A group of Army A-20 Havoc attack bombers roaring out over the sea enroute to bomb Nazi positions in Cisterno, Italy in 28 March 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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Douglas A-20 Havoc. "File No: 58963 March 28, 1944 A-20's smash at Cisterno Emphasizing the close cooperation with which Army and Navy is working to overcome the foe throughout the world, a Navy aerial photographer snapped these photos of a group of Army A-20 attack bombers roaring out over the sea enroute to bomb Nazi positions in Cisterno." Cisterna, Italy. 28 March 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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Cisterna di Latina
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41.583
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12.817
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Bombers--American--Italy
Coastlines--Italy