Daily Event for October 18



October 18, 1942 the USS Princeton CV-23 was launched at New York Shipbuilding Corp. in Camden, NJ.
A little over two years later on Oct. 24, 1944, the USS Princeton was sunk at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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