USS Shangri La (CV-38) launched at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. USS Shangri La is launched. Tugboats come alongside of the ship.
USS Shangri-La (CV-38) is christened at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Mrs. James H. Doolittle, Miss McClellan, Rear Admiral Felix X. Gygax, and Captain Mauch pose. Miss McClellan speaks into a microphone. Admiral Gygax speaks at microphone. Mrs. Doolittle poses with champagne bottle, christens ship, ship is launched. Ground views of ship in water. Tugboats alongside and workers on flight deck. Workers on dock. ("Lost Horizon" author, James Hilton, who created the word Shangri-La, is present on the platform behind Mrs. Doolittle and was a special guest that day.)
USS Shangri La (CV-38) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia during her launching. USS Shangri La on ways, workers on flight deck. Anchor chains. Spectators during launching of Shangri-La. Photographers take photos.
German tanks and infantry defend Nettuno, Italy against Allied forces during World War II. German infantry troops in a fox hole. Camouflaged Pz.IV tanks move. German troops advance. Explosion occur as smoke rises. Soldier take positions. Soldiers walk with rifles. Troops ride Pz.III Flamm tanks They watch through binoculars. Artillery being fired. Smoke rises in the far background. Captured British carrier. Damaged Sherman tanks, M10 tank destroyer, and dead Allied soldiers. Germans take American and British prisoners. The British and U.S. Army POWs being marched under German guard.
Adolf Hitler and party of military officers wait to receive the president of The Slovak Republic Jozef Tiso at a railway station. Dr.Tiso, president of The Slovak Republic, detrains in Berlin and is greeted by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who escorts him to a waiting car and joins him in the back seat. .
German and Hungarian troops advance on the Carpathian Mountains during World War II. German and Hungarian troops lay barbed wire and construct tank traps. Half-tanks being washed in a stream. Soldiers bathe. Amphibious jeeps move through the water and lay mines. Hungarian infantry crosses a bridge. Field guns being loaded and fired. A smoldering Russian tank. Hungarian Zrínyi SP tracked gun advances. Shows street fighting in a village. German Marder III Ausf.H and Bison Ausf.H tracked guns firing. Damaged trees and huts in a village.
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