Chief petty officers during an off-duty moment aboard the USS Iowa, 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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Photograph. Chief petty officers sitting at a table and on supply boxes aboard the USS Iowa.Official stamp on reverse: "Hold for release / Not for publication before afternoon papers of October 26, 1944 / 256638 / Iowa 'Teepee'--- In this wardroom the 'chiefs' of the IOWA congregate during off-duty moments. Top-rated among enlisted men, the Navy's chiefs are experts at their duties and nowhere is this more true than on a battleship." Official United States Navy publication stamp on reverse.Pacific Ocean. 26 October 1944
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10/26/1944
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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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Pacific Ocean
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-0.500
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-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Sailors--American--Pacific Ocean
Battleships--American--Pacific Ocean
Smiling
Battleships--American