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piitft' X., E w ll? ' rf ' Q 1 ' f. .1 I 'f QUT' -, .it ft 7235755 -, '5 s4 .- . !'v'.t'f'i, . .5 .syf f ' iss. ,, -514 .r 4 i '!. .qui I . . rw 1'g 2.95 uv 'Sf fllffl, exel secogfillmg .9 ta W H H' ,.,,... -0 flu, Utd -f , f Rf. rn, A I sf! iv FGRWARD More than a year has passed since RANGER ioined the Pacific Fleet. Once again she has taken her station in the Far East as the maior unit in the sea-air power which keeps the Pacific free. Already she has set a standard of accomplishment that will be hard to equal . . . Her record in the operation of her aircraft is unsurpassed. Her conduct and ap- pearance in every port has created a fine image in foreign eyes of the America she represents. RANGER men have made many warm friendships with our friends abroad, both aboard ship and ashore. All of these things stem from their devotion to their ship and country. Nearly four thousand airmen, sailors and Marines --veterans of many cruises and youngsters on their first -- have each made their contribution. Not once but many times they have faced danger, and fatigue, and monotony, and always each man has given the best that is in him. Yet it has not all been work, and these pages may also give a taste of the warm comradeship aboard RANGER and the new and varied experiences ashore which enrich Navy life. Many of you who read .his book have a son or a husband, a brother or a dear friend who made this Cruise. We hope that its pages will help you share and enioy his Navy life with him. Most of all, we hope you will sharf -tfith him the pride with which he can say in future years -- I served in RANGER. NOEL GAYLER Q-NE' A
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if f Cn fhaf day in 7777 when the Congress of fhe Unifed Sfafes approved a nafional Hag of 73 sfars and 73 sfripes, a young Naval Capfain, born on fhe Scoffish Low- lands, was appoinfed by The Congress fo command fhe newly consfrucfed sloop-of- war, RANGER. John Paul Jones' command carried 18 guns, weighed 318 fons and measured 97 feef in lengfh. The original RANGER, named affer a Porfsmoufh, New Hampshire, milifia group called Roger's Rangers, was builf, ouffiffed and manned by a Porfsmoufh crew of 150 men. ln November of 1777, wifh a sfrong norfhwesf wind blowing, RANGER leff her New Hampshire anchorage and sailed Easf for her now famous expedifions against fhe Brifish, a new name had been infroduced fo Unifed Sfafes seapower. The fourfh RANGER, a fhree masfed boasfed unreliable and unpredicfable auxiliary sfeam poweri Q Buf, by fhe early 7900's fhe fransifion from sail fo sfea 0 ml -'fr , iron hulled gunboaf was complefe and RANGER of fhaf era, fhe sixfh, exem A 'V plified fhe new concepf in sea power. Recognizing fl., :sg pofenfials of fhe fragile World War I aircraff, fhe i'avy lm began a period of experimenfafion resulfing in fhe 1 A RANGER, CV-4, fhe firsf carrier I hull iup. As Naval demands have changed fhrougho. designed as such r P g years, so have fhe ships changed fo meef fhe rw' -1, 0. .,,,p .cu ,,' -w-IenQ9S- American seapower has progressed drafr-ygmgg.. A 'I I . from an 78 gun sloop in 7777 fo fhe orig., N' Rs?-AXA' 'ivy , A Smodern counferparf, a 60,000 fon super carrim- A of operafing more fhan 700 aircraff for the gi I fa ERN' I P- mainfaining our freedom of fhe seas. g . 3 1,
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