TRUMPETER 1/350 USS CV-4 RANGER AIRCRAFT CARRIER KIT 05629

Description

1:350 U.S.S. RANGER CV-4
ATLANTIC AIRCRAFT CARRIER
from Trumpeter
In Stock: Ships in 24 Hours
Trumpeter's U.S.S. RANGER features
Kit has single piece full hull,
highly detailed (flight deck, hangar deck and superstructure),
full weapons suite (8 × 5 in (127 mm)/25 cal anti-aircraft guns,
40 × .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns),
ships crane, life rafts and ships boats,
deck fittings,
extensive photoetch (railings, inclined and vertical ladders,
mast, antenna and additional fine accents),
aircraft catapult
name plate and display stand.
Included
1/350
aircraft SBD-3 (x5), TBF-1 (x5), F6F-3 (x5)
Completed model is approximately 25" long.
Fossileyes Factoids;
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 US carrier—Langley—than later ships. An island superstructure was not included in the original design, but was added after completion. Deemed too slow for use with the Pacific Fleet's carrier task forces against Japan, the ship spent most of World War II in the Atlantic Ocean where the German fleet was a weaker opponent. Ranger saw combat in that theatre and provided air support for Operation Torch. In October 1943, she fought in Operation Leader, air attacks on German shipping off Norway.