USS Buffalo (CL-99)

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The USS Buffalo (CL-99) was to have been a Cleveland class light cruiser, but the ship was actually completed as the light carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29). Her production demonstrates the long term nature of the American ship building programme adopted after Pearl Harbor – the name was allocated to a planned cruiser on 28 December 1940, but the hull of the resulting carrier wasn't laid down until 31 August 1942, a year and a half later. By that point she had been renamed, while the CV-29 designation was allocated on 29 June 1942. The name Buffalo was reallocated to the later Cleveland class cruiser CL-110, but that ship was cancelled at the end of the war, before any work had been carried out.

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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (16 July 2009), USS Buffalo (CL-99) , http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_USS_Buffalo_CL99.html

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