Water and smoke shoots aloft as a bomb smashes the starboard side of a Japanese ship at Eniwetok on 30 January 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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193.Photograph. 'File Number: 45231. April 8, 1944. 'Masthead pictures of sinking of Jap ship. Swooping down at masthead level, a U. S. Navy plane shoots its camera as well as its guns to record the action in which a 2,500-ton Japanese cargo ship was strafed, bombed and sunk at Eniwetok atoll on January 30, 1944. A cone of water and smoke shoots aloft as a bomb smashed the starboard side of the ship, inflicting a mortal wound.' 30 January 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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Enewetak
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11.583
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162.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bombardment--Eniwetok
Cargo ships--Japanese
Explosions--Eniwetok