[[Azur Lane]]'s personification of the US Navy light aircraft carrier USS [i]Independence[/i] (CVL-22). 
Character design by [[Atdan]], voiced by [[Yamazaki Haruka]].

h4. Appearance
In-game, she is depicted with [[long hair|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.

h4. History
In real life, she was originally built as the [[Cleveland (Azur Lane)|]]-class light cruiser USS [i]Amsterdam[/i] (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.

h4. Skins
* [[independence_(transfer_student_from_afar)_(azur_lane)|Transfer Student From Afar]]
* [[independence_(the_independent_line)_(azur_lane)|The Independent Line]]
* [[independence_(liberty_and_leisure)_(azur_lane)|Liberty and Leisure]]
* [[independence_(the_tailwind_of_opportunity)_(azur_lane)|The Tailwind of Opportunity]]

h4. [i]Independence[/i]-class light carriers
* [b]Independence[/b] (CVL-22)
* [[Princeton (azur lane)|]] (CVL-23)
* [[Langley II (Azur Lane)|Langley]] (CVL-27)
* [[Bataan (azur lane)|]] (CVL-29)
* [[San Jacinto (Azur Lane)|]] (CVL-30)

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: USS [i]Independence[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_(CVL-22)]
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