The Navy cruiser USS Biloxi hurls hot steel at the foe somewhere in the Pacific in April 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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378.Photograph. 'File Number: 48716 April 6, 1945 The 'Busy Bee' buzzes at the Japs In a typical mood of rage against the Japs, the Navy cruiser USS Biloxi hurls hot steel at the foe somewhere in the Pacific just as she did in an action-filled year since her first battle baptism in the invasion of the Marshalls. Following that victory, the Biloxi played an active role in blows against Truk, the Bonins, Yap, Emirau, Iwo Jima, Woleai, Guam, and the Volcanos, Rota, and Marianas and on her first anniversary the Palau group.' 6 April 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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