The Pacific raises giant waves as it smashes against a U.S. aircraft carrier en route to Indian waters 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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418.Photograph. "File No: 234066 July 11, 1944 Sea Battles 'Air' Doing its best to minimize the possibility of any planes taking off, the Pacific raises giant waves as it smashes against a U. S. aircraft carrier en route to Indian waters to participate in a combined forces raid on Jap-held bases in the Netherlands East Indies. The white combers are reflected in the gleam of the wet flight deck." 11 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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