Using an experimental high-frequency direction finding system, Ranger had by this time located Enterprise to the northwest of Puerto Rico. Between 0845 and 1040 Ranger aircraft subjected Enterprise to a series of bomb and torpedo attacks that overwhelmed her meager fighter defenses, “sinking” her.
- To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940 by Albert Nofi pp. 273-274