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Description 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 Ranger´s distinctive stacks in the left foreground.
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Source 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)
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