Anchored in a row at a Pacific base are aircraft carriers of Task Force 58 in 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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416. Photograph. 'File Number: 254869 (date not legible) Sluggers of Task Force 58 Anchored in a row at a Pacific base are aircraft carriers from whose decks Navy warplanes take off to supply much of the deadly punch of Task Force 58. Battleships provide the wallop for 'close-in' fighting.' 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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