USS San Juan CL-54 (October 1944) - Measure 32/22D

This is SAN JUAN (CL-54) in October of 1944.  SAN JUAN left the Mare Island Navy Yard with Measure 32/22D camouflage. The design sheets for CL-54 specify the Measure 33 ("light pattern") colors, but photographic evidence shows that the yard painted CL-54 in the Measure 32 colors of Dull Black (BK), Ocean Grey (5-O), and Light Grey (5-L).  During this same Mare Island yard period, SAN JUAN received a small foremast platform to support the SC-2 air search radar, with an SG surface search antenna on a small fore topmast. A backup SG sits above the mainmast in the usual location for this class. SAN JUAN is almost identical to her surviving sister SAN DIEGO (CL-53), with the addition of two 40mm Bofors mounts amidships. 

SAN JUAN would finish the war in this configuration and scheme, to be decommissioned and placed into reserve in 1946.  CL-54 was ultimately scrapped in 1961.

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