In Popular Culture
While the Savo Island spent the Korean War in mothballs as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, author James Michener fictionally had it in commission and participating in that war as the primary setting for his novella The Bridges at Toko-Ri. The 1954 movie version was filmed aboard the USS Oriskany (CV-34) with its original CV-34 markings, but the ship was still referred to as the Savo Island.
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