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USS Princeton (CV/CVA/CVS-37, LPH-5) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.The ship was the fifth US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Revolutionary War Battle of Princeton.
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CV-37) pictured at anchor in Tsingtao, China, with aircraft of Carrier Air Group Thirteen (CVG-13) on the flight deck, circa November 1948. Note that her airgroup was composed only of Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat fighters (VF-131, VF-132) and Grumman TBM-3E/-3Q Avenger bombers (VA-15, VA-135).
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Between 1954 and 55, they deployed on board the USS Princeton (CV-37) in helping the evacuation of Republic of China (Nationalist China) forces fleeing the Tachen Islands. [4] After this, the squadron made three more deployments that decade with the Grumman S2F-1 and S2F-2 Tracker. [2] An AF-2W of VS-37 in July 1957.
File:General William Westmoreland aboard USS Princeton (LPH-5), 14 November 1964 (NH 93798).jpg
USS Princeton (PG-13), a gunboat launched in 1897 and commissioned in 1898; USS Princeton (CVL-23), a light aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1943, sunk at Leyte Gulf in 1944; USS Princeton (CV-37), an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1945, serving in the Korean War and Vietnam War, reclassified LPH-5 in 1959, decommissioned 1970
Birmingham attempts to fight fires aboard Princeton during Battle of Leyte Gulf. Completed in the course of 1943, and coming into service with the first eight of the Essex-class carriers, the nine Independence-class ships made up a vital component of the Fast Carrier Task Force, which carried the Navy's offensive through the central and western Pacific from November 1943 through August 1945.