Chief petty officers during an off-duty moment aboard the USS Iowa, 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
Description:
Photograph. Chief petty officers sitting at a table and on supply boxes aboard the USS Iowa.Official stamp on reverse: "Hold for release / Not for publication before afternoon papers of October 26, 1944 / 256638 / Iowa 'Teepee'--- In this wardroom the 'chiefs' of the IOWA congregate during off-duty moments. Top-rated among enlisted men, the Navy's chiefs are experts at their duties and nowhere is this more true than on a battleship." Official United States Navy publication stamp on reverse.Pacific Ocean. 26 October 1944
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.