independence_(azur_lane)
Azur Lane's personification of the US Navy light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22).
Character design by Atdan, voiced by Yamazaki Haruka.
Appearance
In-game, she is depicted with long brown hair tied in a low ponytail, with red eyes. She wears a sleeveless grey jacket, black skirt, blue coat, red gloves, tricolor (mostly blue) thighhighs, and red rudder footwear.She is also shown holding a large bow (weapon) and a quiver, with her real-life bridge, crane, and spliced flight deck integral with the bow.
History
In real life, she was originally built as the Cleveland (Azur Lane)-class light cruiser USS Amsterdam (CL-59), she was ordered converted into a light carrier in the first half of 1942 amid the urgency for carriers in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Commissioned in early January 1943, her first combat stint was a large airstrike on Rabaul in November aided by Saratoga (Azur Lane), Essex (Azur Lane), Bunker Hill (Azur Lane), and her own sister ship Princeton (Azur Lane).Seeing service in Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, she was decommissioned in mid-1946 after being subjected to nuclear tests in Operation Crossroads alongside Saratoga. Highly radioactive, she was finally scuttled in 1951 off California.
Skins
Independence-class light carriers
- Independence (CVL-22)
- Princeton (azur lane) (CVL-23)
- Langley (CVL-27)
- Bataan (azur lane) (CVL-29)
- San Jacinto (Azur Lane) (CVL-30)
Cleveland-class light cruisers
- Cleveland (Azur Lane) (CL-55)
- Columbia (Azur Lane) (CL-56)
- Montpelier (Azur Lane) (CL-57)
- Denver (Azur Lane) (CL-58)
- Birmingham (Azur Lane) (CL-62)
- Biloxi (azur lane) (CL-80)
- Houston (CL-81)