Flares illuminate the harbor at Naples, Italy, as Nazi raiders strike by night in April 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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458.Photograph. "File No: 220333 April 13, 1944 Nazi raid on Naples Flares illuminate the harbor at Naples, Italy, as Nazi raiders strike by night. Silhouetted in the foreground, the gun turret of a U. S. cruiser is quiet as gun crews await orders to fire. Tracer bullets from other Allied ships anchored in Naples add to the eerie light." 13 April 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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Napoli
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40.833
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14.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Night warfare--Italy
Night photographs--Italy
Harbors--Italy