USS Ranger

The USS Ranger (CV-4) was the first ship of the United States Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier. Ranger was a relatively small ship, closer in size and displacement to the first United States aircraft carrier, USS Langley, than later ships. An island superstructure was not included in the original design, but was added after completion. Ranger was one of only three pre-war U.S. aircraft carriers to survive World War II, although unlike the others, she spent most of the war in non-combat roles.

Ranger in Days of Infamy
USS Ranger was one of several aircraft carriers the United States Navy deployed to Hawaii during the successful liberation of the islands from Japan in 1943.