Keywords: USS Ranger (CV-4) flight deck Torch.jpg A U S Navy Gleaves-class destroyer passing aft of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger CV-4 off North Africa on 8 November 1942 The Air Group Screen was composed of the light cruiser USS Cleveland CL-35 and Detroyer Division 10 consisting of USS Ellyson DD-454 USS Forrest DD-461 USS Fitch DD-462 USS Corry DD-463 and USS Hobson DD-464 Nine Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters and five Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers are visible on the flight deck Note RangerĀ“s distinctive stacks in the left foreground Scan from Samuel Eliot Morison History of United STates Naval Operations in Wolrd War II Volume II Operations in North African Waters October 1942-June 1943 Illustrations between p 138 and 139 Now in the U S Library of Congress LOC image fsa 8e01526 see other versions 1942-11-08 USN LOC image File USS Ranger CV-4 with destroyer off North Africa jpg PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Ranger CV-4 Gleaves class destroyers Operation Torch Grumman F4F Wildcat Douglas SBD Dauntless |