Guns of the battleship USS Iowa point at the horizon as the ship lies at anchor on her shakedown cruise 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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290.Photograph. USS Iowa. 'File No.: 46665 October 26, 1944 Battlewagon's 'Teeth'--- Giant guns of the battleship USS Iowa point like deadly fingers at the horizon as the ship lies at anchor in a brief stop over on her shakedown cruise.' 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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