33°44′18″N 118°16′44″W / 33.7383914°N 118.2789471°W
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| History | |
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| Name | Los Angeles |
| Namesake | City of Los Angeles, California |
| Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| 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 |
| Stricken | 1 January 1974 |
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| Honors and awards | See Awards |
| Fate | Scrapped, 16 May 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Baltimore-class heavy 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 |
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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 Captain John A. Snackenberg in command.