An LCM near an aircraft carrier with Avengers spotted on the deck in March 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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415.Photograph. An LCM [Landing Craft, Mechanized] near an aircraft carrier. 'File Number: TR-12694 March 20, 1945 Carrier at rest Anchored in a vast Pacific harbor, a Navy carrier rests between war missions. General Motors TBM Avengers are spotted on the deck in the foreground.' 26 March 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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Landing craft--American
Warships--American
Airplanes--American
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