The warbirds of these carriers have 'neutralized' enemy planes and airfields sufficiently to allow battleships and other war craft to move close in for surface bombardments of Japanese bases in May 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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421.Photograph. 'File No: TR-9253 May 9, 1944 'Touchdown Twins' on Navy's mighty team Steaming through the Pacific en route to a battle mission, these two U. S. Navy aircraft carriers present a double reason for the recent 'triphibious' victories over the Japanese. Striking from hundreds of miles out in the ocean, the warbirds of these carriers have 'neutralized' enemy planes and airfields sufficiently to allow battleships and other war craft to move close in for surface bombardments of Jap bases--- necessary preludes to the actual landing of Marines and troops.' 9 May 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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