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USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 6 Oct 1944.	USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 6 Oct 1944.	USS North Carolina and destroyer-minelayer USS Lindsey conducting high-speed fueling position-keeping exercises off the California coast, 8 Oct 1944.	Canberra operating with Task Force 38, Western Pacific, 10 Oct 1944; note camouflage Design 18a in the Measure 31-32-33 series

Carrier Katsuragi during her trials off Kagoshima, Japan, Oct 1944	F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Langley, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 10 Oct 1944	Hull underway off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States, 10 Oct 1944; note US Navy camouflage Measure 31, Design 6d	Ordinancemen load .50 caliber ammunition into the wing mounts of an F6F Hellcat while the wings are folded aboard the USS Enterprise southeast of Okinawa, 10 Oct 1944.

TBM Avenger of Torpedo Squadron VT-20 just after landing aboard USS Enterprise off Okinawa, 10 Oct 1944.	USS Lexington (Essex-class) flight deck personnel spotting one F6F-5 Hellcat that has just landed as next one taxis forward and next one is about to land, all returning from raids on the Ryukyu Islands, 10 Oct 1944	Crewmen of USS Hancock preparing FFAR rockets for an aircraft strike against Japanese positions on Taiwan island, 12 Oct 1944. The Hancock air group fired 176 rockets on this date.	TBM Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-19 on the flight deck of USS Lexington (Essex-class) being readied for a strike against targets on Formosa (Taiwan), 12 Oct 1944.

USS ABSD-2 with USS Mississippi in the dock, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 12 Oct 1944	An SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 flying over USS Hancock off Formosa (Taiwan), 13 Oct 1944	Cruiser San Francisco off Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 13 Oct 1944; note camouflage Measure 33, Design 13d	Flight deck crews of USS Wasp preparing a plywood-shrouded Mark XIII torpedo for a TBM Avenger aircraft for strikes in Taiwan-Philippine area, 13 Oct 1944; note TBM-1C Avenger and F6F-5 Hellcat

A Japanese aircraft crashing near USS Princeton off Taiwan, 14 Oct 1944; note South Dakota-class battleship USS South Dakota or USS Alabama in background	Flight deck crew of USS Langley ducking as a Japanese aircraft attacked the carrier (seen in center of photo), off Taiwan, 14 Oct 1944	Japanese B6N aircraft releasing a torpedo in waters between Taiwan and Philippine Islands, 14 Oct 1944; USS Alabama and a destroyer in background; photo taken from USS Essex	The launching party for Liberty Ship SS Harriet Tubman, 3 Jun 1944