USN Ship Launcing, WWII - 80-G-216111 (30815685380)

80-G-216111: USS Shangri-La (CV 38), launching ceremonies at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, with Mrs. James Doolittle, wife of the Major General, as sponsor. Mrs. James Doolittle, is shown on the launching stand. Left to right: Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr., Mrs. Doolittle, Captain J.E. Manch; Rear Admiral Felix X. Gygax, USN, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, and Mary Louise McClellan, daughter of a Navy Yard workman, who served as flower girl. Photograph released February 24, 1944. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/11/25).