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...Biggest vessels ever built in the U. S. are the Navy's aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each weighing 33,000 tons...
...possibility of warding off such an attack by a lighter, more mobile defending force. The Blue attackers, under the command of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander of the Battle Forces, consisted of nine battleships, four light cruisers, 23 destroyers, one mine layer, four light mine layers, aircraft carrier Saratoga ("Sister Sara"), 104 planes, 18 auxiliary craft representing 30 troopships. The Black defenders, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard of the Scouting Force, numbered eleven cruisers (including seven of the new "Treaty" 10,000-tonners), 28 destroyers, five V-type heavy submarines, 15 smaller underseacraft, four minesweepers, aircraft carriers Lexington...
...main body of Admiral Leigh's command. In that he failed to do this in seven days, at which time Admiral Frank Herman Schofield. commander of the Fleet, called off hostilities, Admiral Willard "lost" the war game. But even after the tactical discussion of the affray aboard the Saratoga this week, when a report will be drafted for the Navy Department, no layman will ever know who won, who lost. The Navy prefers to consider that neither side loses or wins a maneuver, but that all hands gain experience...
...naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together in a guarded block. Theoretically 25 troop transports accompanied the armada, carrying a command of 40.000 men under Major General Malin Craig. Actual personnel of this Blue fleet, about to engage with...
...that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive at a target (shown three times); a plane landing on the deck of the U. S. S. Saratoga as seen by a camera attached to the underpart of the plane; target practice in which airplane gunners fire at three blimps with cameras mounted on their guns. The plot which ties these and similar ups-&-downs together is familiar but ingratiating. It has to do with two airplane gunners?...