Rare USS Ranger (CV-4) Aircraft Carrier Action in the late 1930s 

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Tears in my eyes looking at this beautiful footage…Ed Weeden their shipmate off of Ranger, CV61!

My late grandfather served on Ranger during WW2. From photos of the time, she wore several schemes throughout her career. Measures 13, 12 Mod, 22, and 33. I still have a newspaper article about her erroneously reported second sinking at the hands of U-404.

Wow! Images of America's first keel-up designed aircraft carrier! Thanks for posting this!

My father was on a Casablanca Class Escort Carrier, CVE-70, called the Fanshaw Bay. He would be tickled if he was still with us today to see me watching this video. If any of you get the chance to look it up, and read about, it's interesting. He fought in Okinawa and Leyte Gulf. Their port was Hawaii. He never told anyone this until 1 summer, instead of being stuck going to Minnesota for our regular family vacation, my older sisters put me up to bugging dad for a trip to Hawaii. He told me, "I've already been in Hawaii. " Of course no one believed him . . . I said, "Prove it. " Daring for a 10 year old when you never knew when dad would suffer from PTSD. . . He dug out a photo of himself next to a palm tree, with some pink hotel in the background. It was real. Sigh. We all went to Minnesota that summer.😁

My father served on the USS Ranger (CV-4) in 1945 I believe it was. He would have loved to have seen this video but died in 2015. The only thing I have ever found on the Ranger while he was alive was a picture that I printed out and he kept it inside his baseball cap. He was so proud to have served.

My papa was an MP on the USS Ranger. He never talked about it and passed in 2019 so I’m trying to learn what I can. Thanks for the post!

You just keep digging up these great old films. What great history. Thanks.

TREMENDOUS find! Many many thanks.

Amazing footage!

The wood barriers at the front of the ships were wind fences to break up air flow over the deck. Just like fences to break up the wind to prevent snow drifts

This is terrific footage....if only it was in color! Thanks again.

Great video, thank you! When we will see the next part with more flying ops from Ranger?) It's always amazing to see carrier ops, especially landings!

When the USN was one to down to working carrier, rhe USS Enterprise, CV-6, in the Pacific, due to the Saratoga being hir by one Japanese torpedo, put "Old Sara" in drydock to patch the hole, plus modernize for rhe second time In '42 Old Sara was torpedoed iwice by Japanese subs, each only scored one hir but it was enough to put her in drydock, I mean no offense to the Ranger and her crew. But Ranger wasn't senr ro the Pacific for one huge reasn. She drdn't have a bulkhead between her boiler room and her engine room. All it would rake is one Japanese totpedo to complerely stop her and probably sink her. She was a treaty carrier if rhere ever was one, the USN had 14,000 tons left over so they built the Ranger. She was Amerika's first carrier bult straight up. The previous US carriers were converted from some else. Like the Lexington class which was rhe sister ship of the Saratoga, both convered from battle cruisers.. Ranger was rhe first US carrier bult from the ground up, and it was found she had major defincies. The USN learned from this and when the tonnage adjustments were, the US built the very rough Yorktown class. Though the design brass weren'r impressed. But the Yorktown (CV-5), rhe Enterprise (CV-6) and the Hornet CV-8) was completed just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Yes, when rhe Japanese attacked Pearl and other US, British, Dutch positions rhe last of the Hornit was on a shake down ctuise in rhe Atlantc when the war brokeout for rhe US. And rhe Japanese would learn jusr how much punishment a Yorktoewn class aircraft carrier could take, The Ranger did yoeman service in the Atlantic and at times did indeed do first class service The air ttack wirh the RN against German heavy water plants. You need heavy water to build an A-bomb. After carring out that mission with elan, Her entire crew deserved at least the Silver Star.

Were those all the SBUs on one ship? Strange. Thanks for posting. Neat details!

sold for scrap in 1947.