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Aircraft Carrier USS Shangri-La CV-38 Is Launched
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keywords: wwii, aircraft carrier uss shangri-la cv-38, major general jimmy doolittle, launch of doolittle raid
Synopsis: As a nod to the famous Doolittle Raid against the Japanese homeland the Aircraft Carrier USS Shangri-La CV-38 is launched from a naval shipyard with scenes Major General Jimmy Doolittle and wife at the White House as well as scenes of the actual launch of Doolittle Raid from US Navy Aircraft Carrier (2005-11t.txt)...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:01:16
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Aircraft Carrier USS Shangri-La CV-38 Is Launched
President Roosevelt decorates Major General Jimmy Doolittle in White House office as Mrs. Doolittle looks on. Image of General Doolittle and his wife.
Flashbacks show B-25 Mitchell bombers on the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet CV-8. General Jimmy Doolittle and crews of the B-25 aircraft shown with bomb in FG, CU of bomb. B-25 Mitchell bombers take off from carrier USS Hornet on Tokyo bombing raid April 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt when asked to reveal the base from which the B-25 bombers took off answered Shangri-La. - a mythical place but great propaganda.
Mrs. Doolittle christens the new aircraft carrier Shangri-La. The new aircraft carrier Shangri-La slides down the slipways ways into the water.
- Related Titles:
- Military Newsreels: 1944 - Issue 18
