One of the USS Iowa's 5 inch guns fires at a distant target in October 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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One of the USS Iowa's 5 inch guns aft fires at a distant target, its muzzle spouting a jet of flame and smoke in October 1944. "46667 October 26, 1944. Battleship's 'Bristles. Protruding from the side of the USS Iowa like the bristles on a porcupine, guns of all calibers menace the foe. In this photograph one of the 5 inch guns aft fires at a distant target, its muzzle spouting a jet of flame and smoke." 26 October 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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