Bucket brigades swab off the decks of the giant USS Iowa during her shakedown cruise in October 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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USS Iowa. "59494 October 26, 1944 Wash Day for the Big 'I'--- Bucket brigades swab off the decks of the giant USS Iowa during her shakedown cruise. . . keeping their ship 'shipshape' is a must for Navy men." 26 October 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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Battleships--American
Cleaning
Sailors--American