View of Naples with Mount Vesuvius in the background in Italy in November 1943
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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460.Photograph. 'File No: W-IT-N-14-54374 Nov. 9, 1943 Birdman's eye view of Naples---Still beautiful as seen from aloft, despite devastation wreaked by the retreating Nazis, Naples looks forward to a new renascence after the war. Mount Vesuvius is in the background.' 9 November 1943
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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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Napoli
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40.833
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14.250
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Bays (Bodies of water)--Italy
Aerial views--Italy
Coastlines--Italy