Aerial reconnaissance view of Guam before the landings in 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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507.Photograph. 'File Number: 511072 July 21, 1944 Navy search plane photographs Guam before landings-Aerial view of Guam, on which Marines and Army troops landed on July 20, 1944, taken by a Navy reconnaissance plane before the ground forces began the momentous assault. Etched in white far below can be seen highways and military roads on a large Jap [Japanese] installation near the shore of the base.' 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:
Aerial views--Guam
Military reconnaissance--American--Guam
Roads--Guam