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.
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.
Edward A. Lynch filed a suit in a U.S. Federal Court against Warner Bros/First National Pictures in 1940. Lynch asked for $100,000, claiming that his book, "When Homer Comes Marching Home," was plagiarized by the Warner production, "Son of a Sailor," which starred Joe E. Brown. Trial opened on Thursday, February 15, with Federal Judge Clraence G. Galston presiding.
According to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, the U.S. Navy supplied 1,000 sailors as extras for this film.
At the beginning of the film, inside Handsome's locker, are pictures of Warner Brothers contract stars, two of which are Bette Davis (upper left) and Joan Blondell (lower right).
Handsome's rating is Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class, and by the three stripes below on his sleeve has been in the Navy for at least twelve years.