A Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat lands on its carrier following a strike at Japanese installations in the Philippines in February 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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419.Photograph. 'File No: 47892 February 6, 1945 Hellcat comes back A Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat lands on its carrier following a strike at Jap installations in the Philippines.' 6 February 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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Pilipinas
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13.000
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122.000
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Airplanes--American--Philippines
Warships--American--Philippines
Aircraft carriers--American--Philippines