Three secondary batteries of the USS Iowa are used with equal efficiency against aerial or surface targets 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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285.Photograph. USS Iowa. '46349 October 26, 1944 Like a bolt of lightning, a five-inch dual purpose gun barks during night firing. Three secondary batteries of the USS Iowa are used with equal efficiency against aerial or surface targets.' 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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