Marines aboard an aircraft carrier 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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"File Number: 243454 September 19, 1944. Reveille at dawn-- Sprawled out below the wings of Navy planes, Marines en route to a battle mission sleepily pull themselves out of the 'sack' for first chow aboard an aircraft carrier." 19 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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Soldiers--American
Airplanes--American
Sleeping
Cots
Airplane propellers
Decks (Ships)
Aircraft carriers--American