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That caused me to look up how the heck that name even happened, which is kind of bad ass.
“After the Doolittle Raid, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet, President Roosevelt answered a reporter's question by saying that the raid had been launched from "Shangri-La", the fictional faraway land of the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon.“
For those who have read this novel - at least me - this distant monastery seems to be rather a lifelong jail. But ok, this carrier by her PBJ/P51 deck landing trials in 1944 made first USN step to Alpha Strike doctrine, so this name is great