USS Bataan explained

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Bataan, after the Bataan Peninsula, the scene of the Battle of Bataan in 1942 in the Philippines.

• , was a light aircraft carrier that served in both World War II and the Korean War.
• , is an amphibious assault ship commissioned in 1997 and currently on active service.

See also

• - Australian destroyer named to commemorate the same action