The ponderous barrels of the USS Saratoga's fives command sea and sky as she moves toward another raid on Japanese bases in the Pacific in January 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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410.Photograph. 'File No: TF-20-205327 January 18, 1944 Planes and guns 'Floating airfields', as our aircraft carriers are often termed, depend for protection on planes, five inch guns and numbers of anti-aircraft gun batteries. The ponderous barrels of the USS Saratoga's fives command sea and sky as she moves toward another raid on Jap bases in the Pacific.' 18 January 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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Pacific Ocean
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-0.500
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-91.000
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Artillery (Weaponry)--American
Aircraft carriers--American
Sailors--American
Arms & armament--American
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