July 1945, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. Note that
movies were shown on the fantail nightly.
The 8 cylinders lying on their sides between the depth charge racks are part of
the
Smoke Generator. This was the preferred method of making smoke screens.
Smoke
could be made using the boiler fires but it contaminated the tubes and
necessitated
more cleaning. Radar made Smoke Screening useless. The
generators were removed
after the war.