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. Commissioned...

Look up Shangri-La in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shangri-La is a fictional valley in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton. Shangri-La may also...

This included a Western Pacific deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La. In January 1958, he entered a six-month test pilot training course...

April for a missile firing demonstration, and then escorted the carrier USS Shangri-La on a high‑speed Atlantic crossing to Mayport, where she arrived 23 May...

United States by ex-US naval servicemen serving on the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La. It is a "One Percenter motorcycle club" with chapters in various parts...

the USS Shangri-La for a Mediterranean deployment from 15 November 1967 to 4 August 1968. VF-62 and CVW-8 was embarked aboard the USS Shangri-La for a Caribbean...

"Shangri-La". The true details of the raid were revealed to the public a year later. This inspired the naming of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La...

January – USS Shangri-La laid down. 17 January – USS Cowpens launched. 21 January – USS Yorktown launched. 22 January – USS Kearsarge renamed USS Hornet...

wing was reassigned to the much smaller Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La in 1966, which necessitated the replacement of the F-4B Phantom II fighter...

made a single deployment aboard USS Shangri-La to the Western Pacific. VF-111 deployed the Western Pacific aboard USS Lexington in 1956. In 1961 the Sundowners'...

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...

attack with special weapons. In 1960, VA-12 was part of airwing of the USS Shangri-La when that carrier was deployed to counter Cuban infiltration into Guatemala...

Command and control ship USS Northampton and carrier USS Shangri-La were also reportedly active in the Caribbean at the time. USS San Marcos was a Landing...

embarked on board USS Essex for a Mediterranean deployment from 7 August 1959 to 26 February 1960. VF-13 was embarked aboard USS Shangri-La for Mediterranean...

deployments to the Mediterranean Sea with the USS Shangri-La between 1961 and 1965. CVW-10 was shifted in 1966 to the USS Intrepid, which was used as an attack...

A4D-2 Douglas Skyhawk in March 1958. In August 1965, VA-46 was on board USS Shangri-La and operated off the coast of Cyprus in response to a crisis in that...

aboard the USS Lexington (CV-16) as the USS Shangri-La was in the New York Navy Yard. May 1963: The squadron operated from USS Shangri-La in the Caribbean...

April 1945. On 17 May, he hoisted his flag on the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La at Ulithi. He relieved Mitscher on 28 May, and resumed command of Task...

fail carrier acceptance, and this version was again trialled on the USS Shangri-La. A wing failure on a heavy landing caused the failure of this carrier...

1943. The Navy, in 1944, commissioned the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La, with Doolittle's wife Josephine as the sponsor. The Doolittle Raiders...

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 on the flight deck...

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...

2023. "John L. Sullivan Papers". Truman Library. Retrieved 2007-08-20. "Shangri-La (CV-38)". USN Naval History and Heritage Command. 2020-05-09. Retrieved...

Detachment 38 KA-3Bs were embarked on USS Shangri-La 22 October 1970 – 3 June 1971, Detachment 62 KA-3Bs were embarked on USS Hancock VAH-10 was re-designated...

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...

USS Wasp USS Hancock ‡ USS Bennington USS Boxer ‡ USS Bon Homme Richard USS Leyte ‡ USS Kearsarge ‡ USS Antietam ‡ USS Princeton ‡ USS Shangri-La ‡ USS Lake...

States Navy, serving as the deck officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La in the Pacific theater. He was part of the inaugural class of inductees...

starboard deck edge, in a position relatively far aft. The next three (Shangri-La, Lexington and Bon Homme Richard), which underwent 27C and 125 concurrently...

designation DD-883. On 26 August 1965, she collided with the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La off Sardinia, in the Mediterranean, killing one and injuring another...

carrier takeoff and landing equipment and successfully tested on the USS Shangri-La, but the Navy did not continue development.[citation needed] PBJ-1J...