Destroyers

USS Hoel (DD-533) August 30, 1944 is shown from the port side taken from USS Kwajalein (CVE-98). There is a pretty good match to the master pattern, except for the whaleboat. Hoel has been reported in Measure 31 but the lightest color here is clearly light gray so this is Measure 32. Notice that her bow hull number is painted in black. Hoel was lost on October 25, 1944 at Leyte.
Photo source: NARA 80-G-248122.

USS Hoel (DD-533) in an unidentified anchorage possibly Seeadler Harbor of Manus, in the Admiralty Islands probably early October 1944. There is the mast of another ship visible beyond Hoel. The square on the bow is a movie projection screen.
Photo source: NARA BS 126370.

Hoel is seen from the port bow taken probably in early October 1944.
Photo source: NARA BS 126377.