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USS Princeton (CG-59) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy.Armed with naval guns and anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine missiles, plus other weapons, she is equipped for surface-to-air, surface-to-surface, and anti-submarine warfare.
The fourth USS Princeton (CVL-23) was a United States Navy Independence-class light aircraft carrier active in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. She was launched in 1942 and lost at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.
List of Gulf War military equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the ... USS San Jacinto, USS Philippine Sea, USS Princeton, USS ...
USS Valley Forge CG-50; USS Princeton CG-59; USS Paul F. Foster DD-964; USS Harry W. Hill DD-986; USS Jarrett FFG-33; USS Francis Hammond FF-1067; USS Ranger had a very different air wing compared to most carriers in the Gulf War as it was in the 'Grumman Air Wing' format. This meant it didn't have the F/A-18 or A-7E Corsair, which were the 2 ...
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
Pages in category "Gulf War ships of the United States" ... USS Portland (LSD-37) USS Princeton (CG-59) MV Pvt. Franklin J. Phillips; R. USS Raleigh (LPD-1)
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, generally considered to be the largest naval combat in history, was fought 24–25 October 1944 in the waters of the Philippine Islands by elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet (bringing together the IJN's 2nd Fleet, 3rd Fleet and 5th Fleet) and the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet (bringing together the USN's 3rd Fleet and 7th Fleet).
USS Princeton was the largest American ship lost during the battles around Leyte Gulf, and the only Independence-class fast carrier sunk in combat during the war. 17 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters and 12 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers went down with Princeton. [41]