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Air Group 4 (AG-4), stationed aboard USS Ranger (CV-4) until July 1944 contains extensive crew member accounts of actions and photographs; Commanders of USS Ranger (CV-4) on U-Boat.net; Commanders of USS Ranger (CV-4) on NavSource.org; USS Ranger (CV-4) refit information; Navy and Marine Corps Award Manual, NAVPERS 15,790 (REV. 1953) PART IV.
Crew: 2,461. The USS Ranger (CV-4) is the only aircraft carrier of its class and was host to 86 aircraft. Like many other aircraft carriers, the USS Ranger relied on other ships for the big guns ...
Ship Named Air Groups: On 1 July 1938 existing squadrons were assigned to five newly established "Air Groups" which were established to operate from USS Lexington (CV 2), USS Saratoga (CV 3), USS Ranger (CV 4), USS Yorktown (CV 5) and USS Enterprise (CV 6) (USS Enterprise was commissioned on 12 May 1938). The Air Groups were designated with the ...
Squadrons were redesignated to conform with the hull number of the Aircraft Carrier to which they were assigned: [19] CV 2, CV 3, CV 4 and CV 5 (USS Yorktown (CV-5) was commissioned on 30 Sep 1937). USS Langley (CV 1) had ceased operating as an Aircraft Carrier by October 1936 and had been converted to a seaplane tender Ship Named Air Groups [h ...
CV-3 Saratoga: Lexington: 16 November 1927 25 July 1946 18 years, 253 days Sunk as target ship near Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946 [15] [17] CV-4 Ranger: Ranger (lead ship) 4 June 1934 18 October 1946 12 years, 136 days Scrapped in 1947 [18] CV-5 Yorktown: Yorktown (lead ship) 30 September 1937 7 June 1942 4 years, 250 days
Established as Ranger Air Group on 1 July 1938 (squadrons operating from USS Ranger (CV-4) had been informally called "Ranger Air Group" beginning 17 Aug 1934 but the air group was not established as a unit until 1 July 1938), redesignated CVG-4 (1st use of the designation) on 3 Aug 1943, redesignated CVAG-1 on 15 Nov 1946, redesignated CVG-1 ...
USS Ranger (CV-4) USS Suwanee (CVE-27) USN Task Group 34.10 Southern Attack Group- Safi (Davidson) USN Air Group: USS Santee (CVE-29) RN Central Naval Task Force (Troubridge): Oran, Algeria; group shot down five Vichy D520 aircraft; HMS Furious (CV/47) HMS Biter (BAVG-3/D97) Air Squadron 800; HMS Dasher (BAVG-5/D37) Air Squadrons 804 and 891;
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.