Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 100
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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01-31-44 |
77.09.3304 |
New York Bureau
Babes In the Woods
Cape Gloucester – These two U.S. Marines were quick to take advantage
of a lull in the fighting at the base of Hill 660, vital strongpoint
in the Jap defense line near Cape Gloucester, to “hit the sack”.
Here, they sleep peacefully under a crude shelter to keep out the
heavy rains, on the 18th day of the fighting for the hill,
which eventually fell to the fighting U.S. Leathernecks.
Credit line (ACME photo by Thomas L. Shafer for the War Picture Pool) |
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01-31-44 |
77.09.3205 |
Wash Day in New Britain
New Britain – Major H.R. Kolp, USMC, of Akron, Ohio, does his washing
in a homemade “washing machine”, made of a 10 gallon fruit can placed
over a fire built in a pit. An agitating plunger—a can at the end of
a piece of wood—the clothes.
Credit line (ACME photo by Thomas L. Shafer for the War Picture Pool) |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.3733ab |
New York Bureau
Maj. Howard Bags Another
England—Maj. James H. Howard, of St. Louis, Mo., who became one of the
outstanding heroes of the air war over Europe, when single-handed he
took on a pack of 30 Nazi fighters over Oserschleben, Germany, and
shot down six of them. It was announced today that Maj. Howard was
credited with another on the Reich. (Passed by censor).
Credit: ACME. |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.3783 |
New York Bureau
Skilled Surgeons and Soldiers in Palm Beach
Palm Beach. Fla.—A wounded soldier undergoes an operation at the Ream
General Hospital, former breakers hotel which since last September has
been an Army medical center specializing in neuro-psychiatric surgery
and facial surgery. At present, about 800 men are being treated there,
and the Army had considered wide expansion of accommodations until
negotiations were started to return the hotel to its original owners,
apparently at the instigation of local real estate and business
interests.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.3785 |
New York Bureau
Wounded Waist Gunner Returns to Base
Washington, D.C.: Wounded when a 20mm shell exploded near his post,
the waist gunner of a Flying Fortress is shown being removed through
the bomb bay doors. The ship was on a mission to Frankfort in which
some 800 bombers participated.
Credit: US Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME. |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.3786 |
New York Bureau
Close Shave
Washington, D.C.: German bombs miss their targets of Allied ships near
Anzio Harbor, Italy.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for “AR Picture Pool via Army
radiotelephoto. |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.3787 |
New York Bureau
Getting Back Strength Under Florida Sun
Palm Beach, Fla—A bunch of husky, or near-husky soldiers doing their
calisthenics is a strange sight in the patio of the exclusive Breakers
Hotel, in Palm Beach. Now the Ream General Hospital, the former
luxurious winter home of wealthy vacationists houses soldiers just
returning from war theaters and those injured in U.S. camps. The
wounded fighters may have to find a new place to relax and grow
healthy if the onetime hotel is returned to its owners.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.4517a |
New York Bureau
Seven in One Day
England – S/Sgt. Oliver R. Germann, 25, of Moran, Wyoming, extreme
right, who received seven decorations in one day, the Silver Star, DFC
with Oakleaf Cluster, Purple Heart, Airmedal with Three Oakleaf
Clusters, holds a wooden model of a bomber given by S/Sgt. M. Hall, of
Sanger, California, extreme left. Others watching the little ceremony
are, left to right: S/Sgt. F.B. Mellums, of Springfield, Tennessee;
S/Sgt. L.L. Ackerman, of Fox, Arkansas; T/Sgt. B.R. Smith, of Insull,
Kentucky; S/Sgt. J.A. Crowder, of Luden, Tennessee, and S/Sgt. Oliver
Germann.
Credit: ACME |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.4518a |
New York Bureau
Just Ignored
England – Liberator bombers of the U.S. Army 8th Air Force
wing their way to their target, Munster, Germany, and contemptuous of
Nazi aerial strength, blandly ignore this German airfield enroute to
their mission.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.1300 |
New York Bureau
Watch Dogs of the Ghetto
OCCUPIED EUROPE – Jewish police, operating in a ghetto market place,
wear Star of David armbands and carry rubber truncheons. This photo,
just received from a neutral source, is one of the first to show
typical day-to-day scenes in a ghetto in German-occupied Europe where
the Jews, separated from the rest of the population, carry on an
entirely separate existence. Outside their walls, they are guarded by
Gestapo police.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.1301 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
FOR JEWS ONLY
OCCUPIED EUROPE—Crowded to capacity, with Jewish children clinging to
the outside, a ghetto street car starts off on a journey, the Star of
David (top of car) prominently displayed. The public conveyance is
confined to the limits of a ghetto, somewhere in German-occupied
Europe, where Jewish people are packed together and segregated from
the rest of the world.
Credit: Acme |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.1314 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS DEMONSTRATED
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Charles McGonegal, of Sunol, Calif., World War I
veteran who lost both arms in combat action, shows his ability to use
his artificial hands to a group of present war veterans, similarly
afflicted. Demonstration, held under auspices of American Legion, took
place in the occupational therapy division of the Army Medical Center,
Walter Reed Hospital.
Credit: Acme |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.1316 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
PUBLICLY RIDICULED
OCCUPIED ERUOPE—The Nazis forced these four bearded Jewish men to
march in a parade staged to denounce their own race. The Jews present
grief-stricken or uncompromising countenances to the camera as they
walk through the unhealthy ghetto in occupied Europe where the Nazis
staged the anti-Semite demonstration. This photo was received through
a neutral source.
Credit: Acme |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.1322 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
NO “CABS” IN A GHETTO
OCCUPIED EUROPE—Young Jewish boys push home-made “taxis” through the
street of a ghetto in German occupied Europe. Guarded on the outside
by the Gestapo, and on the inside by Jewish police, the inhabitants of
the ghetto are segregated from the rest of the country. Received
through a neutral source, this is one of the first photos to show a
typical day-by-day existence in a Nazi-created ghetto.
Credit: Acme |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.1408 |
New York Bureau
Ancient and New Helmets
Italy: Capt. Frederick J. Saam, of Calumet, Mich., presents a contrast
in the two epochs of war, which the town of Anzio, Italy has witnessed
with the ancient Roman helmet in his right hand and his own 20th
century helmet in his left hand.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto from ACME. |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.1790 |
CHIPPING THE ICE OFF NAZI COMUNICATIONS
ITALY—An R.A.F. Baltimore lets loose a pair of bombs on the
snow-covered town of Sulmona, important Nazi field communications
center on the East-West route across Italy. One of the first pictures
of R.A.F. support of Allied ground forces on the road to Rome, the
photo shows the bomb heading straight for the rail junction and
station nestled in the frozen valley.
Credit: Acme |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.2583 |
New York Bureau
Pre-Assault Rest
Cape Gloucester – Marines take it easy prior to boarding an LST at an
advance base for their assault on New Britain Island where they took
the Cape Gloucester airfields from the Japs.
Credit: Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.2584 |
New York Bureau
Jap Prisoners Seized in Gilberts
South Pacific – An American Naval officer questions two prisoners
seized in a raid on an atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The taller of the
two, wearing a rosary, claimed to be a Korean—one of the thousands of
his countrymen conscripted by the Japs for work battalions. A Jap at
the right at first claimed to be a laborer, too, but the Korean put
him “on the spot” by signaling to the Naval officer by waving his arms
that the man was a Jap flier.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME |
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02-01-44 |
77.09.3475.a |
Radio photo
New York Bureau
Sign of the Times
This photo, flashed to New York tonight by radio from Algiers, shows
two bombs (bottom center) forming a perfect “V” – the victory sign –
as they fall from the bomb bay of a Baltimore bomber of the RAF, on
their way to the target, communications centers along the Rome-Pescara
road in Italy. Today, it was announced that British and American
troops have launched their first offensive since the landing on Anzio
beaches 10 days ago, and have driven to the outskirts of Campo Leone,
only 15 miles Southeast of Rome.
Credit line (ACME radio photo) |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.4049.a-b |
New York Bureau
The Eternal--and the Modern
Rio de Janeiro -- As though casting a blessing over these three white,
gull-like Martin Mariners of the U.S. Navy, this statue of Christos
Redemptor--Christ, the Redeemer--stands with outstretched arms atop
Corcovado Peak near Rio de Janeiro. The war planes are part of a group
flying on Navy Business, guarding convoys to and from Brazil.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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2-1-44 |
77.09.4050a |
New York Bureau
An “Avenger” Awing
This photo, released by the Navy Department in Washington today, shows
a Grumman Avenger Torpedo Bomber taking off from an American aircraft
carrier “somewhere at sea.” The high, white bow wave of the warship
indicated the speed with which the ship plows through a calm sea.
Today, in Washington, the Navy announced that the greatest task force
ever used, including carrier and land based aircraft and surface
craft, had effected a U.S. landing at two points in the Marshall
Islands, the first beachhead to be established in territory held by
the Japs before Pearl Harbor.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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02-02-44 |
77.09.1251 |
To Them It Means Nourishment
New York Bureau
ITALY--Some of the starving destitute Italians who cluster around
virtually every U.S. Army food dump in Italy scramble for their share
of far over the barbed wire barrier scraping for her share, while
others crowd close, their pails ready for leftovers, near the Cassino
Front.
Credit: WP |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.1411 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Axis Bid to Stop Allies’ Rome Drive
Anzio, Italy—In spite of many German air attacks on the Allies’ supply
line to the invasion beaches at Anzio, the U.S. and British forces
driving on Rome have pushed ahead and are on the outskirts of
Campoleone, 15 miles from the Eternal City. The advance was made
possible by a constant stream of men and material passing through
invasion beachheads. Here, in this photo flashed to the U.S. by
radiotelephoto, German plans attack Allied shipping near Anzio, the
bombs falling harmlessly in the water.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool via Army
radiotelephoto. |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.1413.a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Yanks in “Surf Blitz”
Nettuno, Italy—Cpl. John Chiodo, (left), of Johnston, PA., and Pvt.
Murrell Winner, of Louisville, KY, take time out for a dip in the surf
at the once-famous bathing resort of Nettuno—one of the Allies’
beachheads in their drive on Rome. Today, the British and Americans
have reached Campoleone and are only 15 miles from the Eternal City.
Note beautiful villas in background (photo above).
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool via Army
radiotelephoto. |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.1414 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Following the Boys Toward Rome
Anzio, Italy—As American and British continue their drive on Rome,
these U.S. Army nurses are shown arriving at the Allies’ invasion
beachhead of Anzio. Left to right, are: Lt. Isabella Wheeler, of
Blanchard, IA.; and Lt. Ruth Wells, Scottsbluff, Neb.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto. |
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