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USS Amsterdam
USS Amsterdam was to have been the name of the light cruiser numbered CL-59, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy completed the ship as the light aircraft carrier[?] Independence (CVL-22).
The light cruiser Amsterdam (CL-101) was commissioned in 1945 and briefly participated in the final campaign against Japan, then was decomissioned in 1947.
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