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USS Bataan preparing for her second Korean War deployment
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History | |
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Name | Bataan |
Namesake | Battle of Bataan |
Awarded | 16 December 1940 |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 31 August 1942 |
Launched | 1 August 1943 |
Commissioned | 17 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 11 February 1947 |
Recommissioned | 13 May 1950 |
Decommissioned | 9 April 1954 |
Stricken | 1 September 1959 |
Honors and awards |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping in May 1961 |
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Class and type | Independence-class aircraft carrier |
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Draft | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Speed | 32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
Complement | 156 officers and 1,372 men |
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USS Bataan (CVL-29/AVT-4), originally planned as USS Buffalo (CL-99) and also classified as CV-29, was an 11,000 ton Independence-class light aircraft carrier which was commissioned in the United States Navy during World War II on 17 November 1943. Serving in the Pacific Theatre for the entire war, taking part in operations around New Guinea, the Invasion of the Mariana Islands, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Battle of Okinawa, and Attacks on the Japanese home islands. After World War II's end she was converted into an anti-submarine carrier and placed in reserve on 11 February 1947.
She was reactivated on 13 May 1950 at Philadelphia in order to participate in the Korean War. After the war she returned to Pearl Harbor, and reported for a preinactivation overhaul on 26 August 1953. After moving to the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, Bataan was decommissioned on 9 April 1954 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Francisco. Although she was reclassified an auxiliary aircraft transport and redesignated AVT-4 on 15 May 1959, her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 September 1959. She was sold to Nicolai Joffe Corp., Beverly Hills, California, on 19 June 1961 for scrapping.