Career
Ordered:	20 Dec 1991
Laid down:	22 Jun 1994
Launched:	15 Mar 1996
Commissioned:	20 Sep 1997
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	40329 tons
Length:	844 ft (257 m)
Beam:	110 ft (34 m)
Draught:	27 ft
Propulsion:	Geared Steam Turbines
Speed:
Range:
Complement:	73 Officers, 1009 Enlisted (with Marines embarked)
Armament:
Aircraft:
Motto:	Courage, Commitment, Honor

USS Bataan (LHD-5) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship commissioned in 1997.

Dr. John White, Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense, delivered the principal address at the christening ceremonies of Bataan (LHD-5) at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi.

LHD 5 is named to honor the heroic defense of the Bataan Peninsula on the western side of Manila Bay in the Philippines during the early days of World War II. Ship's Sponsor, Linda Sloan Mundy, wife of former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr, christened the new ship "in the name of the United States and in honor of the heroic defenders of Bataan."

More than 100 members of veterans groups associated with the defense of Bataan and the subsequent infamous "Death March," the battle of Corregidor and the aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29) were at the christening ceremony.

Other US Navy ships named Bataan: USS Bataan (CVL-29).

External link

USS Bataan Homepage