A battleship maneuvers ahead of an Independence class carrier which has just launched its planes in January 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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413. Photograph. 'File No: 289617 January 2, 1945 Pacific maneuvers meant a mighty array of warships on parade. But in time of war, the might is not on parade; it is hunting down and destroying the enemy. Here a battleship maneuvers ahead of an Independence class carrier which has just launched its planes, wing tip of one just visible, upper right.' 2 January 1945
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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