James Hilton (novelist) the occasional Tibetan monks in saffron robes. The name "Shangri-La" has become a byword for a mythical utopia, a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. After the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, when the fact that the bombers had flown from an aircraft carrier remained highly classified, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the press facetiously that they had taken off from Shangri-La. The Navy subsequently gave that name to an aircraft carrier, and Roosevelt named his Maryland presidential retreat "Shangri-La". (Later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David after his grandson, and that name has been used
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower or foreign militant supporters escaping" Somalia. In March 2007, following the Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel, "Dwight D. Eisenhower" began battle group exercises off the Iranian coastline. The following month, in April, the ship was relieved by "Nimitz". On 4 October 2008 "Dwight D. Eisenhower" Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Lemar Robinson was killed aboard ship during training exercises off the coast of North Carolina. The sailor was struck and mortally wounded, by an airplane at 8:15 p.m. on the carrier's flight deck. On 21 February 2009, "Dwight D. Eisenhower" deployed for the Arabian Sea and environs rotating into