Navy TBF pilots walking toward their waiting planes on a Task Force 58 carrier for a strike against Guam in 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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506.Photograph. 'File Number: TR-10955 January 23, 1945 Heading for Guam Navy TBF pilots walking toward their waiting planes on a Task Force 58 carrier for a strike against Guam. During the entire Guam occupation operation, Navy pilots kept up a daily strafing attack against Jap troops and bombing of Jap installations on the island.' 23 January 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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Guam
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13.467
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144.833
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Aircraft carriers--American--Guam
Airplanes--American--Guam
Fighter pilots--American--Guam
Military air pilots--American--Guam