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.
U.S. sailors at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. A dock shows Norfolk Naval Shipyard buildings. Battleship at the dock. U.S. Army personnel aboard a ship and on the dock. A U.S. official speaks to a group of servicemen. Sailors march along a road. The sailors come to a stop and march again. Two navy officers talk to each other.
A U.S. Navy training at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. U.S. sailors signal a ship. A sign on a raised structure reads 'Exhale'. A sailor turns over the signboard. U.S. Navy Nurse Corps women take part in a drill.
U.S. Navy officers in a building at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Interiors of the building shows three U.S. Navy officers standing. Medics carry a man on a stretcher. A group of navy officers talks to each other.
U.S. Navy personnel at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Women of U.S. Navy Nurse Corps stand around sailors and navy officers seated in wheelchairs. Men play tennis. Sailors sit and watch the game. A road alongside barracks. U.S. Navy officers descend the steps of a building.
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