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    USS Shangri-La (CV/CVA/CVS-38) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy....
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  • USS Shangri-La (CV-38), an aircraft carrier of World War II Shangri-La Dialogue, an inter-government security forum for Asia-Pacific states Shangri-La...
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    1975 to 1976. Coogan also served as commanding officer of both USS Shangri-La (CV-38) and USS Tolovana (AO-64), commander of Task Force 73, directing Navy...
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    USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the...
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  • the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38), commissioned in 1944. Lost Horizon's concept of Shangri-La has gone on to influence other quasi-Asian...
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    carrier under construction in the company's home state of Massachusetts. USS Shangri-La was named after a facetious remark by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
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    USS Bennington (CV-20): TT USS Monterey (CVL-26): C USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31): SS USS Shangri-La (CV-38): Z Shangri-La is known to have had her Lightning Bolt...
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    recognition in 1965 for her repairs to the bow of the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38) which had collided with a destroyer during maneuvers. Shenandoah...
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  • ships Hull classification symbol And the possible exception of USS Shangri-La (CV-38), which can be said to have been named after a "battle," the Doolittle...
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    intended to allow the World War II-era carriers to operate jet aircraft. USS Oriskany, laid up incomplete at the conclusion of World War II, served as...
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