USS Ranger CV-4 Post WWII

[Jack Cook]

Courtesy of Mark aka Hellcat..............

USS Ranger CV-4 1945 with 4 Bearcats and 1 TBM onboard

Last edited by Jack Cook on Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[TAdan]

Very nice picture The stacks on the side of the deck are pretty interesting.

[Shay]

Great picture of the Ranger shortly before her eventual decommisioning.

For accuracy purposes The USS Ranger was CV-4. CV-5 was the USS Yorktown which as you know was lost as the battle of Midway.

Shay
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Semper Fortis

[Jack Cook]

The USS Ranger was CV-4

[noizeedave]

So Im not clear, was CV-4 the Ranger? or the Yorktown

[Matt Gunsch]

USS Yorktown, the ship for which the class was named was CV-5, and lost at the Battle of Midway.
It's replacment was a Essex class carrier that was laid down as CV-10 Bon Homme Richard, but renamed as Yorktown after CV-5 was lost.

[cozmo]

Thank you and thank Hellcat too.

There just aren't a lot of pictures of the Ranger, or the Langley (at least after her conversion to seaplane tender), out there.

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

This has to be one of the best shots of the Ranger CV-4 That I have ever seen.

Thanks Jack!

[Jack Cook]

Not only that, but with the Bearcats on the deck make it extra cool

[mustangdriver]

How well do you guys think the Bearcat would have done in combat in WWII? Just wondering.

[dred]

Hadn't seen those stacks before. I'm sort of surprised they weren't changed during the war.

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

Hadn't seen those stacks before. I'm sort of surprised they weren't changed during the war.

Moved 90 degrees during flight ops.

Here is a link to a picture with them down.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/020404.jpg



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[dred]

Interesting, thanks!

[Shay]

How well do you guys think the Bearcat would have done in combat in WWII?

Quite well I imagine:

Compared to its predecessor (Hellcat), the Bearcat was 20% lighter, had a 30% better rate of climb and was 50 mph (80 km/h) faster. It was also considerably smaller in size, as it was designed to be operated from small escort aircraft carriers, something the big Hellcat rarely did.

Not to mention more heavily armed when equiped with 4 x 20mm cannons



Dated April 1944 this is a neat shot of Ranger's stacks and aft flight deck ferrying P-38s bound for Casablanca.





Shay
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Semper Fortis

[Owen Miller]

Chris, about the Bearcat and combat.....

I once had a conversation with Bud Mahurin about
the F8F. He said he engaged on mock combat with
one while flying a P-47M. He felt like he was mired
on the middle floor of a skyscraper watching the
elevator go up and down. I've always thought that
was pretty eloquent......

Grummans forever.....!!!!!