Battle of Leyte in the Pacific Campaign of World War II. A convoy of United States ships underway at sea in the Philippines. U.S. soldiers clean equipment aboard a Landing Ship Medium. The crew members clean weapons. A convoy of Landing Ship Medium underway at sea. An officer looks through binoculars.
Battle of Leyte in the Pacific Campaign of World War II in Philippines. A convoy of United States ships underway at sea. A convoy of Landing Ship Medium underway at sea. United States soldiers aboard the ship. Smoke rise with an explosion on land in the background.
Battle of Leyte in the Pacific Campaign of World War II in Philippines. A convoy of United States ships arrives at Palo Beach in Leyte, Philippines. Smoke rise with an explosion on the beach. Battleships fire at Japanese enemy on the beach. A convoy of ships underway.
USS Shangri La (CV-38) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia during her launching. Ground views of USS Shangri La (CV-38) on ways. Workers in the foreground. Ground views of Shipyard. Workers on dock wave to workers on flight deck of ship.
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.)
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