Independence Class Carrier CVL-22 – CVL-30
The Independence-class aircraft carriers were a class of light carriers built for the United States Navy that served during World War II.
Adapted from the design for the Cleveland-class light cruisers, this class of ship resulted from the interest of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in naval air power. With war looming, the former Assistant Secretary of the Navy noted no new fleet aircraft carriers were expected to be completed before 1944. He proposed to convert some of the many cruisers then under construction to carriers. Studies of cruiser-size aircraft carriers had shown the type had serious limitations, and on 13 October 1941, the General Board of the United States Navy replied that such a conversion showed too many compromises to be effective.
Undeterred, President Roosevelt ordered another study. On 25 October 1941, the Navy's Bureau of Ships reported that aircraft carriers converted from cruiser hulls would be of lesser capability, but available much sooner. After the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the need for more carriers became urgent. The Navy accelerated construction of the 34,000-ton Essex-class aircraft carriers, but these large ships could not be finished quickly. So in January 1942, the Navy also ordered that a Cleveland-class light cruiser then under construction be completed instead as a light aircraft carrier. It became USS Belleau Wood, the first ship of the Independence class.
Ships within the first package :
WWII Ships
CVL-22 Independence
CVL-23 Princeton
CVL-24 Belleau Wood
CVL-25 Cowpens
CVL-26 Monterey
CVL-27 Langley
CVL-28 Cabot
CVL-29 Bataan
CVL-30 San Jacinto
From the 1950s
CVL-26 Monterey
CVL-28 Cabot
CVL-29 Bataan
Special thanks: I use the carrier from maxromash, (Sketchfab ), under licence Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) with different changes I did to this ships.
Mr Bing Chandler (Skippy) from flyingstations.com for his permission to use his barrier and the gauge from his very nice Victorius Early War carriers
I used other freeware models for this too. Most aircraft models are original from CFS2 and converted to FSX.
Surely all models i use are freeware. So please don`t use all the elements of this models in other way as freeware without the permission of the designers.
I hope you will enjoy these models.
Klaus Nowak (aka klnowak in Sim Outhouse)
Oktober 2019
klnowak@web.de
