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Tugboats come alongside as USS Shangri La is launched at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.

USS Shangri La (CV-38) launched at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. USS Shangri La is launched. Tugboats come alongside of the ship.

Location: Portsmouth Virginia USA
Date: 1944, February 24
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071023
Mrs. Doolittle poses with bottle, christens USS Shangri-La as it is launched at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.

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.)

Location: Portsmouth Virginia USA
Date: 1944, February 24
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071024
Spectators and photographers during launching of USS Shangri La (CV-38) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.

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.

Location: Portsmouth Virginia USA
Date: 1944, February 24
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071025
Dedication of Marine Corps War Memorial at Quantico Virginia, and sculptor Felix de Weldon working on sculpture for Arlington location.

The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial original statue during its unveiling ceremony at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia on November 10, 1951 (This is after the statue had been moved from its original Constitution Avenue location in Washington DC in 1947, and subsequently renovated under sculptor de Weldon's supervision while it was in Quantico.). A sign on the memorial reads "Uncommon valor was a common virtue, 1945." Next scenes show sculptor Felix de Weldon as he works to build the larger Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, which was dedicated in November 1954. Felix de Weldon measuring a model of the flag raising on Iwo Jima made by him. de Weldon and others on his team work to carve the large war memorial in plaster before it is cast in bronze. Views of the sculpted faces of the six Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima: Faces of John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block and Michael Strank. Brief glimpse of the original flag raising scene on Mount Suribachi in February 1945. Next scene, circa 1954 or 1955, shows the completed Marine Corps War Memorial in bronze, in Arlington Virginia, with Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial landmarks of Washington DC in the background. Close-up views of faces of a young boy, an elderly woman, and a middle aged man who removes his hat. American flag fluttering in the breeze atop the war memorial.

Location: Virginia United States USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022004
"By Request Department" shows scenes of soldiers' home towns for soldiers deployed overseas in World War 2; views of several American towns circa 1945.

Busy streets of the cities in the United States. A woman officer at a desk of Army-Navy Screen Magazine's "By Request Department" addresses U.S. soldiers overseas during World War 2, and says they will show views of various American home towns by request. Busy intersection along Capitol Street in Charleston, West Virginia. 1930s automobiles on roads and American citizens walking on city streets. Next scene shows the main street of Wytheville, Virginia with cars, pedestrians, and shops. Next scene is of main street area in Fall River, Massachusetts. Buildings seen on either sides of the streets and buses at bus station depot. Next view is of Springfield Street, looking toward Market Street in the center of Newark, New Jersey. Main streets of Winslow Arizona, with citizens dressed in Western wear, and then a main intersection in Tucson, Arizona, where a paper boy sells newspapers on a street corner.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056101
U.S. Navy personnel including Navy Nurse Corps eat in a mess hall at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.

U.S. Navy personnel at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth. U.S. Navy personnel including Navy Nurse Corps start to fill in a mess hall at the shipyard. Men and women eating at tables.

Location: Portsmouth Virginia USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060974
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