The film premiered on Armistice Day (Nov. 11) of 1952 in the harbor of San Diego (CA) aboard the USS Princeton, on which the film was mostly shot.
Much of the film was shot aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier Princeton, whose hull number (CVA-37, later CVA-27, CVS-37 and LPH-5) can be clearly seen. The Princeton was a 27,100-ton Ticonderoga-class carrier that was commissioned in November 1945 and decommissioned in June 1949, due to US Defense Department budget cuts, but was later recommissioned for service during the Korean War. She was finally decommissioned, taken apart and sold for scrap in May 1971. It was built at the Philadelphia (PA) Navy Yard in 1945 and was posted to the Atlantic Ocean until June 1946, when she was deployed to the Pacific Theatre of War.
This film utilized real newsreel footage edited into the movie.
This movie's opening prologue states: "We desire to express grateful appreciation to the Department of the United States Navy for the cooperation which was extended on the production of this picture. We especially salute the men and officers of the USS Princeton on whose ship many of the sequences were filmed."
Richard Carlson (Lt. (j.g.) Joe Rodgers) was in fact a Navy Pilot during WWII.