Human chain of enlisted men parade on the decks of a battleship of the USS Iowa as they load her with provisions for a cruise in October 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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281.Photograph. USS Iowa. '46397 October 26, 1944 Loading the Larder--- Human chain of enlisted men parade on the decks of a battleship of the Iowa class as they load her with provisions for a cruise. The amount of supplies needed by a warship of this size for a sea mission is staggering. . . and the end of a day of loading operations, the work crews are staggering, too.' 26 October 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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Battleships--American
Sailors--American
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