Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - 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 karfi mai karfi don sauran yakin. Gwaninta masu saurin wuta sun kare masu sufurin daga hare-haren iska. "San Diego" ya halarci "Operation Flintlock", kama Majuro da Kwajalein, da kuma "Catchpole", mamayewar Eniwetok
, a 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".