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The ship was laid down as the Cleveland-class light cruiser Tallahassee (CL-61) by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, 2 June 1941.She was reclassified as the Independence-class light aircraft carrier CV-23 on 16 February 1942, renamed Princeton 31 March 1942, launched 18 October 1942, sponsored by Margaret Dodds (wife of Princeton University president Harold Dodds), and ...
CVL-22 Independence: Independence (lead ship) 14 January 1943 28 August 1946 3 years, 226 days Sunk as target ship near the Farallon Islands in 1951 [39] CVL-23 Princeton: Independence: 25 February 1943 24 October 1944 1 year, 242 days Sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 [11] CVL-24 Belleau Wood: Independence: 31 March 1943 13 January 1947
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.
Following shakedown in the Caribbean, she was reclassified CVL-23 on July 15, 1943. Princeton participated in the First and Second Rabaul Air Strikes, on November 5 and 11, 1943, severely damaging many enemy combatant ships in Rabaul harbor. By January 1944 Henderson was serving as Commander Aircraft, Munda and Commander Fleet Air Wing One.
Princeton off Qingdao, China, in 1948.. The ship was laid down as Valley Forge – one of the "long-hull" Essex class – on 14 September 1943 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.She was renamed Princeton on 21 November 1944 to commemorate the light carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23), which was lost at the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 24 October 1944.
Bob Cole, 100, stands near a model of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), on which Cole served, on the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the ship, while visiting the Veterans Memorial Museum ...
He then set out to interview the crash's survivors himself, and encouraged his actors to speak to them as well. "We had over 100 hours of recordings. And then we kept in contact with the survivors ...
USS Princeton (CVL-23) USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) USN raid on Tarawa and Makin Islands (18–19 September 1943) USN Task Force 50: USS Lexington (2) (CV-16) USS Princeton (CVL-23) USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) IJN ferry troops and equipment to reinforce Truk (Sept – October 1943) IJN Junyo (CVL) RN Atlantic convoy escort (23 September 1943 – 25 ...