The USS Iowa 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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The USS Iowa in October 1944. "59495. October 26, 1944. Close-up:'Ship o' the Line--- Deadly descendant of the first 'ships o' the line,' the USS Iowa moves through the sea majestically, with deceptive speed. Her massed batteries of 16' and lesser guns eye the horizons with latent menace." 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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