Shipyard workers building an aircraft carrier at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia 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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411.Photograph.Shipyard workers building an aircraft carrier. 'File No: W-SB-2-44457 January 21, 1944 Building new 45,000-ton U. S. Navy Carriers-- Workmen push steadily ahead on the building of the first of the Navy's giant 45,000 ton aircraft carriers. This one is being built at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Va.' Virginia. 21 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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Newport News
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36.967
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-76.417
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Aircraft carriers--American--Virginia
Boat & ship industry--Virginia
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Construction industry--Virginia
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