File:USS Shangri-La (CV-38) underway c1950.jpg

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English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38) underway about 1950, while still partially mothballed. Shangri-La recommissioned on 10 May 1951. For the next year, she conducted training and readiness operations out of Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Reclassified as an attack carrier (CVA-38) in 1952, she returned to Puget Sound that fall and decommissioned again on 14 November, this time for her SCB-27C/SCB-125 modernization at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA).
Date circa 1950
date QS:P571,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q3250126
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NH 72675
Source U.S. Navy photo NH 72675

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