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2-10-44 |
77.09.1621 |
New York Bureau
Bombing of Helsinki
HELSINKI, FINLAND—Here is a view of a street in bomb-blasted Helsinki
after the Russian raid on the Finnish capital on January 6th.
Photo reached New York by radio February 10th, 1944.
Credit: ACME RADIOPHOTO. |
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2-10-44 |
77.09.2064 |
Candidates for Invasion Jitters
This photo, just received from a neutral source, shows camouflaged
German observers on duty along the “Atlantic Wall”, Nazi defenses
along the Invasion Coast of the English Channel. Any day, now, these
boys will be in the thick of it when they are confronted by the Allied
Invasion Armies under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied
Commander-in-Chief.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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2-10-44 |
77.09.2067 |
First Photos of Heligoland
This photo, just received from a neutral source, is one of the first
ever published of the modern defenses of Germany’s Gibralter—the
island of Heligoland, in the North Sea. Even in wartime, say the
Germans, tourists are still permitted to visit Heligoland, but a
special permit must be obtained. Here, a woman and two children land
on the quay, where their pass is inspected before they are allowed to
go inland. |
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2-10-44 |
77.09.2295 |
New York Bureau
First Photos of Heligoland (#1)
This photo, just received from a neutral source, is one of the first
ever published of the modern defenses of Germany’s Gobralter – the
island of Heligoland, in the North Sea. Heligoland, in peacetime a
tourist center, and in wartime a military and naval fortress and
U-boat base, is claimed by the Germans to be “inaccessible to the
enemy.” Here, is a view of the fortress from the sea.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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2-10-44 |
77.09.2702 |
New York Bureau
War’s Grim Toll
Credit: ACME |
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2-10-44 |
77.09.4279.a-b |
New York Bureau
HELLCAT FLIES FOR THE BRITISH
AT SEA—An American-built Grumman Hellcat fighter of the British Fleet
Air Arm, comes in for a landing aboard the escort aircraft carrier
H.M.S. Ravager “somewhere at sea”, as a signalman gives the all clear.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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2-11-44 |
77.09.106 |
New York Bureau
Embattled Zhitomer
Zhitomer, U.S.S.R. – Four times a battlefield, the important
industrial town of Zhitomer in the Kiev sector of the Ukraine lay in
ruins when the Red Army finally drove the Nazis from the stronghold.
Here a German demolition squad stands by to watch its handiwork near
completion as a row of buildings burn to the ground. Photo obtained
through a neutral source.
Credit: (ACME) |
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2-11-44 |
77.09.289 |
New York Bureau
No Mistaking Hospital Markings
ITALY -- Red crosses on white backgrounds plainly mark an American
field hospital outside of Nettuno; the type of tent hospital twice
bombed by the Nazis in the past few days. On February 10, the Germans
killed two women nurses and wounded four medical officers and three
enlisted patients during an early evening bombing.
Credit (ACME Photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent) |
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2-11-44 |
77.09.1932 |
New York Bureau
Worried Peasants
ACCRIELLA, ITALY -- Looking very much concerned, natives of Accriella
stand by as first aid is given to a wounded Fifth Army warrior. The
Yank had been injured in nearby patrol action just a few minutes
before, as the Allies drove inland after their landing at Nettuno.
Credit Line - WP- (ACME) Photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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2-11-44 |
77.09.1958.a |
New York Bureau
No "Double-Cross" For the Mussolini
ITALY -- These Italian refugees are permitted to cross the Mussolini
canal, but only in one direction -- toward Allied territory. American
soldiers help the natives across the small waterway where retreating
Germans blasted a concrete bridge.
Credit (Acme Photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent) |
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2-11-44 |
77.09.2065 |
New York Bureau
Battered at Beachhead
ITALY – Injured fighters who are able to walk, watch their more
seriously wounded comrades being loaded aboard a warship off the
Anzio-Nettuno beachhead. The shore may be seen, dimly, in the
background.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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2-11-44 |
77.09.2066 |
New York Bureau
“Hell Hath no Fury Like a Woman Scorned”
ITALY – Loudly bewailing temporary desertion by her mother, this
little Italian miss is too young to seek consolation from that
interesting looking basket at the left. She and her mother had a
one-way ticket to the American lines of the Cassino front. The Yanks
help them to Allied territory, but they are forbidden a return visit
to Nazi-land. That is, if anyone wants to return.
Credit (ACME Photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent)
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2-11-44 |
77.09.2299 |
New York Bureau
Nazis are the Fish
ITALY – German prisoners are herded together in the beachhead area
south of Rome at a spot so wide-open the Yanks have nicknamed it the
“Gold Fish Bowl.” Pvt. William Shea, (left), and Pfc. Andrew Calet,
both of New York City, guard the Nazis who will be marched to the
rear.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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2-11-44 |
77.09.4005.a-b |
Washington Bureau-Acme Newspictures
Adieu
Raymond E. Clapper, left, newspaper columnist for the Scripps-Howard
Newspaper Alliance and Radio Commentator, bids goodbye to Major
General Ralph J. Mitchell, right, Commander of Marine Air Units in the
Solomons; as he took off from Munda Airfield. Mr. Clapper died in
mid-air crash while on a tour of the South Pacific Bases and the war
zones.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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2-12-44 |
77.09.1937 |
New York Bureau
Doctors Live Ground Hog Lives in Italy
ITALY -- Point-blank gunfire finally dislodged the Germans from this
underground dugout now occupied by American Army doctors in the
Cassino sector. Well underground, the shelter is protected by layers
of concrete, reinforced with steel girders.
Credit (ACME Photo via U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) |
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2-12-44 |
77.09.1938 |
New York Bureau
After German Bomber Passed
ITALY -- Nazi anti-personnel bombs ripped that American Red Cross flag
which is spread out behind the bomb crater on the grounds of an
evacuation hospital near the Nettuno beachhead. Nurse Lt. Sally Hocutt,
of Wendell, N.C. (left) and Pvt. Marshall Floyd, of Marshville, N.C.,
view the damage to the tent hospital, blasted by the enemy.
Credit (ACME Photo via U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) |
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02-12-44 |
77.09.2818 |
New York Bureau
Wounded Dog Completes Mission
Bougainville – A Marine Corps messenger dog with a bullet in his spine
lies quietly on a cot in the Bougainville sick bay while a Navy
Corpsman X-rays him. Shot by a Jap sniper while carrying a message,
the German Shepherd completed his mission and was rushed to the
hospital. Doctors could not remove the bullet without sacrificing his
life.
Credit Line (U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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2-13-44 |
77.09.1791 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
MISSED!—THEY ALWAYS DO
ANZIO HORBOR, ITALY—Smoke and water cascade skyward as bombs dropped
by Nazi raiders fail to hit their target, landing on the harbor bed.
The Germans have tried to bomb these supply ships resting in the
harbor at Anzio many times—but they’ve seldom hit the vessels.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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2-13-44 |
77.09.1792 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
PEACE—IN THE HEART OF THE STORM
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT—Describing this photo Acme photographer Bert
Brandt says: “This is the kind of scene you see as you travel along
near the front—and it always amazes you for it looks so peaceful and
yet you are within easy hearing of the shell bursts on the front only
a mile away.” Left to right: Pfc Arthur Eames, Suffern, NY; Cpl Willie
Whiteside, Rutherfordton, N.C.; and Cpl Arlo Pittman, May, Okla.,
watch with interest as an Italian family makes yarn from fleece in
their farmyard just as they have done for years. Pvt Antone Silva,
North Dartmouth, Mass., helps with the operation.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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2-13-44 |
77.09.1793 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
CAPTURED NAZI BOOTY
ITALY—A field chock-full of captured German ammunition and mines is
guarded by Pfc. Michael Paulik, MP from Pittsburgh, Pa., who is
fighting in the Nettuno beachhead area.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt via Army Radiotelephoto |
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2-13-44 |
77.09.2599 |
New York Bureau
Black Clouds for Tokyo
Namur – Jap installations go skyward in the form of smoke as Marine
demolition squads do the job on Namur. More Marines return enemy
sniper fire on nearby Roi Island beach in foreground.
Credit: Official U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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2-13-44 |
77.09.3965.a-b |
New York Bureau
FDR Presents French Navy With New DE
Washington, D.C.—The destroyer-escort “Senegalais” flies the French
Tricolor (stern in background) after being presented by President
Roosevelt as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, to the French
Navy. French and U.S. soldiers stand at attention during the colorful
ceremony. The President’s car is in the foreground.
Credit: ACME. |
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2-14-44 |
77.09.876 |
New York Bureau
Air Mail, Special Delivery
Italy—Crew members empty the capacious hold of their 12 Army Air Force
troop carrier plane and load the supplies on a truck to be rushed to
Fifth Army fighters at the Anz I-O front. The ship is on a newly
constructed landing strip within the south of Rome bridgehead area.
Credit: Signal Corps radiotelephoto from ACME |
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2-14-44 |
77.09.1939 |
New York Bureau
Nazi Communications Walloped From Air
ORTE, ITALY -- A B-26 Marauder wings over enemy marshalling yards at
Orte, Italy, as smoke (background) marks an Allied bomb-hit on the
enemy supply link to Nazis battling at Anzio. The return of fair
flying weather has brought out Allied warplanes in a round-the-clock
assault against the Germans in Italy.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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2-14-44 |
77.09.2226 |
New York Bureau
Vacation Over for Naples Kids
NAPLES, ITALY – Naples children, who have had a long holiday from the
classroom as they hid from both Allied and Nazi bombs, now file back
to school, passing war ruins on the way. Many Neapolitan families
moved into hillside caves as war rocked their city.
Credit Line (Acme) |
