Four large U.S. carriers lie at anchor between strikes in January 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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414. Photograph. 'File No: 291064 January 2, 1945 Flat-tops at anchor at an island base. Framed by the propeller of an American war plane, four large U. S. carriers lie at anchor between strikes.' 2 January 1945
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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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Aircraft carriers--American
Airplane propellers