The U.S.S. Arkansas lays down a tremendous barrage against Nazi installations in France with her big guns in June 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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487.Photograph. 'File Number: 231250 June 12, 1944 USS Arkansas (BB-33) Blasts Enemy Shore Landing invaluable assistance to Allied ground forces, the U.S.S. Arkansas lays down a tremendous barrage against Nazi installations with her big guns.' 12 June 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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France
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46.000
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2.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Artillery (Weaponry)--American--France
Warships--American--France
Battleships--American--France