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Patches contributed by Mike Smolinski (left),
and Chris Novak, webmaster, USS Bataan CVL-29 Association (right)

USS BATAAN   (CVL-29)
(later AVT-4)



Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Foxtrot - Golf - Juliet

Unit Awards, Campaign and Service Medals and Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5 stars) / World War II Victory Medal
2nd Row: Navy Occupation Service Medal ("Asia" clasp) / National Defense Service Medal (Korea) / Korean Service Medal (7 stars)
3rd Row: Korean Presidential Unit Citation / United Nations Korean Medal / Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

CLASS - INDEPENDENCE
Displacement 11,000 Tons, Dimensions, 622' 6" (oa) x 71' 6" x 26' (Max)
Armament 24 x 40mm, 22 x 20mm AA, 30 Aircraft.
Armor, 5" Belt, 2" Decks, 1/2" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 100,000 SHP; G.E. Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 31.5 Knots, Crew 1569.

Independence Class Light Aircraft Carrier
Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Stricken
16 Dec 1940(*)
2 Jun 1942(**)
31 Aug 1942 1 Aug 1943 17 Nov 1943
13 May 1950
11 Feb 1947
9 Apr 1954

1 Sep 1959
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.
(*) As a Light Cruiser (CL-99), see below
(**) As an Aircraft Carrier (CV-29), see below

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Buffalo
NS022933
109k

Ordered on 16 December 1940 as a Cleveland-class light cruiser, this ship was assigned hull number CL-99 and named Buffalo, for a city in western New York state at the northeastern extreme of Lake Erie (NS022933). It is the seat of government for Erie County.

Designated for completion as an aircraft carrier she was redesignated CV-29, renamed Bataan and reordered from New York S.B., 2 June 1942.

Bataan is a peninsula 25 miles long and 20 miles wide at its base that forms the west side of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon in the Philippines (NS022933a). Following the Japanese landings on Luzon in mid-December 1941 and their successful advance toward Manila, General Douglas MacArthur, Commander, United States Army Forces in the Far East, ordered his forces to withdraw into the Bataan peninsula on 24 December. Just over two weeks later, on 9 January, elements of Lieutenant General Homma Masaharu's 14th Army attacked the American and Filipino troops defending the peninsula. Although driven back from their initial defensive positions, the American and Filipino troops held their secondary defensive line, forcing Homma to call off his offensive on 8 February. Japanese attempts to outflank the defensive lines through amphibious landings on the peninsula also failed.

The defenders of Bataan, however, were blockaded and isolated by the surrounding Japanese air and naval forces. Malnutrition and disease weakened the troops and, when they realized no Allied help was coming from Pearl Harbor or Australia, their morale plummeted as well. Meanwhile, Japanese reinforcements strengthened Homma's forces, and he launched a second offensive on 3 April. This attack, coming three weeks after MacArthur left for Australia, broke through the defensive lines and defeated an American counter-attack. On 9 April, in order to prevent unnecessary slaughter, the remaining 78,000 defenders surrendered. They were forced to march more than 60 miles (some 100 km) from Bataan to Capas, Tarlac, in what became known as the Bataan Death March. About 2,000 men escaped from Bataan to the fortified island of Corregidor, where they held out against the Japanese air and artillery bombardment until themselves surrendering on 6 May.

NS022933b: Fall of Bataan historical marker. Photo by Ramon F. Velasquez, courtesy of Wikipedia.

(Maps NS022933 and NS022933a courtesy of Google Maps.)

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NS022933a
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Bataan
NS022933b
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World War II
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022931
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"CVL 29, launched at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, 1 August 1943. . . The Maid-of-Honor, Miss Maria Osmena, daughter of Honorable Sergio Osmena, then Vice-President of the Philippine Commonwealth, and the Sponsor, Mrs. George Murray, wife of Rear Admiral George D. Murray."

Ron Reeves
Restored copy submitted by Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022931a
49k David Wright
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022911
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Sailors on the carrier's forecastle during her Commissioning ceremonies, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 November 1943. Note ship's jack flying at left and her starboard anchor (18,000 pound type) at right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph (# NH 75602), courtesy of Mr. James Russell, 1972.

NHC
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022912
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Captain Valentine H. Schaeffer, USN, the carrier's Commanding Officer, cuts the cake at a reception following her commissioning ceremonies, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 November 1943. Looking on are Philippine Commonwealth Vice President Sergio Osmeña and Miss Rosie Osmeña.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97311).

NHC
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022912a
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Commissioning Plaque:

"... no ship bears a more illustrious name. The U.S.S. Bataan commemorates a campaign that has become a symbol of the fortitude and endurance of free men in the face of overwhelming odds. It has a rendezvous with Destiny that shall not be denied ..."

Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy.

Courtesy of Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022901
75k Good overhead, showing the layout of this class. USN
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022926
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USS Bataan (CVL-29) underway, date and location unknown.

Tommy Trampp
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022914
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USS Bataan (CVL-29) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 2 March 1944. She is painted in Measure 32 Design 8A camouflage pattern.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 45508).

Robert Hurst
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022914a
477k

USS Bataan (CVL-29) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 2 March 1944. Aircraft parked on her flight deck, forward, are TBM Avenger torpedo planes.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC), # NH 92287.

Robert Hurst
Larger copy courtesy of NHHC
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022914b
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USS Bataan (CVL-29) off Philadelphia Navy Yard, 2 March 1944. The colour demarcations of Design 8A (Measure 32) are clearly visible. As is well known, the internal decks of these ships lay parallel to the waterline, and not to the line of the main (upper) deck; the tapering section between contained empty spaces, lift shafts and stowage space. Note that the undersurfaces of overhanging parts are mostly painted white. Photo USN (A. D. Baker Collection).

Robert Hurst
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022925
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VF-50 "Devil Cats" made one combat deployment aboard USS Bataan (CVL-29), April–July 1944, under LCDR Johnnie C. Strange, with F6F-3 Hellcats.

Disney design, Bandit Fox riding on F6F Hellcat, flight jacket patch.

Tommy Trampp
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022925a
58k
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022902
177k

USS Bataan (CVL-29). View forward, showing alterations. Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif., 29 September 1944. Photo # 2498-44-S8 (?).

Pieter Bakels
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022902a
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USS Bataan (CVL-29). View aft, showing alterations. Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif., 29 September 1944. Photo # 2499-44-S8.

Pieter Bakels
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022919
170k

USS Bataan (CVL-29). Broadside, starboard view. Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif., 6 October 1944. Photo # 2680-44-S4.

This view shows the starboard side of her camouflage scheme (Measure 32/Design 8A) to advantage.

David Buell
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022913
109k

USS Bataan (CVL-29) in October 1944, probably ferrying aircraft to Hawaii. Note her camouflage, Ms. 32 Design 8A.

National Archives, College Park, Maryland via Dwayne A. Day
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022913a
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022913b
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022913c
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022913d
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022913e
126k Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022936
876k

Near miss by Japanese plane on USS Bataan (CVL-29), unit of Task Force off Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. As seen from USS Essex (CV-9), 17 March 1945.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-373773.

NARA
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022936a
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Near miss by Japanese plane on USS Bataan (CVL-29), unit of Task Force off Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. As seen from USS Essex (CV-9), 17 March 1945.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-373774.

CVL-29 Bataan
NS022941
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USS Franklin (CV-13) "lost all steering control and came to a halt. The list to starboard increased to about 13 degrees and the ship started to turn in that direction—directly at the Bataan. CDR Atkinson recalls putting the Bataan to right rudder and flanking speed to keep the Franklin from ramming the Bataan."

Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022907
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Carrier Strikes on Japan, March 1945 — A Japanese Navy Judy (Yokosuka D4Y3) bomber passes near USS Bataan (CVL-29) during an unsuccessful dive bombing run on Task Force 58, while the U.S. ships were operating off Japan on 20 March 1945. The Japanese plane was soon brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Photographed from USS Hancock (CV-19). Bataan is the ship in the center of the view.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-319232).

Scott Dyben
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022907a
134k

"March 20, 1945: Under attack off Okinawa, the U.S.S. Bataan CVL-29 escapes damage from a 500-lb. bomb dropped by a Japanese Judy, which was subsequently shot down."

Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022934
528k

USS Bataan (CVL-29), 11 April 1945. Japanese aerial attack on Task Group 58.3, altitude 1400. Shown: Splashed by anti-aircraft fire near miss. Photographed from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17).

Official US Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-317421.

NARA
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022934a
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USS Bataan (CVL-29), 11 April 1945. Japanese aerial attack on Task Group 58.3, altitude 1400. Shown: Splashed by anti-aircraft fire near miss. Photographed from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17).

Official US Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-317422.

NARA
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022940
2.58M

An F6F-5 Hellcat rests on the flight deck of USS Bataan (CVL-29) as Marine and Navy Honor Guards prepare for a burial at sea off Okinawa, 18 April 1945.

An Honor Guard carries the flag-draped body of a shipmate from the deck elevator. There is a rifle detachment ready for the ceremony of burial at sea.

Official US Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Bob Canchola, BT, USN (Ret.)
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022915
74k

Officer of the Deck, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Howard W. Milke, USNR, welcomes entertainer Pascacio Alinangohan as he boards the ship in 1945. Mr. Alinangohan, a former guerrilla Captain whose stage name is "Professor Paz", led a troupe of dancers, singers and guitarists in a show for the carrier's crew. The plaque behind them features a quotation from the speech given by Philippine President Manuel Quezon at USS Bataan's launching ceremonies on 1 August 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 47859).

NHC
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022916
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Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Edward Iglesias, USNR, accompanies Miss Estefanie Veloso, grandaughter of Philippine Commonwealth President Sergio Osmeña, as she inspects the cockpit of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter, while touring the ship on 10 June 1945. Bataan had just completed her tour with Task Force 58 on 30 May. The touring party comprised Mrs. Edilbertio Osmeña, daughter-in-law of President Osmeña; Mr. & Mrs. Juan Veloso, son-in-law and daughter of the President; and Miss Veloso. Conducting the guests on the tour of the ship was Captain Ward C. Gilbert, USN. Also accompanying the party were various Philippine and United States officials.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 48995).

NHC
CVL-29 Bataan+AF-10+CL-95
NS09061045
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USS Aldebaran (AF-10) re-supplying USS Oakland (CL-95) and USS Bataan (CVL-29) on the morning of 26 July 1945. Task Group (TG) 38.3 ran with the fleet train of TG 30.8 all day past dusk.

George Silk, LIFE magazine, hitched a hop in a USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) Air Group 87 DCAP flight to shoot the forces' activity. Photo used for educational and non-commercial purpose.

John Chiquoine
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022930
135k

"Pilots of Fighting Squadron Forty-Seven 'Fighting Cocks' receive the news in their ready room aboard USS Bataan (CVL-29) that Japan has surrendered. Pilots in the picture are:

Front Row: LT Vlada D. Bursik, USN and LT(JG) Rudolph Sykora, USNR,
Second Row: LT(JG) Theodore I. Veiock, Jr. USNR; LT Max C. Replogle, USNR; one hidden, and LT Marion O. Marks, USNR,
Third row: ENS William D. Lamborn, USNR; LT Donald R. Begin, USNR; LT Claude B. McCurry, USNR; LCDR Albert H. Clancy Jr., USN, Air Group Commander; LT(JG) Glenn E. Avery, USNR; ENS William H. Elder, USNR, and LT Stanley F. Wear, USNR,
Back row: LT(JG) James J. Carpenter, USNR; LT(JG) Frank Powers, USNR, (a ship's officer); LT(JG) Banjamin A. Duvall, USNR; ENS James J. LaCave, USN, and LT(JG) Tony R. Royster, USNR." US Navy Photo now in the collection of the National Archives, College Park, MD." (Photo # 80-G-345727).

Tracy White, Researcher @ Large
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022927
150k

"CVL-29 Bataan's island showing the record of her last air group in World War Two and ship's guns. Air Group 47 was embarked on Bataan from March 1 until August 21 of 1945. US Navy Photo now in the collection of the National Archives in College Park, Maryland." (Photo # 80-G-345728).

Tracy White, Researcher @ Large
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920b
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USS Bataan (CVL-29), with planes spotted on her flight deck, heads into the Panama Canal, 8 October 1945.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, Lot 10625-3.

Mike Green
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920a
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Aerial view, as above. This photo, colorized, appeared as the "Picture of Week" in LIFE magazine, October 22, 1945 issue.

Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920c
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Overhead view of USS Bataan (CVL-29) in the Miraflores Locks while transiting the Panama Canal, 9–11 October 1945.

LIFE magazine, Thomas Mcavoy photographer.

Mike Green
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920d
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Starboard quarter view of USS Bataan (CVL-29) exiting locks while transiting the Panama Canal, 9–11 October 1945.

LIFE magazine, Thomas Mcavoy photographer.

Mike Green
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920e
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Starboard bow view of USS Bataan (CVL-29) in the locks while transiting the Panama Canal, 9–11 October 1945.

LIFE magazine, Thomas Mcavoy photographer.

Mike Green
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920
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USS Bataan (CVL-29) in the Panama Canal, October 9–11 1945, en route to New York.

John Varnado
Restored copy submitted by Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920f
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Close-up starboard bow view of USS Bataan (CVL-29) in the locks while transiting the Panama Canal, 9–11 October 1945.

LIFE magazine, Thomas Mcavoy photographer.

Mike Green
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022920g
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Overhead view of USS Bataan (CVL-29) and USS Mississippi (BB-41) in Limon Bay, after transiting the Panama Canal, 11 October 1945.

LIFE magazine, Thomas Mcavoy photographer.

Mike Green
The 1950s
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022932
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"I think this was taken after Bataan's reactivation for Korea. She still has the WW2 configuration of four smokestacks; later these were consolidated into two."

Courtesy of Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022918
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USS Bataan (CVL-29) during gunnery practice in the early to mid-1950s. She is firing at KD2R drone target planes launched from LSM-546.

Gary Priolo
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022903
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USS Bataan (CVL-29) circa 1951, location unknown.

Official U.S. Navy photo. It appeared in the 1954–1955 issue of Jane's Fighting Ships.

Robert Hurst
Courtesy of Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022923
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Marine Corps Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsairs being readied aboard USS Bataan (CVL-29) for a strike against enemy supply routes during the Korean War. Photo U.S. Navy, Official.

Photo and text from Aircraft Carriers, by Norman Polmar.

Robert Hurst
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022935
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A direct hit on enemy mine-layers is scored by a U.S. Marine Corsair with a napalm (or white-phosphorus?) bomb, during close-air support by the First Marine Air Wing flying from USS Bataan (CVL-29) to support UN ground troops in Korea, 16 April 1951.

U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-429631.

NARA
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022935a
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A direct hit on enemy mine-layers is scored by a U.S. Marine Corsair with a napalm (or white-phosphorus?) bomb, during close-air support by the First Marine Air Wing flying from USS Bataan (CVL-29) to support UN ground troops in Korea, 16 April 1951.

U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-429656.

CVL-29 Bataan
NS022942
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Australian destroyer HMAS Bataan (D191) screening USS Bataan (CVL-29) off Korea, 17 April 1951.

Naval History and Heritage Command photo.

John Boylan, for his father,
Edward Boylan, who served aboard USS Bataan
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022908
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USS Bataan (CVL-29) arrives at San Diego, California, with her crew paraded on deck, as she returns from seven months in Korean waters. Photo is dated 25 June 1951.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), photo # 80-G-437649.

Scott Dyben
Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022921
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Photo of USS Bataan (CVL-29) possibly taken on the same occasion as the one above.

Don Garner
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022904
176k Three photos of the Bataan after being modernized from July–November, 1951 for ASW operations. She now is equipped with a standard two level bridge, and her main mast carries an HF/DF antenna visible among her surface to air dipoles. Her four uptakes have been trunked together leaving only two, after the refit USN
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022905
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Same as above, except that a Douglas C-47 Skytrain is visible, parked at her stern. She retains a quadruple 40mm mount at the bow and stern.

Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022906
320k

Starboard quarter view of USS Bataan (CVL-29) showing her uptakes and bridge supports clearly. A quadruple 40mm mount is visible directly astern. Date and location unknown.

Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022928
146k

"NY8-5810   Puget Sound Naval Shipyard   December 10, 1951
U.S.S. Bataan (CVL 29)
Radio/Radar Antenna Arrangement & Rigging
Stern View (180°)
(Per BuShips Manual Chapter 67-44)"

NARA Local Identifier: rg19nn-b1585-002-001

NARA
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022928a
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"NY8-5811   Puget Sound Naval Shipyard   December 10, 1951
U.S.S. Bataan (CVL29)
Radio/Radar Antenna Arrangement & Rigging
Bow View (000°)
(Per BuShips Manual Chapter 67-44)"

NARA Local Identifier: rg19nn-b1585-002-002

CVL-29 Bataan
NS022928b
146k

"NY8-5812   Puget Sound Naval Shipyard   December 10, 1951
U.S.S. Bataan (CVL29)   Radio/Radar Antenna Arrangement & Rigging
Stbd. View (045°)
(Per BuShips Manual Chapter 67-44)"

NARA Local Identifier: rg19nn-b1585-002-003

CVL-29 Bataan
NS022928c
159k

"NY8-5813   Puget Sound Naval Shipyard   December 10, 1951
U.S.S. Bataan (CVL 29)   Radio/Radar Antenna Arrangement & Rigging
Stbd. View (135°)
(Per BuShips Manual Chapter 67-44)"

NARA Local Identifier: rg19nn-b1585-002-004

CVL-29 Bataan
NS022928d
142k

"NY8-5814   Puget Sound Naval Shipyard   December 10, 1951
U.S.S. Bataan (CVL 29)   Radio/Radar Antenna Arrangement & Rigging
Stbd. View (090°)
(Per BuShips Manual Chapter 67-44)"

NARA Local Identifier: rg19nn-b1585-002-005

CVL-29 Bataan
NS022909
600k

Underway in January 1952 with F4U-4B Corsair fighter-bombers of VMF-314 on board. Photo was taken as she was working up in preparation for her second Korean War deployment.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-633888).

Of note are the arrester wires that have been fitted as far back as the midships section of her flight deck; the port side hull bulge, utilised as a side deck, is clearly visible. SPS-6 and SP radars, and YE aircraft homing beacon are carried. (Thanks to Robert Hurst).

Scott Dyben
Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022909a
333k

Another aerial view, apparently taken at about the same time as the photo above.

Chris Novak, Webmaster/Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Reunion Association
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022945
639k

Captain William Miller, USN, accepts clothes collected by the Brownies of Coronado, California, for delivery by USS Bataan (CVL-29) to the needy of South Korea, 4 June 1952.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-442881.

NARA
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022929
67k

Starboard side view of USS Bataan (CVL-29) at anchor, August 1952. The view is from HMAS Bataan (D191), which is entering the anchorage as part of the United Nations Fleet. Note that Bataan is configured with two deck edge stacks, losing two in a rebuild after her first Korean deployment.

Source: >Australian War Memorial, Photo No. HOBJ3395.

Mike Green
Edward Boylan served aboard USS Bataan (CVL-29) during her third Far East tour (28 October 1952–26 May 1953).

These are some of the pictures he took, shared with us by his son, John Boylan.



CVL-29 Bataan
NS022943
Yokosuka, Japan. Probably 9–10 February 1953 (note F4U-4 and F4U-4B Corsairs from VMA-312 "Checkerboards").
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022943a
Transferring mail with USS Hanson (DDR-832).
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022943b
Actor Raymond Burr during his USO tour, April or May 1953.
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022943c
Bataan returning from Far East cruise.
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CVL-29 Bataan
NS022944
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Marine Attack Squadrom (VMA) 312 "Checkerboards," under the administrative control of Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 12, and operating for short periods at K-6, maintained the wing's leg at sea and was based primarily aboard the carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29).

Tommy Trampp
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022924
147k

TBM-3 Avenger of Air Anti-Submarine Squadron (VS) 871 launching from USS Bataan (CVL-29), 1953. VS-871 was called to active duty in May 1951 and deployed to the Korean War zone in October 1952 aboard Bataan, returning home in February 1953 aboard USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116). VS-871 was redesignated VS-37 in June 1953.

Courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022917
641k

USS Bataan (CVL-29) photographed on 22 May 1953, as she was en route to Naval Air Station San Diego, California, following a deployment to Korean waters. Note crew paraded on the flight deck spelling out the word "HOME" and an arrow pointing over her bow. Aircraft on deck include 19 Grumman AF Guardian anti-submarine planes and a solitary Vought F4U Corsair fighter (parked amidships on the starboard side).

U.S. Naval History & Heritage Command (NH&HC) Photograph, # NH 95808.

NH&HC
CVL-29 Bataan
NS022922
26k

USS Bataan (CVL-29), as she appeared in the 1950s.

Courtesy of PriorService.com, via Jack Treutle

For more photos and information about this ship, see:

Read the USS BATAAN (CVL-29 / AVT-4) DANFS History entry

The Bataan, World War II Cruise Log, courtesy of Chris Novak, Webmaster & Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Organization
(228 pages, 113 Mb)
Second Far East Cruise — 1952, courtesy of Chris Novak, Webmaster & Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Organization
(88 pages, 74.7 Mb)
Third Far East Cruise — 1952–53, courtesy of Chris Novak, Webmaster & Historian, USS Bataan CVL-29 Organization
(88 pages, 56.6 Mb)

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