Heavy guns of a U.S. cruiser north of Bougainville on 23 December 1943

U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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379.Photograph. "File No. 57540 March 7, 1944 Christmas greeting to the Jap Heavy guns of a U.S. cruiser light up the dark waters of the Pacific as the ship sends 'Christmas greetings' to Japs [Japanese] entrenched on Buka Island, north of Bougainville, on December 23, 1943. In the foreground the superstructure and two lookouts of a sister ship stand out darkly." 7 March 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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Buka Island
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Arms & armament--American--Bougainville
Warships--American--Bougainville
Night warfare--Bougainville