Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 101
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.1417 |
New York Bureau
Moving Up
Cassino, Italy—Crouching as they dash across the uneven ground,
British troops move forward in the Cassino area, on the Allied fifth
army front.
Credit: ACME. |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.1419 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
More Fodder for Hitler’s Cannons
Germany—Volunteers for Germany’s so-called armoured infantry division
“Gross Deutschland,” many of whom are obviously only 15 years old,
stage their first “parade” through the town where the division is
stationed before they have even received their uniforms. Seemingly
unaware of the grim death that awaits most of these unseasoned
fighters, a little girl (right) happily offers a parting gift to one
of the “men.” Photo radioed from Stockholm this morning.
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.1420 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Youth Must Serve
Germany—Volunteers for Germany’s so-called “Gross Deutschland,” many
of whom are obviously in their mid-teens, are shown receiving their
clothing issue in a town where the division is stationed. Looks as if
Germany is determined to use her very last drop of manpower in this
war before giving up the struggle. Photo radioed from Stockholm this
morning.
Credit: ACME radiophoto |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.2578 |
New York Bureau
”Island Forts” Protect British Shipping
On the British Coast – Manned by Royal Marines, “Island Forts” like
this one are protecting Britain’s east coast. Each fort consists of
two concrete towers, 50 feet high, connected by a superstructure on
which ack-ack guns and equipment are mounted. Commissioned as H.M.
ships, the forts have accounted for a number of German aircraft.
Credit: ACME |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.2580 |
New York Bureau
War’s Victims
Changteh, China – While waiting for aid from relief organizations set
up at Changteh after Chinese fighters drove the Japs from that city.
An old man cares for his ill wife. Both were innocent victims of the
terrific fight for the key city, from which the enemy was chased on
December 9, 1943, six days after the Japs first took Changteh.
Credit: ACME |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.2581.a |
New York Bureau
Marked for Destruction
This photo, released by the Navy Department in Washington today, shows
a U.S. Navy Liberator Bomber (PB4Y) starting a run on a Jap oil barge
off New Ireland, in the Pacific. A string of splashes leading up to
the enemy craft mark machine gun hits “marching” up and across the
barge. Black smoke marking fires and a spreading oil slick around the
craft attests to the success of the attack. The barge was later sunk
by bomb hits.
Credit: U.S. Navy official photo from ACME |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.2582 |
New York Bureau
Marines Advance—With Caution
Cape Gloucester – Widely separated and hugging the slim cover of the
jungle grass, these U.S. Marines advance behind a General Sherman tank
near Cape Gloucester. Although the area had been heavily bombarded by
American Naval units a short time before, the leathernecks are taking
no chances with the treacherous Nips.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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2-2-44 |
77.09.3057 |
New York Bureau
That Nasty Russian Winter Again
SOMEWHERE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT—That nasty old man, the Russian winter,
is bringing nightmares in the daytime to Hitler’s soldiers again. Ill
clad and almost blinded by the snow, the hapless Nazis retreat,
leading their pack mules back from the central Soviet front. Photo
obtained through a neutral source.
Credit: ACME |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.1406 |
New York Bureau
On the Road to Rome
Italy—An American tank rolls up a hill from the invasion beach, where
it was landed during the first stages of the Allied capture of
beachheads in the Nettuno-Anzio area in the drive on Rome, last Jan.
22. Standing off the beach (background in photo) can be seen some of
the ships of the huge Allied invasion fleet (passed by censors).
Credit: ACME. |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.1421 |
New York Bureau
Allied Armada at Leap Frog Landing
Italy—A vast flotilla of Allied ships stretches out along the harbor
in the Anzio-Nettuno area as troops of the Fifth Army are swiftly
landed in the “leap frog” operation. The strategic landing caught the
enemy by surprise and resistance was light.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME. |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.1426 |
Invasion Armada Heads for Rome
This photo, one of the first originals to reach the United States, was
taken as the huge Allied invasion fleet headed toward beachheads in
the Nettuno-Anzio sector for the drive on Rome. At left (photo above)
barrage balloons soar above LSTs (landing ships, tanks), while in
center and right background, the sea is covered with invasion craft of
various types. (Passed by censors)
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool. |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.1427 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Burying Their Dead
Somewhere in Italy—Under the supervision of their Allied captors,
German prisoners of war turn up Italian soil, digging graves for their
late comrades. The Nazis were taken in the battle for Nettuno. Photo
radioed to New York today (February 3rd).
Credit: Official OWI radiophoto from ACME. |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.2452 |
New York Bureau
HEADED FOR DRIVE ON ROME
This photo, one of the first originals to reach the United States, was
taken as the massive Allied invasion fleet headed toward beachheads in
the vicinity of Nettuno and Anzio for the drive on Rome. At right,
(above) is a LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) with its barrage balloon
hovering above. In left, background, are LCIs (Landing Craft,
Infantry). Today it was announced that American Infantry, supported by
tanks, had driven into the northwestern part of Cassino.
Credit Line (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool) |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.2572.a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Winged Midgets of the Jungle
CBI War Theater – While American bombers and fighters roar into the
headlines, a vastly different type of U.S. Army “Air Force” works
quietly and efficiently on its own, hidden war fronts. Small and
rugged Cubs and Sentinels, piloted by enlisted men who built up their
flying time in civilian life, are skimming the jungles, hopping over
mountain ridges, and soaring through ragged canyons, on missions
invaluable to American, British, and Chinese troops in the CBI War
Theater.
No guns are carried by the Midget Aircraft. The main “weapon” of the
Cub or Sentinel is maneuverability, and when charged by the enemy, the
tiny plane adopts the tactics of a mosquito evading a hawk.
A Chinese soldier, wounded in Burma, is brought back to a base
hospital by a Sentinel (background). Other mercy missions of the
Midget Plane include the dropping of food and medical supplies to
frontline jungle warriors.
Credit: ACME photo by Frank Cancellare, War Pool Correspondent |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.2577 |
New York Bureau
Their Objective Reached
Cape Gloucester, New Britain – After three days of hard fighting in
the jungles of New Britain, Uncle Sam’s marines reach their Cape
Gloucester objective—the strategic Jap-held airfield. At left,
background, is a wrecked Jap plane, ruined during the heavy
bombardment that preceded the leatherneck invasion.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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2-3-44 |
77.09.2579 |
New York Bureau
En Route to the Airfield
New Britain – Marine riflemen keep a sharp lookout for snipers and
attacking enemy warriors as one of their tanks pauses on New Britain
to blast away at a Jap pillbox with 75mm and machine fun fire. The
leathernecks are en route to Cape Gloucester airfield, which fell to
them shortly after this photo was made.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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2-4-44 |
77.9.17 |
New York Bureau
Nazi Tanks Travel
A trainload of Nazi tanks moves east of the town of Macerata, near the
Adriatic coast of Italy, in this photo, made by a reconnaissance pilot
of the U.S.A.A.F. The tanks are Mark IIIs, mounted with assault guns.
They were being hauled to reinforce the German units facing the
British Eighth Army.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Force photo from AMCE) |
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2-4-44 |
77.09.18 |
New York Bureau
Yanks Lend a Hand
Italy – Pfc Manuel Martins of New Jersey lends a helping hand to an
aged Italian woman crossing a makeshift bridge in the Mussolini Canal
Sector of Italy. Behind them are other refugees, making their way back
to their homes in territory now occupied by the Yanks.
Credit: (ACME photo by Charles Seawood for the War Picture Pool,
transmitted via U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) |
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2-4-44 |
77.09.19 |
New York Bureau
Navy Sinks Nazi Blockade Runner
U.S. Navy Forces operating in the South Atlantic early last month sank
three German blockade runners heavily laden with vital war materials
for the Reich. Our men picked up hundreds of tons of baled rubber
found floating amid the wreckage of the sunken ships, and took many
prisoners. Here Comdr. William C. Hughes, Jr., USN, commanding officer
of the USS Somers, which caught the blockade runners, supervises the
transportation of the German prisoners from the port to which the
captives were brought.
Credit: (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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2-4-44 |
77.09.3066 |
New York Bureau
Nazis Preserve Their Crimes on Film--!
RUSSIA—A Nazi soldier was evidently proud of the way his cohorts
rounded up this old Russian farm couple to be hanged, for pictures of
the deed were found in his pockets when he was taken prisoner in the
Ukraine. The elderly peasant man and woman know what is in store for
them.
Credit: ACME |
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2-6-44 |
77.09.20 |
New York Bureau
War-Torn Valley on Road to Rome
Italy – A photo from an Allied observation plane, looking north over
the Cassino Battlefield, gives a bird’s-eye view of the embattled
valley on the road to Rome. The burst of smoke in the right foreground
reveals an American gun position firing on Nazi installations in
Cassino, the shell-torn town huddled at the foot of the mountain ridge
in the background. With the capture of Mt. Trocchio (center) and Mt.
Cairo, high peak in the background, Fifth Army fighters have
three-quarters circled the enemy, the Abbey of Monte Cassino, perched
in the mountain above Cassino (left of town), bristles with Nazi guns
trying to thwart our drive to Rome. The Rapido River is at top right.
Credit: (ACME) |
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02-06-44 |
77.09.2738 |
New York Bureau
Marine Air Ace Reported Missing
South Pacific – Lt. Robert W. Hanson, 23-year-old Marine fighter pilot
with a record of 25 enemy planes downed in the South Pacific, has been
reported missing in action since Thursday. Lt. Hanson, of Newtonville,
Mass., was within one victory of tying the record of Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker in World War I. Here, the missing ace inspects the wing
of his fighter plane damaged by Jap 20 mm. shells during a fight with
a zero. During the battle, Hanson downed the zero.
Credit (Official U.S.M.C. photo from ACME) |
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02-06-44 |
77.09.2748 |
New York Bureau
The Seabees Saved Her
New Georgia Island – Abandoned as lost when it struck a hidden reef
off New Georgia Island in the Solomons, this $250,000 Navy Catalina
was salvaged by the Seabees. The construction battalion men lashed
tarpaulin around the hull to cover holes in the ship and, using rubber
rafts as pontoons, they floated the big ship ashore.
Credit line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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2-6-44 |
77.09.3978.a |
New York Bureau
Cruiser Atlanta Launched
Camden, N.J.—The Cruiser Atlanta, fourth Naval vessel to bear that
name, goes down the ways of the New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden,
after its christening today (Feb. 6th). Mrs. Margaret
Mitchell Marsh, author of “Gone with the Wind,” sponsored the vessel
for which citizens of Atlanta raised $63, 387, 879 in war bond sales
after the third ship of the same name was sunk off Guadalcanal. Mrs.
Marsh also sponsored the third Atlanta.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME. |
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2-6-44 |
77.09.3983.a-b |
Chicago Bureau
Shakes Hand That Piloted Ship
Oklahoma City, Okla. - Oklahoma’s Governor, Robert S. Kerr, welcomes
Capt. John R. Johnson, pilot of the famed Flying Fortress Hell’s
Angels and veteran of European combat missions, while S. Sgt. Edward
W. West Jr. and M. Sgt. Fabian S. Folmer back him up. Ground and
combat crews of the ship were reunited at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City,
when the ship arrived there to start on a War Loan tour.
Credit: ACME |
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