Son of a Sailor

Scenes of flight deck musters of the ships' company were filmed aboard the USS Saratoga (CV-3) during a joint exercise with the Army and the Navy simulating a carrier attack on Hawaii in January 1933.

During the exercise Saratoga and her sister ship Lexington successfully attacked Pearl Harbor at dawn on January 31, 1933 without being detected, almost nine years before the actual attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941.

The USS Saratoga was commissioned in 1927 and served throughout WWII earning eight battle stars. She was sunk by an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946.