1944–1948 After a
shakedown cruise out of
Guantánamo Bay,
Cuba,
Los Angeles sailed on 15 October for the
Far East via the west coast and arrived at
Shanghai, China, on 3 January 1946. During the next year she operated with the
7th Fleet along the coast of China and in the western Pacific to the
Marianas. She returned to
San Francisco, California, on 21 January 1947, and was decommissioned at
Hunters Point on 9 April 1948, and entered the
Pacific Reserve Fleet.
1951–1953 Los Angeles was recommissioned on 27 January 1951, Capt. Robert N. McFarlane in command. In response to the American efforts in the
Korean War, she sailed for the Far East 14 May and joined naval operations off the eastern coast of
Korea on 31 May as flagship for Rear Admiral
Arleigh A. Burke's CRUDIV 5. During the next six months she ranged the coastal waters of the Korean Peninsula from
Hungnam in the east to
Haeju in the west while her guns pounded enemy coastal positions. After returning to the United States on 17 December for overhaul and training, she made her second deployment to Korean waters on 9 October 1952 and participated on 11 October in a concentrated shelling of enemy bunkers and observation points at
Koji-ni. During the next few months, she continued to provide
off-shore gunfire support for American ground operations, and cruised the
Sea of Japan with fast carriers of the 7th Fleet. While participating in the bombardment of
Wonsan late in March and early in April 1953, she received minor damage from enemy shore batteries, but continued operations until sailing for the west coast in mid-April. She arrived at
Long Beach on 15 May.
1953–1963 Between November 1953 and June 1963
Los Angeles made eight more deployments to the Far East where she served as a cruiser division flagship with the 7th Fleet in support of "keeping the peace" operations in that troubled part of the world. Her operations sent her from the coast of Japan to the Sea of Japan, the
Yellow Sea, and the East and
South China Seas; and with units of the 7th Fleet she steamed to American bases in the
Philippines and
Okinawa, as well as to Allied bases in South Korea,
Hong Kong,
Australia, and
Taiwan. During the Quemoy-Matsu crisis in 1956, she patrolled the
Taiwan Strait to help protect ROC Army units from possible landing offenses from Communist China. When not deployed in the western Pacific,
Los Angeles operated out of Long Beach along the west coast and in the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands. She returned to Long Beach from her final Far East deployment on 20 June 1963. ==Decommissioning and sale==