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.
Students of Balloon and Airship schools ran by the U.S. Air Service, training on balloons and dirigibles at various places in United States. Dirigible ZDUS-1 flying in sky. Commanding Officer of the school William H. Hensley takes his son aboard cabin of a dirigible. It flies over city of Norfolk. The buildings, bridges and ships anchored at harbor. Crew members in the pilot house. Navigation Captain Dale Mabry instructs crew members. An engineer walk on pipes and repairs and oils one of the engines while in air. Shadow of dirigible on ground
Secretory of Navy, Paul Nitze and other dignitaries attend commissioning of aircraft carrier, USS America (CV-66) at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Naval officers step from a limousine on the pier near the ship. Motorcycle escort leads a limousine to the side of the ship. Governor Harrison of Virginia steps from the car and climbs aboard the USS America. Secretory of State Dean Rusk arrives by car and boards. Other dignitaries arrive and board the USS America. View from a height of the wide flight deck of the USS America at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
The commissioning ceremony of United States Ship America at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Marine Honor Guard in ranks at parade rest during the ceremony. Ship's bandmaster and the band play near the hanger bay. Boarding guests include Governor Harrison of Virginia, Chief of Naval Operations followed by Admiral H.P. Smith and others. Vice Admiral Thach and others board the USS America. More Naval officers and ladies board the ship saluted by two navy men.
American workers load treasures of Egyptian King Tutankhamun (King Tut) onto USS Sylvania at the Navy Station in Norfolk, Virginia. American workers load wooden boxes onto cranes. Wooden boxes being lifted by forklifts. A worker drives a forklift. Large wooden boxes of Egyptian King Tut treasure being loaded on the ship with the help of cranes. The wooden boxes being placed on trucks with the help of forklifts.
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