U.S. Navy ships pave way for Army smashing ashore at Biak on 27 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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490.Photograph. 40mm guns are not machine guns. ' File No: 59428 June 14, 1944 U.S. Navy ships pave way for Army smashing ashore at Biak-- Amphibious teamwork in action, pictured by Navy Combat Photographers as ships' guns clear the way for landings on tiny, strategic Biak Island in the Netherlands Indies, May 27, 1944. Possession of Biak, lying on the equator on the northwest end of New Guinea, presents a threat to the Philippines. Moving down the beach at Biak ahead of advancing U.S. forces, a destroyer shoots up a Jap [Japanese] ammunition dump, shown flaming from direct hits by 40mm machine guns.' 27 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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Biak
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Antiaircraft guns--American--Biak
Sailors--American--Biak
Explosions--Biak
War damage--Biak
Helmets