The lean power of the USS Iowa is sharply illustrated by this view of the ship, looking forward from the bridge in in the Pacific Ocean 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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294.Photograph. USS Iowa. 'File No. 256640 October 26, 1944 Bow . . . and Arrow-- Cleaving the Pacific like the head of an arrow, the lean power of the USS Iowa is sharply illustrated by this view of the ship, looking forward from the bridge.' 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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Pacific Ocean
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-0.500
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-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Battleships--American
Decks (Ships)
Artillery (Weaponry)--American
Warships--American
Sailors--American