In real life, she was originally built as the Cleveland-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, Essex, Bunker Hill, and her own sister ship Princeton.
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.
