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Shipname: USS PRINCETON
Hull Number Designation: CVL-23
Ship Type: Light Aircraft Carrier
Ship Class: Independence
Commissioned: 02/25/1943
Displacement: 11000
sunk 24 October 1944
Alexander, Carl Llowellyn , 568969, AIRCO MARDET USS PRINCETON LPH-5 C/O FPO
Brustoski, Joseph John , 475613, MD,USS PRINCETON
Chisholm, Adrian Charles , 255703, MD, USS PRINCETON
Claypool, James Cooper , 465412, MD, USS PRINCETON
Conklin, Walter Kellar , 812801, MD, USS PRINCETON
Gentry, James Everett , 306476, MD, USS PRINCETON
Heumann, Carl Walter , 429408, MD, USS PRINCETON
Hollar, Frank Weldon , 846740, MD, USS PRINCETON
Jones, Terry Lee , 1861018, S&G CO MARDET USS PRINCETON LPH-5
Keilman, Maurice Frederick , 916548, MD, USS PRINCETON
Krall, Henry , 261920, MD, USS PRINCETON
Nolan, Ernest Laverne , 464736, MD, USS PRINCETON
Nulph, Harold Walker , 463315, MD, USS PRINCETON
Rattler, Mark Jack , 470562, MD, USS PRINCETON
Rutkowski, Frank Sylvester , 814250, MD, USS PRINCETON
Taylor, Sam L , 1409177, MD USS PRINCETON
Walker, Frank Eugene , 427882, MD, USS PRINCETON
Sources of this information on the USS PRINCETON comes from a variety of sources ranging from Jane's Fighting Ships to official US Naval (Department of the Navy) documents, navsource and US National Archives along with materials from sailors and donors to our collection. We wish to obtain material including but not limited to deck logs, cruise books, roster-muster rolls, photos, citations and technical operation and training materials. We are also looking for volunteers to help transribe roster muster rolls so that we can get this material into our searchable database.
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