“Flying Clipper” included also more than 5 minutes of footage from aboard USS Shangri-La (CVA-38), one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for ...

What You Need to Know: USS Shangri-La (CV-38) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier launched in 1944 and commissioned with Captain James D. Barner at the helm. Designed to be longer, wider ...

What You Need to Know: USS Shangri-La (CV-38) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier launched in 1944 and commissioned with Captain James D. Barner at the helm. Designed to be longer, ...

When it comes to the 100 years of U.S. Navy aircraft ... a carrier named after him and also the inspiration of one of the most unusual of names for an aircraft carrier. USS Shangri-La (CV 38 ...

But fate interceded in 1944, before the bell ever made it to the USS Shangri-La. Fire hit the warehouse it was stored in near the Portsmouth, Va., shipyard where the carrier was under construction.