With a deafening roar, the 16' batteries of the U.S.S. Iowa loose tons of steel at a distant target during the shakedown cruise of the sea giant 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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284.Photograph. USS Iowa.'46628 October 26, 1944 Challenge With a deafening roar, the 16' batteries of the U.S.S. Iowa loose tons of steel at a distant target during the shakedown cruise of the sea giant.' 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
Warships--American
Artillery (Weaponry)--American