Navy warplanes prepare to take off as their carrier heads about into the wind during a recent battle mission in the Pacific in September 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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433.Photograph. Grumman TBF Avengers'File Number: 246959 September 26, 1944 Into the wind Navy warplanes prepare to take off as their carrier heads about into the wind during a recent battle mission 'somewhere in the Pacific.'' 26 September 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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