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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Brassey's Inc, Washington, DC. 2003. 408 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. USS Ranger (CV-4) was the U. S. Navy's first aircraft carrier to be built as such from the keel up. The Ranger helped maintain the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration? S Good Neighbor Policy, served as a platform for the development of new methods for the operation of carriers and carrier aircraft, continued the Navy? S work in cold-weather flight operations, pioneered director-controlled antiaircraft fire, and trained many naval aviators. During World War II, the Ranger occupied center stage in Operation Torch (against the Vichy French positions in North Africa in 1942) and Operation Leader (against Ge; 11.2 X 8.9 X 1.3 inches; 408 pages.