The USS Los Angeles (CA-135) was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser laid down on July 28, 1943, and launched on August 20, the following year. It was commissioned on July 22, 1945, under Capt. John A. Snackenberg’s command as CA-135 and served in the U.S. Navy for 15 years until it was decommissioned on November 15, 1963. During its activities, the ship carried a complement of 1,142 people on board and had its main missions in Guantanamo, Shanghai, the Marianas, San Francisco, Korea, Hungnam, Haeju, Wonsan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia. After decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy Register on January 1, 1974, and sold for scrapping to the National Steel Corporation in San Pedro the following year. Today, it is well-known that asbestos exposure could bring forth severe health problems, including various cancers and severe respiratory conditions. For medical practitioners to confirm a link between asbestos exposure and each of these diseases it is essential to establish exactly how much asbestos a person was exposed to. This can be determined by conducting a chest X-ray to check for changes in the lungs from asbestos exposure, and pulmonary function tests among others.
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