Separate light carriers could replace Ranger and Wasp with more Yorktowns

Ranger and Wasp would sit awkwardly in a force structure with a separate allowance for small carriers. They would be too large for the proposed light-carrier category, while smaller scouting carriers would already supply some of the numbers the US Navy needed. Their construction effort and tonnage could instead go toward another Yorktown. As the treaty system broke down and war approached, the scenario also considers a fifth Yorktown. The resulting fleet would combine the two Lexington conversions with four or five Yorktowns and a group of smaller scouting carriers.