Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ta shiga Mataimakin Admiral Marc Mitscher's Fast Carrier Task Force a Pearl Harbor a watan Janairun 1944 kuma ya zama muhimmin bangare na wannan babbar rundunar har zuwa karshen yakin. Gwaninta masu saurin wuta sun kare masu sufurin daga hare-haren iska. "San Diego" ya shiga cikin "Operation Flintlock", kama Majuro da Kwajalein, da kuma "Catchpole",
mamayewar Eniwetok, a cikin tsibirin Marshall daga 31 ga Janairu zuwa 4 ga Maris. A wannan lokacin, Task Force 58 (TF 58) ya kai hari kan Truk, sansanin sojan ruwan Japan da aka sani da "Gibraltar na Pacific".