USS Saratoga (CV-3)

Byron Bruce Newell was born on 29 November 1909 in Camp Hill, Alabama. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 5 June 1930. During the next decade he completed flight training and serv...

Update 9/22/2022(CLM): I wish to thank Johnston Hurst Shannon for permission to use the photo of LT.Hurst. Ensign E. W. Hurst, USN, was designated Naval Aviator #4150 in 1935. Graduated from U.S. N...

Born in France. Cremated and remains in Arlington National Cemetery. He was a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Torpedo Squadron 8 during the first part of World War II in the Pacific, attached to USS Sarat...

Lofton Henderson was born on May 24, 1903 in Lorain, Ohio. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1926. Prior to World War II, he served in China, and various Caribbean stations, and on ...

Frank Peak Akers was an American US Navy Rear Admiral who, among many other accomplishments, was the first aviator to make an instrument landing aboard an aircraft carrier. He was the navigator on b...