A Marine-piloted Corsair ready for take-off from an Essex class carrier to which two Marine fighter squadrons have been assigned in February 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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452.Photograph. Chance Vought F4U Corsair ' File Number: TR-12682 Feb. 27, 1945 Marine Flat Top Flyers Ready for the take-off A Marine-piloted Vought Corsair ready for take-off from an Essex class carrier to which two Marine fighter squadrons had been assigned a few days before. Marine pilots, land-based during this war had never flown as a unit from a carrier until Dec. 27 when Marine squadrons were given duty on this flat-top.' 27 February 1945
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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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