High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bataan (CVL-29/AVT-4), originally planned as USS Buffalo (CL-99) and also classified as CV-29, was an 11,000 ton Independence class light aircraft carrier which was commissioned in the United States Navy during World War II. Buffalo (CL-99) was reclassified CV-29 and renamed Bataan on 2 June 1942, reclassified CVL-29 on 15 July 1943; launched on 1 August 1943 at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. George D. Murray, wife of Rear Admiral Murray; and commissioned on 17 November 1943, with Captain V. H. Schaeffer in command