Bob Feller, former Cleveland Indian great, blasts a strike past an opposing batter during a game in which he struck out 18 men at Efate in the New Hebrides in 16 May 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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399.Photograph. Bob Feller, baseball player. 'File No: 45536 May 16, 1944 Chief Bob Feller, Ex-Indian, 'Blows the man down'---Showing the same form that made him the dread of sluggers and push hitters alike for many seasons in the American League, Bob Feller, former Cleveland Indian great, blasts a strike past an opposing batter during a game in which he struck out 18 men at Efate in the New Hebrides. Now Chief Specialist (Physical Training instructor) in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Feller is managing a team of his shipmates from a U. S. battleship, has led them to eleven straight victories and no losses.' 16 May 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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Éfaté
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-17.667
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168.417
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