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The seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) was the third of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four ships of the class were completed with angled decks , Ranger had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the beginning as an angled-deck ship.
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During this deployment the squadron participated in air strikes during Operation Linebacker II and saw action over South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam. In May 1974 the squadron returned to WESTPAC as part of the Carrier Air Wing 2/USS Ranger team. VA-113 continued this association for the next eight years, completing four more ...
The F9F-8s were replaced by the North American FJ-3 Fury in 1957 and the squadron made a Western Pacific cruise aboard USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) between September 1957 and April 1958. In 1959 VF-91 transitioned to the Vought F-8C Crusader and made three deployments aboard USS Ranger between 1960 and 1963.
USS Ranger CV-61; USS Horne CG-30; USS Valley Forge CG-50; USS Princeton CG-59; USS Paul F. Foster DD-964; USS Harry W. Hill DD-986; USS Jarrett FFG-33; USS Francis Hammond FF-1067; USS Ranger had a very different air wing compared to most carriers in the Gulf War as it was in the 'Grumman Air Wing' format. This meant it didn't have the F/A-18 ...
During this deployment VF-783 lost 4 F4U-4s. [2] VF-142 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 14 (CVG-14) aboard USS Randolph for a Mediterranean deployment from 3 February to 6 August 1954. VF-142 was assigned to CVG-14 aboard USS Ranger for a deployment to the Western Pacific from 3 January to 27 July 1959.
VF-1 left Enterprise after this deployment, when the carrier entered her mid-life conversion in January 1979. F-14A Tomcats from VF-1 in the 1970s. In September 1980, both VF-1 and VF-2 were reassigned to CVW-2. The air wing stayed aboard USS Ranger for two deployments before being reassigned to USS Kitty Hawk for one cruise. In 1984, VF-1 had ...
From July to August 1983, USS Ranger was ordered to operate off the coast of Nicaragua in response to an unstable situation in Central America. Then, from October 1983 to January 1984, during a 122-day line period in the Indian Ocean, USS Ranger was extended on station in the Arabian Sea due to the Iranian threat to block oil exports from the ...