USS New Jersey (BB-62) at sea with the Pacific Fleet, 1944-45. 

USS New Jersey 

This crowd at Los Angles Union Station looks on joyfully as this Gunners Mate, oblivious of spectators, gets a colossal Hollywood embrace from his wife on his return home.

HOME AGAIN

Third Fleet aircraft carriers at anchor in Ulithi Atoll, 8 December 1944, during a break from operations in the Philippines area.
The carriers are (from front to back): USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Ticonderoga (CV-14).
Wasp, Yorktown and Ticonderoga are all painted in camouflage Measure 33, Design 10a.
Photographed from a USS Ticonderoga plane.