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Carrier USS Ticonderoga conducting flight operations during her shakedown cruise while en route Trinidad, 30 Jun 1944. Note landing F6F Hellcat and two Coast Guard escort boats. Photo 2 of 2.	Cruiser USS Portland as seen off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California after overhaul, 30 Jul 1944. She is painted in Measure 32, Design 7D. Photo 1 of 2

Cruiser USS Portland as seen off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California after overhaul, 30 Jul 1944. She is painted in Measure 32, Design 7D. Photo 2 of 2	USS New Mexico's 14-inch projectiles on starboard deck forward while being replenished at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands 30 Jun 1944 prior to the invasion of Guam

USS North Carolina off Saipan, Mariana Islands, mid- to late-Jun 1944	1944 plan for camouflage Measure 33, Design 4Ab for USS Enterprise fleet carrier.

Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting the Presidential Unit Citation pennant to USS Bowfin commanding officer Commander John Corbus at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jul 1944.	Columns of troop-packed American LCI landing craft in the wake of a USCG-manned LST en route to Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, mid-1944

Corsair fighters and Barracuda torpedo bombers aboard HMS Formidable, in the Atlantic Ocean off Norway, Jul 1944	Crew of battleship Missouri performing abandon ship drills, summer 1944; note OS2N-1 Kingfisher aircraft in background on port side catapult

Cruiser USS Nashville in floating drydock ABSD-1 at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides late Jun 1944. Nashville was having hull damage repaired after a close bomb near-miss in the Bismarck Sea on 4 Jun 1944.	Cruiser USS Nashville shortly after her repairs at Espiritu Santo, Jul 1944. Note the OS2U Kingfisher float planes on her catapults and her new Measure 33, Design 21D paint scheme.

DUKWs awaiting supplies from a Victory Ship, 1944-1945	Escort carrier USS Ommaney Bay steaming off Hawaii, Jul 1944. Note the Measure 33, Design 15A dazzle paint scheme.

German and Italian prisoners of war from the Normandy campaign en route Britain on the battleship USS Texas, Jun 1944. Some are sitting due to seasickness. Note guard holding a Reising M50 submachinegun.	HMS Rodney and other warships off the coast of Normandie off Caen, France, Jun-Jul 1944

Looking aft from the signal bridge of USS Lexington (Essex-class) with 40mm Bofors mount and two 5-inch/38 mounts as F6F Hellcat approaches for a landing, Jun 1944	M4 Sherman tanks being unloaded from USCG-manned LST-67 and LST-66, Noemfoor, New Guinea, Jul 1944; note leading tank with bulldozer blade and Jeep at right

SB2C-1 Helldiver bombers returning to USS Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10), early Jul 1944	The captain’s compartment aboard the captured German Type IXC submarine U-505, Jun 1944.