USS Langley. the first United States Navy Aircraft Carrier. Converted from a naval Fleet Collier USS Jupiter. (USS Jupiter had in her history in the 1914 Mexico crisis, transporting 300 Marines). Nearly all the features on USS Langley were experimental including the arrester gear.  Unfortunately she was very slow. She was converted at mare Island Navy Yard and completed in March 1922. She was converted to a aircraft tender in 1937. and during world war two during February 1942 she was hit  off Java 5 times by 9  Japanese low level bombers. whilst carrying 32 p40 fighters.  badly damaged she was eventually sunk by her own escorting destroyer Whipple. during the action a total of 16 of her crew were killed.

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TY BLAIR..  hi, i'm helping my friend, Laura Seltzer, research her grandfather.  he was on the USS Langley from the mid-1930s to early 40s, and he was from Georgia but grew up mostly in Chattanooga, TN.  anyone have any suggestions on a course of research for her?  

USS Langley II, Leyte Gulf 1944 by Mark Churms.

Independence Class light carriers in action on the Sibuyan Sea at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 24th 1944. USS Princeton CVL-23 burns furiously from Japanese bombs as the USS Langley CVL-27, successor to United States Navys very first aircraft carrier of the same name, launches another Hellcat on CAP (Combat Air Patrol)

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