Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 1
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77.09.24 |
New York Bureau
End of the Road
Washington, D.C. – This Nazi reached the end of his road on this hill
in Corsica, where he fell before French patriots. here a French
Intelligence officer, with the rank of Lieutenant, remove the dead
German’s identification tags, as Corsican civilians look on. Picture
flashed to the United States by Signal Corps RadioTelephoto |
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77.09.28 |
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77.09.40 |
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77.09.47 |
Chicago Bureau
This Is One for the Books
Chicago – Somebody has said that one of the first things American
Soldiers ask for when they reach Alaska is an ice cream cone (of all
things). So to satisfy that unusual craving, Lt. Elfrieda Heideman
(left) of Kewanee, Ill., and Sgt. Mary Jane McGuire of Detroit pack a
shipment for the northern outpost. |
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77.09.65 |
“And We’ll all be Free”
Camp Callan, Calif – A fighting Marine beside the Stars and Stripes
and ready to “pass the ammunition” symbolizes observance of United
States first wartime Armistice Day, next week. Sun-browned and
tough-muscled, the Camp Callan soldier is joined by thousands of other
fighting leathernecks battling for all the first Armistice results’
failed to accomplish.
Credit: (ACME U.S. Army Photo) |
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77.09.101 |
Washington Bureau-ACME Newspictures
Mutual Exchange of “Good Luck”
The above photo flashed to the United States by Radiotelephoto shows
at a Sicilian port, a British Commando officer and an American Ranger
officer each wishing each other “good luck” prior to embarking for
expanded operations which resulted in the capitulations of Italy.
Credit: (ACME Photo via U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) |
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77.09.157 |
New York Bureau
Jap "Mopper-Uppers"
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This photo, taken during the early fighting on
Guadalcanal Island and released by the Marine Corps in Washington,
today, shows two well-armed Marines standing next to their "Mopper
Upper" light tank, with which they cleaned out pockets of Jap
resistance in the fight at Tenaru River.
Credit: (U.S. Marine Corps Photo from ACME) |
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77.09.183 |
no caption available |
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77.09.205 |
Canadians Sail for Britain
AT A CANADIAN PORT -- A fresh batch of Canadian reinforcements for
England, is shown waving good-bye as their ship eased out of its berth
from an East Coast port.
Credit: (ACME) |
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77.09.241 |
New York Bureau
Meet Oscar and Nellie
CALIFORNIA -- Meet Oscar and Nellie, two dummies that serve as
reconnaissance agents for paratroopers now on maneuvers "Somewhere in
the California Desert." The dummies are dropped first, then if the air
is smooth enough, paratroopers follow.
Credit: (U.S. Signal Corps from ACME) |
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77.09.288.a |
New York Bureau
Mobile Radio Station "Gets Around"
ITALY -- War weary men and women of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy are
mighty proud of their mobile radio station, officially known as the
Fifth Army Mobile American Expeditionary Station, which gets its music
and its "big time" programs to them wherever they are--in the front
lines, or in rest camps. The hard working crew that moves the
station's ten-unit "circus caravan" of Jeeps and trailers, and 2 1/2
ton trucks to various points in the combat area making sure that every
group is reached at least once a day, have the moving operation down
to a fine point. They can take the station down; move it 50 miles
(which is the range of the transmitter), and set it up again, all
within less than two hours. Here, with the Jive of a Fifth Army band
set up outside the radio station "somewhere in Italy," Combat
Engineers of the 337th Battalion (background), pause during a hike to
watch this pair "swing it." The girl is New York stage actress Sarah
Lee Harris, now with a USO troupe in the area. At the same time, the
music is broadcast. |
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77.09.297 |
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77.09.309 |
New York Bureau
ACME Cameraman Killed By Sniper's Bullet
Frank Prist, Jr., ACME Newspictures' photographer with the war picture
pool, was killed by a Jap sniper's bullet on the 24th Division front
in western Leyte, it was announced today. Prist (left) is shown here
with Gen. Douglas MacArthur aboard a PT boat at Tacloban, Leyte, He
was the only cameraman aboard the cruiser which took MacArthur to the
Philippines. He has been overseas since February, 1942, when he left
Australia with MacArthur's forces to follow the entire campaign up
though the Pacific to the Philippines. |
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77.09.323 |
(right corner of photo caption is torn away)
New York Bureau
MacArthur on the Spot
DUTCH NEW GUINEA -- Less than two hours after his American and
Australian troops stormed ashore at Taoji, only 1800 yards from
Hollandia Airport, Dutch New Guinea, Gen. Douglas MacArthur joined his
men on the jungle beach. Here he gets the latest ... from a beachhead
officer. Disdaining... danger, he went ashore without
...(pausing)...to wear a steel helmet.
Credit: (ACME) |
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77.09.341 |
Cablephoto
New York Bureau
LONDON -- Flames and smoke shoot skyward from an oil factory set afire
by British soldiers who invaded Vaagso in German-occupied Norway on
December 27. In the foreground the British hold a jetty against
snipers. British sources stated that Commandos took part in the raid.
Credit: (ACME Cablephoto) |
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77.09.346 |
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77.09.349 |
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77.09.351 |
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77.09.602 |
Ski Troops in Winter-Mountaineers in Summer
PACIFIC NORTHWEST – A new branch has been added to Uncle Sam’s Army –
a full-fledged “Mountain Regiment”, with 1,400 men who are undergoing
a rigid and specialized training program. Last winter these same men
formed the first organized ski troop battalion in the U.S., but now
that the ice and snow has given way to summer heat and dust they are
being developed into a regiment intended as a nucleus for similar
units of mountain infantry. The regiment’s commanding officer, Col.
O.S. Rolph, inaugurated the ski patrol and today personally supervises
every phase of the thorough training of the “Mountaineer Infantry”.
These photos, taken at the Mountaineering Training Area, show some
phases of the training.
New York Bureau
Mountaineers edge carefully along the face of a rock wall as they
complete their basic training and prepare for the second phase and
more rigorous training in a wild and mountainous area. |
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77.09.611 |
Toughened by Fire
CAMP DAVIS, N.C. – That’s no pose. Elmer Moody, officer candidate at
the Antiaircraft Artillery School, Camp Davis, has got practical
battle experience behind him. As an American volunteer in the Canadian
Army, he participated in several raids on the French coast in 1941. He
also saw action in France during 1940 and was right in the middle of
the Battle of Britain, hammering away at the Nazis with an
antiaircraft machine gun outfit on the coast of England. Last year,
the soldier who used to be a Pasadena, Calif., lawyer, transferred to
the U.S. Army.
Credit (Official U.S. Army Photo for ACME) |
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77.09.636 |
No caption |
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1945 |
77.09.643 |
Buchenwald Wedding Rings
These thousands of wedding rings were found by U.S. 1st
Army troops in a cave adjoining the Buchenwald concentration camp near
Weimar, Germany. Signal Corps caption says they had been removed by
Germans from their victims in order to salvage the gold.
(AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto) |
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77.09.652 |
New York Bureau
Nazi Prison Camp
GERMANY – This is the Russenlager section of Stalag XXIIA, Nazi prison
camp now in Allied hands. Liberated prisoners wander aimlessly over
grounds not quite able to comprehend newly-won freedom. Thick crossed
barbed wire fences surround the area |
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77.09.753 |
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77.09.854 |
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77.09.866 |
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