Gladiator.
Somehow, Jeep got the museum's officials to open the deck and create a closed course on which visitors were able to take drives inside Jeep vehicles, including the Gladiator and the Wrangler. The obstacles set on the course we're meant to showcase the two models' "capability, body strength, agility, traction."
The Jeep display onboard the Hornet also included stationary cars. The former Navy ship was the place where the carmaker showed a 1944 Willys MB, a 1951 M38 Navy Jeep, a Jeep JK 75th Salute, JK Staff Car, JK Sarge J8, T1, JK Crew Chief, and JK JT.
As for the ship itself, aside for fishing the astronauts from the waters of the ocean, it took part in several battles against the Japanese in World War II.
In 18 months of operation during the war, the USS Hornet was responsible for shooting down 668 Japanese planes, sinking 73 ships and damaging another 413.
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