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Sargo at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 24 Aug 1944	United States Navy Presidential Unit Citation awarded to escort carrier USS Bogue and all of her escorts and air squadrons for performance in six specific sorties of Bogue’s task group from 20 Apr 1943 to 24 Aug 1944.

USS Missouri resting at anchor in the Gulf of Paria off Port of Spain, Trinidad during her shakedown cruise, Aug 26, 1944. Note K-class airship overhead.	US Navy PT-199, a 78-foot Higgins motor torpedo boat, tied up with US Coast Guard 83-foot patrol boats along the waterfront at Cherbourg, France, 30 Aug 1944.

USS Cowpens (foreground, in camouflage Measure 33, Design 7a) and USS Independence (background, in camouflage Measure 32, Design 8a) in the Pacific Ocean sailing towards Palau, Caroline Islands, 31 Aug 1944	Enlisted personnel of Torpedo Squadron VT-27 in front of the scoreboard for USS Princeton (Independence-class), Western Pacific, late 1944.

LST-1 (right) and LST-292 high and dry on the beach at Saint-Michel-en-Greves in the Brittany region of France, Sep 1944	SB2C-1C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 2 has its landing gear tangled in the arresting cables after a landing on USS Hornet (Essex-class), Mar-Sep 1944.

Sketch of an 80-foot PT-Boat in the set up used for Mediterranean service; note the fewer guns, aft positioning of the torpedoes, and the lack of rocket launchers or depth charge racks compared to Pacific boats.	The carrier Franklin underway in the Pacific, 1944.

US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo trucks unloading supplies from US Navy LSTs in Marseille, France, Sep 1944	USS ABSD-1 with four LST transports in the dock, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, date unknown; seen in Oct 1971 issue of US Navy publication All Hands

USS ABSD-1 with USS California in the dock, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, circa 1944; seen in Oct 1971 issue of US Navy publication All Hands	USS Escolar at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Sep 1944

USS North Carolina underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, Sep 1944	USS North Carolina underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, Sep 1944

USS Ranger at anchor in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, late 1944.	USS Yorktown underway, Sep 1944; note Measure 33/10A camouflage

Captain Carlos Wieber bids welcome to the Ruler of the Raging Main, Neptunus Rex, and his Court aboard USS Essex for the Line Crossing ceremony, 1 Sep 1944	Line Crossing ceremony aboard USS Essex, 1 Sep 1944