USS Shangri-La
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USS Shangri-La was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.
USS Shangri-La underway with crew on parade, 17 August 1946
Josephine Doolittle names Shangri-La at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 24 February 1944
Shangri-La after her SCB-125 refit in 1956
Shangri-La in 1970 on her last deployment
Jimmy Doolittle
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James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor
USS Shangri-La
…by the Norfolk Navy Yard, at Portsmouth, Virginia, on 15 January 1943, and was launched on 24 February 1944, sponsored by Josephine Doolittle (wife of Jimmy Doolittle). Shangri-La was commissioned on 15 September 1944. Shangri-La completed fitting out at Norfolk and took her shakedown cruise to Trinidad, between 15…
Lt. General James Doolittle, head and shoulders
Doolittle on his Curtiss R3C-2 Racer, the plane in which he won the Schneider Trophy in 1925
Doolittle in a pre–World War II photo
Bust of General Doolittle at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford