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with brief accounts of some of the old trading posts that sold them

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On-the-scene eye witness accounts provide a unique perspective of this fascinating aspect of the Tomcat story

USS Saratoga (CV-3) Quilting and all the revisions inOriginally laid down as one of six giant battle cruisers, the Saratoga survived the 1922 Washington Disarmament Treaty's cutting torch through her conversion to a new and seemingly benign type of vessel the aircraft carrier. She reported for fduty off Long Beach, CA in 1927 and for the next twelve years trained the men who would eventually fight World War II. One of only three carriers on duty at the outset of World War II, Saratoga, at one point, was