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2-14-44 |
77.09.2227 |
New York Bureau
Nazi Planes are Active, Too
ITALY – American and British trucks burst into flames, the victims of
a Nazi air attack in the embattled Nettuno area. Nazi bombs set off
the blaze which is fed by the vehicles’ fuel tanks. Our planes are
giving the same sort of treatment to enemy supply dumps and roads.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from Acme) |
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2-14-44 |
77.09.2647 |
New York Bureau
Plenty Yet to Come
Marshall Islands- Jap resistance is not yet quelled as Marines land on
Namur Island in the Kwajalein Atoll. The Leathernecks keep low as they
advance. That black smoke in the background is from a blasted enemy
oil dump. Note medical supplies at left.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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02-14-44 |
77.09.2781 |
New York Bureau
From Shellhole to Foxhole
Marshall Islands – U.S. Marines take advantage of the protection
offered by shell holes as tanks, half-tracks and other equipment are
unloaded from their landing craft on Namur Island where the heaviest
fighting of the recent Marshalls action took place. The Leathernecks
eliminated all enemy resistance on the island within 24 hours.
Credit (U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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02-14-44 |
77.09.3274 |
New York Bureau
New Britain Paddle-Patrol
New Britain – U.S. infantrymen go native with a genuine outrigger
canoe as they patrol the coast line of New Britain in reconnaissance
of enemy positions at Arawe. A heavy machine gun is mounted
amidships, just in case.
Credit (Signal Corps photo from ACME) |
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2-15-44 |
77.09.1788 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
YOUTHFUL REFUGEES
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—Tired and bewildered, four Finnish youngsters sit
quietly with hands folded and tags hung around their necks for
identification purposes. The children, evacuated from embattled
Finland, are shown as they arrived in Stockholm. Photo radioed to New
York today (Feb. 15th).
Credit: Acme Radiophoto |
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2-15-44 |
77.09.1789 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
GOING TO WORK
BERLIN—This has become a common sight in Berlin ever since the Allies
began to pound the German city from the air. Nazi laborers climb
aboard a large truck that will take them to work, since bus, subway,
street car and elevated lines were destroyed by bombs. But in spite of
this means of transportation, many Berliners must walk to their jobs.
Photo radioed to New York today (Feb 15th), was obtained
through a neutral source.
Credit: Acme Radiophoto |
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02-15-44 |
77.09.2776 |
New York Bureau
Pre-Invasion Blast at Jap Ships
Marshall Islands – Japs ships at Kwajalein atoll are rocked by bombs,
as U.S. Navy planes to Marine and Army infantry invasion. The plane
from which the picture was taken banks sharply to return to the
attack, its wing at upper right.
Credit (U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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02-15-44 |
77.09.2780 |
New York Bureau
Japs Got a Taste of Things to Come
Marshall Islands – Low flying Navy bombers fire a Jap merchantman off
Kwajalein Atoll, as part of the softening up exercises that preceded
invasion by Marine and infantry forces. Near-misses kick up a lot of
water near the ship that suffered direct hits amidships.
Credit (U.S. Navy official photo from ACME) |
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2-16-44 |
77.09.1218.a |
JAPS USE HOUSEBOATS AS BURMA HEADQUARTERS
SOMEWHERE IN BURMA – Japanese commanders use well camouflaged
houseboats as headquarters on Burma rivers, thus hoping to escape air
attack. Top photo shows how houseboat blends into jungle growth as
background. Bottom: Proof that the camouflaged headquarters did not
fool crew members of the R.A.F. Beaufighter which set the boat afire
with cannon shells and bombs.
Credit: ACME |
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2-16-44 |
77.09.2223 |
New York Bureau
Sample of American Precision Bombing (2)
ALIFE, ITALY – The target area clearly marked by roads that wind about
Alife, Yank bombs raise clouds of smoke as they fall in a tight
cluster on their objective. B-26 Marauders of the U.S.A.A.F. gave this
impressive showing of their adeptness at precision bombing in the raid
of October 13, 1943, before Alife fell to the Allies.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces Photo from Acme) |
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2-16-44 |
77.09.2224 |
New York Bureau
Sample of American Precision Bombing (1)
ALIFE, ITALY – Now in American hands, the town of Alife was a target
for B-26 Marauder medium bombers of the U.S.A.A.F. before its capture.
In this photo, one of a pair illustrating the perfection of Yank
precision bombing, the town is shown before the Marauder mission of
October 13, 1943, which wrecked Alife’s communications center. Roads
winding around the town clearly mark the target.
Credit Line (U.S. Army Air Forces Photo – Acme) |
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02-16-44 |
77.09.3297 |
New York Bureau
Bursts blockhouse Reveals 20 Japs
Namur Island – Thirty-six hours after Namur Island on Kwajalein Atoll
in the Marshalls was “secured”, a supposedly silenced Jap block house
blew up, bursting a steel door. A Jap soldier stumbled through and
three more were found inside. There had been 20 Japs in the block
house before the explosion. Here suspicious Marines direct an
uninjured Jap, clad only in a loin cloth, away from the building, as
another crawls out from wreckage beneath the door. A third Jap lies
dead between them.
Credit (U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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2-16-44 |
77.09.3964.a-b |
Illegible caption |
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2-16-44 |
77.09.4222a |
FOOLED YOU, DIDN”T IT?
ENGLAND—At first glance it would seem that this B-26 Marauder is
coming home in distress with its right engine ablaze. Actually the
white smoke is puffing from a locomotive on the tracks below. A
fast-thinking aerial photographer in another Marauder snapped the
optical illusion returning from a raid over occupied Europe.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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2-17-44 |
77.09.224 |
New York Bureau
Fortress' Last Flight
This photo of the gallant Flying Fortress, "Lady Liberty", veteran of
nine bombing missions (note score just below and in front of pilot's
compartment), was taken only a few seconds before flak from a German
anti-aircraft battery blasted the ship in half, over Flushing,
Holland. Here, the ship's pilot, Lt. Ralph R. Miller, of Chicago, can
be seen through the window of the control cabin while, aft, a waist
gunner can be seen at his post.
Credit: (U.S. Army Air Force Photo from ACME) |
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2-17-44 |
77.09.1935 |
New York Bureau
Fortress' Last Flight #3
In its death dive, the forward half of the Flying Fortress, "Lady
Liberty", heads for a flaming finale below, after being blasted in
half by flak from a German anti-aircraft battery over Flushing,
Holland. The ship had been headed on a bombing mission over Germany
with other bombers of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force.
Credit Line ( U.S. Army Air Force Photo from ACME) |
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2-17-44 |
77.09.1936 |
New York Bureau
Two Fighters Take a Rest
ITALY -- Lt. Mary L. Roberts, of Dallas, Texas, chief nurse in the
operating room of an American field hospital in the Nettuno-Anzio
beachhead area chats with Col. Henry S. Blisse, of Chicago, Ill. They
stand in front of the operation tent where suspension makes inside
poles unnecessary.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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2-17-44 |
77.09.1941 |
New York Bureau
Fortress' Last Flight - # 2
Flak from a German anti-aircraft battery has just blasted the tail off
the U.S. 8th Army Air Force Flying Fortress, "Lady Liberty", the
forward section of the ship (right) continuing in flight over
Flushing, Holland. Pieces of the tail section are scattered over
almost entire photo. This unusual picture was snapped from another
Fortress, accompanying the "Lady Liberty" on her last flight--a
bombing mission over Germany. A few moments after the photo was taken,
the wrecked bomber started her final dive for the earth.
Credit Line (U.S. Army Air Forces Photo from ACME) |
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2-17-44 |
77.09.1942 |
New York Bureau
Americans Bomb Cassino Monastery
This photo, flashed to the United States by Army Radiotelephoto, shows
bombs (right circle) falling toward the Cassino Monastery (left
circle), which the Germans have been using as a fortified defense
point against advancing Allied 5th Army Forces. Allies have warned
Italian civilians living in the building to evacuate the Abbey, by
leaflets dropped from exploding artillery shells.
Credit Line (U.S. Army Air Force Photo via Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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2-17-44 |
77.09.2225 |
New York Bureau
After War Passed Through Anzio
ANZIO, ITALY – These shattered buildings at Anzio, through which men
and supplies are streaming toward the Allied 5th Army front
below Rome, bear the grim mark of battle. At right, an American
half-track protects the road from German air attacks. Today, the
Allies are fighting bitterly to stem Nazi counter-attacks in the
Anzio-Nettuno sector, and are throwing back each one with terrific
losses to the enemy.
Credit Line (U.S. Navy Photo from Acme) |
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02-17-44 |
77.09.2815 |
New York Bureau
“One-Colt Shay”
New Guinea – Here is the modern version of the famous “One Horse Shay”
– But it is put together to stay, by mechanics at this advanced U.S. 5th
Army Air Force base “somewhere in New Guinea,” and made of bicycle
wheels, airstrip matting, and an old parachute harness. The colt,
named “Tarzan”, draws the sulky, giving Sgt. Taylor Tyra (right), of
Louisville, KY., the airfield’s cook; and Pfc. Harley Janisch, of
Montello, Wisc., a ride. The boys pass a Mitchell B-25 strafing
bomber, on their way to take a swim.
Credit Line (ACME photo by Thomas L. Shafer for the War Picture Pool) |
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2-18-44 |
77.09.4074 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Hasn’t Lost His Touch
Somewhere in England - Inspecting an Infantry Unit somewhere in
England, General Dwight D. Eisenhower shows his men that he hasn’t’
lost his Doughboy touch. Using a Browning Machine Gun - off its mount
- he shoots from his hip.
Credit: ACME photo via Army Radiotelephoto |
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2-18-44 |
77.09.4076a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Liberator in Trouble
Somewhere in England - Returning to its base somewhere in England, a
Liberator Bomber crash-lands and catches fire. Piloted by Lt. Claude
E. White of Tushka, Okla., the ship came in with only one wheel and
the propeller of its #4 engine was knocked off as it hit the ground.
Flames were soon doused by the station’s ground forces.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo via U.S. Army Signal Corps
Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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2-19-44 |
77.09.2493 |
New York Bureau
CONFERS WITH BRITISH IN YUGOSLAVIA
SOMEWHERE IN YUGOSLAVIA—General Draja Mihailovitch (center), leader of
Chetnik soldiers who is minister of War to King Peter’s
government-in-exile, confers with two British liaison officers,
“somewhere in Yugoslavia.” Photo flashed from Stockholm to New York,
today.
Credit (ACME Radiophoto) |
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2-19-44 |
77.09.2496 |
New York Bureau
YANKS BOMB MONASTERY
CASSINO, ITALY—Here is a view of an American raid on the St.
Benedictine Monastery at Cassino after Nazi forces had converted the
ancient house of worship into a fortress to halt the advance of the
Allied Fifth Army. B-25 bombers of the Allied Air Forces and Fifth
Army artillery blasted the religious structure.
Credit (U.S. Army Photo via Radiotelephoto—ACME) |
