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Cruiser USS St Louis bombarding Guam, Mariana Islands, 21 Jul 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 2C paint scheme; only St Louis and Honolulu were painted this way.	Pennsylvania bombarding Guam with her 14-in and 5-in guns, 21 Jul 1944	Carrier USS Ranger as seen from destroyer USS DeHaven as they steamed from the Panama Canal toward San Diego, California, 22 Jul 1944. Note the life rafts stacked in bundles of three.	Carrier USS Ranger in her Measure 33, Design 1a paint scheme as seen from destroyer USS DeHaven as they steamed from the Panama Canal toward San Diego, California, 22 Jul 1944.

USS Astoria underway en route to Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 22 Jul 1944; note camouflage Measure 33 Design 24d	LVT-2 Water Buffalo carrying US Marines, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 24 Jul 1944	Douglas MacArthur, Franklin Roosevelt, and Chester Nimitz aboard USS Baltimore, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 26 Jul 1944, photo 1 of 2	Douglas MacArthur, Franklin Roosevelt, and Chester Nimitz aboard USS Baltimore, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 26 Jul 1944, photo 2 of 2

Americans landing on Tinian, Mariana Islands, late Jul 1944	Alaska off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 30 Jul 1944, photo 1 of 2	Alaska off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 30 Jul 1944, photo 2 of 2	Battleship USS Missouri at anchor in Gravesend Bay, New York, United States, 30 Jul 1944. Note Measure 32, Design 22D paint scheme.

Allied soldiers and vehicles waited to be loaded prior to a practice landing, possibly for the invasion of Southern France, held near Mondragone, Italy, 31 Jul 1944	Alaska during shakedown, off the US east coast, Aug 1944	Alaska in the Hampton Roads area, Virginia, circa summer or fall 1944	Alaska maneuvered in front of Missouri during their shakedown cruises, circa Aug 1944

Alaska, seen from battleship Missouri, summer 1944	Barracuda aircraft landing on HMS Formidable after attacking Tirpitz, Norwegian Sea, Aug 1944	Barracuda and Corsair aircraft aboard HMS Formidable in the Norwegian Sea, Aug 1944; note HMS Berwick in background	Battleship Missouri firing a salvo during her shakedown period, Aug 1944