Charger's area of operations
throughout the war was Chesapeake Bay, and her duty the basic task of
training pilots and ships' crews in carrier operations. Men trained on
her decks played an important role in the successful contest for the
Atlantic with hostile submarines carried out by the escort carrier
groups. Reclassified ACV-30 on 20 August 1942, and CVE-30 on 15 July
1943, Charger left Chesapeake Bay for two ferry voyages, one to Bermuda
in October 1942, and one to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in September 1945. |