troop transport . On 13 July, the convoy arrived at Gibraltar, with the addition of , , and the destroyer . Omaha set sail for Palermo, Sicily, on 18 July, in company with the battleships and . Operation Dragoon On 7 August 1944, Omaha was guarding the flank of a formation consisting of the US heavy cruisers and , the battleship Nevada and the , bombarding Toulon, France. Omaha assisted in the bombardment firing 24 rounds. An enemy shore battery began firing on Omaha at 17:17, Quincy was able to lay a smoke screen out for her while she fired rockets in an attempt to jam their radar. Again on 20 August, while she was supporting Nevada, she once again drew fire from the enemy as she was departing from the area with the shells splashing off her stern and off of her port quarter. Shortly after, while she was at Porquerolles, France, Omaha responded to the net tender , that had come under fire from a German shore battery, by firing 73 6-inch rounds into the enemy position. Omaha departed the assault area on 27 August 1944, and returned to Palermo, before getting underway to Oran, Algeria, with Cincinnati, Marblehead, Quincy, and the destroyer . This group then sailed from Oran, on 1 September, after being joined by , for the Atlantic. When the formation exited the Mediterranean, Marblehead detached from the group and proceeded west independently. After Omaha returned to Bahia, 9 September, she once again resumed her previous duties of patrolling the southern Atlantic and providing escort services. A break in this routine occurred when she returned to the North Atlantic while escorting the transport in company with the Brazilian s and to Gibraltar. They reached their destination on 4 December, where Omaha handed her escort duty off to . She then proceeded by herself to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, where she arrived on 14 December, and put in the next day to the New York Navy Yard. Omaha ended 1944 in New York, while undergoing repairs and alterations that would improve the living spaces for her crew. Search for the Brazilian cruiser Bahia When the (C.12) was reported sunk by a submarine, Omaha set out from Recife, on 8 July 1945, on a search and rescue operation. A report came in from the British steamer Balfe that they had picked up 33 survivors from Bahia. Omaha