Navy planes riding the deck of the USS Tulagi as the carrier plows her way toward France for the August 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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467. Photograph. 'File No: TR-11072 September 5, 1944 France-Bound Armada U. S. Navy planes riding the deck of the USS Tulagi as the carrier plows her way toward France for the August 15, 1944 invasion. With the Tulagi in this group is the USS Kassan Bay and seven British escort carriers of the CVE class.' 5 September 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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Aircraft carriers--American--France
Aircraft carriers--British--France
Airplanes--American--France