In 1942, after the pounding the U.S. Navy had taken at the hands of the Japanese Navy, the escort carrier USS Suwannee, along with her sister ship, the USS Chenango, were both attached to the Ranger Task Force, in order to give the US Pacific Fleet more naval air power. Although painfully slow and lacking the fire power of a proper fleet carrier, the Suwannee's small compliment of aircraft still added much needed carrier planes to the battle.