A canopy of smoke rises from the shores of Guam as Navy guns and planes hammer the Japanese base on 21 July 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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502.Photograph. 'File Number: 59458 August 2, 1944 Jap [Japanese] funeral pyre on Guam A towering canopy of gray and black smoke rises from the shores of Guam on July 21 as Navy guns and Navy planes hammer the Jap base to soften it for Marines and Army troops, swarming up the beaches to reestablish the Stars and Stripes on the island.' 21 July 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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Guam
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13.467
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144.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bombardment--Guam
Coastlines--Guam
Explosions--Guam