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ORIGINAL: CT Grognard
Here's another beauty, the USS Alaska (CB-1), taken on 30 July 1944 in the Philadelphia Naval Yard, barely a month after she had been commissioned. She was built in Camden, NJ by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
I thought you were talking about the hat... It looks like she does have directors coming out of each side, and that COULD be a rangefinder mounted on the top. A two-tone paint scheme might break up the overwhelming pinkness....ORIGINAL: MateDow
The picture appears pre-completion, although she is commissioned. She doesn't have her directors fitted. There should be a rangefinder mounted on top of the bridge and the director on a pedestal just forward of the mast. Her top masts weren't fitted either.
I know that the US sometimes commissioned ships without all of its equipment. Some ships even ran trials without some of their guns.
It is definitely the Atlanta based on the two-tone paint scheme and the shape of the hull where it meets the main deck.
Here is a picture of Atlanta around the same time period, but with all of her top masts and directors fitted...
You can see the paint scheme and that "knuckle" at the main deck in that picture.
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