A salvo from the 16' guns of the USS Iowa heads out for the target during a 'dress rehearsal' for a Pacific landing operation 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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291.Photograph. USS Iowa. '256591 October 26, 1944 'Big I' Bellow--- In a tremendous gust of smoke and flame, a salvo from the 16' guns of the USS Iowa heads out for the target during a 'dress rehearsal' for a Pacific landing operation.' 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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