Built too late to see action in World War II, the heavy cruiser Los Angeles returns to Pearl harbor today a bloody veteran of the war in Korea.
    The 13,600 ton ship was to dock at Baker 25, near the Pearl Harbor Receiving Station, this afternoon, after seven months in Korean waters where she was struck twice by Communist shore gunfire.
    Eighteen of her crew were wounded during her last month of war duty, on March 27 and April 2, while she participated in the bombardment and blockade of Wonsan.

SCORED DIRECT HITS
    Communist shells scored direct hits on the ship, damaging her radar control room, the forward mast and a three-inch gun mount.
    The cruiser engaged the shore batteries in return, knocking out one building, a row of bunkers, three trucks, a supply stockpile and rail and highway bridges.
    Commanded by Capt. L. R. Daspit, the Los Angeles is the flagship of Rear Adm. W. V. O'Regan, commander of Cruiser Division Five, who is returning on the ship to the homeport of Long Beach, Calif.
    This has been the vessel's second tour of duty in the Far East since her re-commissioning in 1951.
    The Los Angeles was built in Philadelphia between 1943 and 1945 at a cost of $45,000,000.  She was sent to the "mothball fleet" in 1947 after two years of peacetime service.
    The second surface naval vessel to bear the name - the first Los Angeles was a Navy tanker - the present cruiser is the third Los Angeles on Navy rolls, however.
    The Navy for years operated a dirigible Los Angeles, an airship built by the Germans during World War I, taken over by the United States following that war and de-commissioned some years ago.