USS Langley (CVL 27)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Light fleet carrier
Class	Independence
Pennant	CVL 27
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	11 Apr 1942
Launched	22 May 1943
Commissioned	31 Aug 1943
End service	11 Feb 1947
History	Decommissioned 11 February 1947. Transferred to France on 8 Jan 1951, renamed Lafayette (R-96) and commissioned into the French Navy on 2 June 1951. Returned to the U.S.N. in March 1963. Stricken 20 March 1963. Scrapped at Baltimore in 1964.
Former name	Crown Point (CL-85)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Capt. Wallace Myron Dillon, USN	15 Jul 1943	27 Sep 1944
2	T/Capt. John Fred Wegforth, USN	27 Sep 1944	10 Aug 1945
3	T/Capt. Herbert Edward Regan, USN	10 Aug 1945	15 Jan 1946

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