USS Los Angeles (CA-135)
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| Name: | Los Angeles |
| Namesake: | Los Angeles, California |
| Builder: | Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia |
| Laid down: | 28 July 1943 |
| Launched: | 20 August 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 22 July 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 April 1948 |
| Recommissioned: | 27 January 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 November 1963 |
| Struck: | 1 January 1974 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol:CA-135 |
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| Honors and awards: |
5 battle stars (Korea) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to Terminal Island's National Metal and Steel Corp. on 16 MAY 1975 for $1,036,089 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Baltimore-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 13,600 long tons (13,818 t) |
| Length: | 674 ft 11 in (205.71 m) |
| Beam: | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
| Draft: | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk floatplane |
| Official name | USS Los Angeles Naval Monument (John S. Gibson Jr. Park) |
| Designated | 3 May 1978 |
| Reference no. | 188 |
The third USS Los Angeles (CA-135) was a Baltimore class heavy cruiser, laid down by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, on 28 July 1943 and launched on 20 August 1944. She was sponsored by Mrs. Fletcher Bowron and commissioned on 22 July 1945, with Capt. John A. Snackenberg in command.
After shakedown out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Los Angeles sailed on 15 October for the Far East via the west coast and arrived at Shanghai, China, on 3 January 1946. During the next year she operated with the 7th Fleet along the coast of China and in the western Pacific to the Marianas. She returned to San Francisco, California, on 21 January 1947, and was decommissioned at Hunters Point on 9 April 1948, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Los Angeles was recommissioned on 27 January 1951, Capt. Robert N. McFarlane in command. In response to the American efforts to thwart Communist aggression in the Republic of Korea, she sailed for the Far East 14 May and joined naval operations off the eastern coast of Korea on 31 May as flagship for Rear Adm. Arleigh A. Burke's CRUDIV 5. During the next six months she ranged the coastal waters of the Korean Peninsula from Hungnam in the east to Haeju in the west while her guns pounded enemy coastal positions. After returning to the United States on 17 December for overhaul and training, she made her second deployment to Korean waters on 9 October 1952 and participated on 11 October in a concentrated shelling of enemy bunkers and observation points at Koji-ni. During the next few months, she continued to provide off-shore gunfire support for American ground operations, and in addition she cruised the Sea of Japan with fast carriers of the 7th Fleet. While participating in the bombardment of Wonsan late in March and early in April 1953, she received minor damage from enemy shore batteries, but continued operations until sailing for the west coast in mid-April. She arrived at Long Beach on 15 May.
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