Aerial view of the Eniwetok Airstrip in August 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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495.Photograph. Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberators and Grumman F6F Hellcats on runway. 'File Number: 254811 August 8, 1944 Eniwetok Airstrip Obliterating the ravages of battle from Eniwetok, Navy Seabees have made an efficient and eye-pleasing base out of the former Jap stronghold in the Marshalls. This is an air view of part of the landing strip. Quonset huts and tents placed among the palms house the servicemen based there.' 8 August 1944
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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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Enewetak
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11.583
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162.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Islands--Eniwetok
Aerial views
Air bases--American--Eniwetok
Airplanes--American--Eniwetok
Quonset huts--Eniwetok
Palms--Eniwetok
Trucks--American--Eniwetok
Soldiers--American--Eniwetok
Coastlines--Eniwetok
Beaches--Eniwetok