Grumman F6F Hellcats warming up on the deck of a Navy Essex class aircraft carrier in February 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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409.Photograph. 'File No: TR-7989 February 22, 1944 This way lies Tokyo A disembodied arm extends outstretched over Grumman F6F Hellcats warming up on the deck of a Navy Essex class aircraft carrier for a strike at Jap island bases in the Pacific. The long finger points west . . . towards Tokyo, ultimate destination of the Navy's ships and planes.' 22 February 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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Pointing fingers