Based first at San Diego ( where she was used in the filming of Dive Bomber , starring Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray ) and then at Pearl Harbor after President Roosevelt ordered the Fleet to be `` forward based , '' the carrier and her aircraft squadrons trained intensively and transported aircraft among the island bases of the Pacific .
She was first based in San Diego ( where she was used in the movie Dive Bomber ) and then at Pearl Harbor after President Roosevelt ordered the Fleet to be based far forward .