U.S.S. SHANGRILA CV-38

USS Shangri-La (CV-38) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned by the United States Navy in September 1944. Named after the mythical place referenced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when explaining the origin of the Doolittle Raid, Shangri-La participated in the final campaigns of World War II in the Pacific, including air strikes against the Japanese home islands. After the war, it was decommissioned but later modernized and recommissioned for service during the Cold War, including deployments in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The ship was finally decommissioned in 1971 and sold for scrap in 1988.