Allied Warships

USS Independence (CVL 22)

Light fleet carrier of the Independence class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Light fleet carrier
Class	Independence
Pennant	CVL 22
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	1 May 1941
Launched	22 Aug 1942
Commissioned	14 Jan 1943
End service	28 Aug 1946
Loss position

History	Used as a target ship for the Operation Crossroads atom bomb tests in July 1946. Survived the first bomb test but during the second test the flight deck collapsed Decommissioned on 28 August 1946. The ship was employed as a radiation research hulk for several years, and was docked at San Francisco. Finally sunk as a target on 30 January 1951. Stricken 27 February 1951.
Former name	Amsterdam (CL-59)

Commands listed for USS Independence (CVL 22)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Capt. George Remington Fairlamb, Jr., USN	14 Jan 1943	27 Sep 1943
2	Rudolph Lincoln Johnson, USN	27 Sep 1943	26 Jul 1944
3	Capt. Edward Coyle Ewen, USN	26 Jul 1944	6 Mar 1945
4	Nolan Martin Kindell, USN	6 Mar 1945	28 Aug 1946

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