Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 105
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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02-19-44 |
77.09.2865 |
Yanks Raid Jap Base at Dagua
Dagua, New Guinea - - Parachute bombs drift down toward Jap Zeros
parked on Dagua airfield and smoke rises from the besieged area as
B-25 Mitchell bombers of the Fifth Air force stage a surprise raid on
the enemy base. The smoke is coming from an oil dump fire which was
started by an earlier wave of bombers. The Japs were caught
completely unaware.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME) |
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02-19-44 |
77.09.2866 |
New York Bureau
To Their Ancestors
Kwajalein Atoll – Coast Guard Ensign Robert C. Preston of New London,
Conn., stops to look at the bodies of two Japanese imperial Marines on
Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshalls. The enemy fighters lie stiffly
before their silenced pillbox in which 23 more dead Japs were found.
Credit Line (U.S. Coast Guard photo from ACME) |
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02-19-44 |
77.09.2867 |
New York Bureau
Where Stars Outshone the Rising Sun
Namur Island - - The stars and stripes over the battered, former Jap
headquarters proclaim complete U.S. victory over Namur island. What
is left of a Japanese bomber (foreground) rests amidst rubble and bits
of blased concrete.
Credit (U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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2-19-44 |
77.09.3691a |
New York Bureau
Special Delivery to Davy Jones
Engebi Island—A Jap medium size freighter is caught in an exploding
net of bomb bursts, as Navy carrier planes send enemy supplies to the
bottom of the sea, off Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls.
On a return trip to the Northwest Marshall Island Group, Navy fliers
softened Eniwetok as Army and Marine assault troops stormed ashore.
Credit: US Navy photo from ACME. |
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2-19-44 |
77.09.3692a |
New York Bureau
He Lived to Serve
England—When his fort, the “Jersey Bounce Jr.” was limping home from a
raid over Europe and he was too badly wounded to be of further service
to his buddies, T/Sgt Forrest Vosler of Livonia, NY, begged to be
thrown from the plane to rid the warbird of extra weight to be carried
back to its base in England. His buddies refused to sacrifice him, and
the plane crashed into the English Channel. Then, blinded and
bleeding, the heroic sergeant saved the life of the crew’s rear
gunner, holding onto him until help came. Sgt Vosler, shown fourth
from left with the crew after the rescue, has been recommended for the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
Credit: US Army photo via radiotelephoto—ACME. |
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2-19-44 |
77.09.3693a |
Clubmobile Gals
Somewhere in England—Based at a large, 15th century mansion
owned by an English Earl and his Countess, four American Red Cross
girls staff a Clubmobile bus, one of 51 such mobile canteens operating
in the British Isles. Katharine Spaatz, 22-year old daughter of Lt.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, is one of them. Pounding their “beat” of several
camps and airfields within easy riding distance of their base every
week, the girls hand out doughnuts and coffee and generally serve as
morale boosters for their G.I. customers. This series shows the
quartette at their jobs.
New York Bureau
The Clubmobile’s first stop is a flying fortress base, and girls put
on recordings as their “bus” drives up. Music blaring from the
loudspeakers, fore and aft, draw Yanks to the “wagon” for coffee,
doughnuts, smokes, and chatter. Two girls serve the men while the
other two busy themselves inside.
Credit: ACME. |
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2-19-44 |
77.09.3694a |
Clubmobile Gals
Somewhere in England—Based at a large, 15th century mansion
owned by an English Earl and his Countess, four American Red Cross
girls staff a Clubmobile bus, one of 51 such mobile canteens operating
in the British Isles. Katharine Spaatz, 22-year old daughter of Lt.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, is one of them. Pounding their “beat” of several
camps and airfields within easy riding distance of their base every
week, the girls hand out doughnuts and coffee and generally serve as
morale boosters for their G.I. customers. This series shows the
quartette at their jobs.
New York Bureau
Here are the girls who man the Clubmobile (left to right): Dorothy
“Mike” Myrick, 24, of Whiting, Ind; Katharine “Tatty” Spaatz, 22,
“homeless” daughter of the Air Forces; Julia “Dooly” Townsend, 28, New
York City; Virginia “Ginny” Sherwood, captain of the crew, 24, of
Portland, Ore. The girls have named their mobile canteen the “North
Dakota.”
Credit: ACME. |
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2-19-44 |
77.09.3695a |
Clubmobile Gals
Somewhere in England—Based at a large, 15th century mansion
owned by an English Earl and his Countess, four American Red Cross
girls staff a Clubmobile bus, one of 51 such mobile canteens operating
in the British Isles. Katharine Spaatz, 22-year old daughter of Lt.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, is one of them. Pounding their “beat” of several
camps and airfields within easy riding distance of their base every
week, the girls hand out doughnuts and coffee and generally serve as
morale boosters for their G.I. customers. This series shows the
quartette at their jobs.
New York Bureau
“She’s a perfect 42, fellas,” this mechanic teases Dorothy Myrick as
the boys measure her waist at a Flying Fortress repair depot. The Red
Cross girls come in for a lot of good-natured kidding from the
servicemen, with whom they become quite friendly.
Credit: ACME. |
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2-20-44 |
77.09.2497 |
New York Bureau
BRITAIN’S CRACK ANTI-TANK GUN IN ACTION
ITALY—This action photo shows the precise moment when the
two-and-three quarter-pound bomb projected from a PIAT gun hits its
target at short range. The target, a German Mark IV tank, is behind
the cloud of smoke in background. A new weapon, the PIAT (Projector
Infantry Anti-tank) gun can be used with deadly efficiency against
concrete pillboxes and machine gun nests as well as tanks.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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02-20-44 |
77.09.2864 |
New York Bureau
View of Truk
The old Japanese cruiser “Yodo” is shown at anchor in one of the
numerous harbors at Truk. This photo was made during the pre-war
period when the Japs were fortifying the archipelago and building what
they thought would be an impregnable fortress. They discovered how
wrong they were when a powerful U.S. Navy Task force hurled
destruction into the mountain-studded lagoon.
Credit Line (official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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2-20-44 |
77.09.3933.ab |
Bombing Junkers Repair Shops
Villacoublay, France – A cluster of bombs whizzes down toward Junkers
Repair Shops at Villacoublay during the Allied raid of February 5th.
Below, bombs that have already found their mark begin to send up puffs
of smoke as our Airmen blanket the area with high explosives.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo via OWI from ACME |
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2-20-44 |
77.09.4075a |
New York Bureau
They Got Home!
England - These boys had to jettison everything, including the Ball
Turret, to get their Flying Fortress home after two engines had been
knocked out by flak during a raid over Frankfort. Left to right: 2nd
Lt. William C. Johnson, pilot, of Lewis Chapel, Tenn.; Ball Turret
Gunner Sgt. David E. Cameron, Boothwin, PA; Radio Operator S/Sgt Ruben
Kisner, Doylestown, PA; Bombardier 2nd Lt. James P. Cain,
Barnum, IA; Navigator 2nd Lt. William C. Gray, Wilkes Boro,
N.C.; Co-Pilot 2nd Lt. Matt Farmer, Mankato, Minn.; Tail
Gunner Sgt. Ed. J. Skiba, Aliquippa, PA; Top Turret Gunner S/Sgt
Robert D. Cavanaugh, San Antonio, Texas; (and in window) Right Waist
Gunner Sgt. Raymond G. Calvert, Detroit, Mich.; and Left Waist Gunner
Sgt. Glenn E. Bratcher, Lamesa, Texas.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo via OWI - ACME |
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2-22-44 |
77.09.3058 |
New York Bureau
Joke’s On Them
RUSSIA—A German soldier can afford to smile as he discovers that a
Russian “tank” is a dummy fashioned of wood and canvas. According to
the Nazis, who wish that all Russian war machines were made of similar
substance, whole fields of the dummy tanks were discovered at
Pogrebichtche. Radioed from New York to Stockholm today.
Credit: ACME |
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2-22-44 |
77.09.4077a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Britain’s Midget Submarine
England - A crewman looks out of the conning tower of a tiny, British
three-man submarine of the type that helped wound the mighty German
warship Tirpitz last fall. Small and deadly, the sub can penetrate
shallow channels, sneaking up into an enemy vessel’s hiding place.
Credit: ACME Radiophoto |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.2209.a |
10,000 Homeless on a Single Farm
ITALY – The 14,000-acre farm of Prince Stephano Borghese is proving a
welcome, if highly uncomfortable haven for approximately 10,000
Italian civilians who where ordered from Anzio and Nettuno by Hitler,
last November 1. Planning to use the beautiful seaside towns as rest
centers for German troops, Hitler drove out the natives who were
allowed only the possessions they could carry. Prince Borghese, head
of an old and wealth Italian family, opened his nearby farm to the
refugees who now live, for the most part, in straw huts of their own
making.
The Allies have already made violent alterations in Hitler’s plans for
an Anzio-Nettuno rest center, and as soon as possible the civilians
will return to their homes. In the meantime, Acme War Pool
Photographer Bert Brandt shows you how they live.
New York Bureau
More closely resembling the South Pacific than “civilized” Europe is a
group of the makeshift community dwellings. Many of the women who
scrub the family wash in crude buckets were once mistresses of their
own beautiful homes.
Credit (Acme Photo by War Pool correspondent, Bert Brandt) |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.2210.a |
10,000 Homeless on a Single Farm
ITALY – The 14,000-acre farm of Prince Stephano Borghese is proving a
welcome, if highly uncomfortable haven for approximately 10,000
Italian civilians who where ordered from Anzio and Nettuno by Hitler,
last November 1. Planning to use the beautiful seaside towns as rest
centers for German troops, Hitler drove out the natives who were
allowed only the possessions they could carry. Prince Borghese, head
of an old and wealth Italian family, opened his nearby farm to the
refugees who now live, for the most part, in straw huts of their own
making.
The Allies have already made violent alterations in Hitler’s plans for
an Anzio-Nettuno rest center, and as soon as possible the civilians
will return to their homes. In the meantime, Acme War Pool
Photographer Bert Brandt shows you how they live.
New York Bureau
Their amusements and means of livelihoods snatched away, sitting in
the sun is one of the favorite pastimes of Campana refugees. Shown
here are some of the members of three families who inhabit this hovel.
Credit Line (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent) |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.2211.a |
10,000 Homeless on a Single Farm
ITALY – The 14,000-acre farm of Prince Stephano Borghese is proving a
welcome, if highly uncomfortable haven for approximately 10,000
Italian civilians who where ordered from Anzio and Nettuno by Hitler,
last November 1. Planning to use the beautiful seaside towns as rest
centers for German troops, Hitler drove out the natives who were
allowed only the possessions they could carry. Prince Borghese, head
of an old and wealth Italian family, opened his nearby farm to the
refugees who now live, for the most part, in straw huts of their own
making.
The Allies have already made violent alterations in Hitler’s plans for
an Anzio-Nettuno rest center, and as soon as possible the civilians
will return to their homes. In the meantime, Acme War Pool
Photographer Bert Brandt shows you how they live.
New York Bureau
Some of the beautiful homes which the townspeople were ordered to
evacuate look out over the water, lining the beach between Anzio and
Nettuno. Now, the onetime residents of these houses are jammed into
thatched huts that have no conveniences.
Credit (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Photographer) |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.2212.a |
10,000 Homeless on a Single Farm
ITALY – The 14,000-acre farm of Prince Stephano Borghese is proving a
welcome, if highly uncomfortable haven for approximately 10,000
Italian civilians who where ordered from Anzio and Nettuno by Hitler,
last November 1. Planning to use the beautiful seaside towns as rest
centers for German troops, Hitler drove out the natives who were
allowed only the possessions they could carry. Prince Borghese, head
of an old and wealth Italian family, opened his nearby farm to the
refugees who now live, for the most part, in straw huts of their own
making.
The Allies have already made violent alterations in Hitler’s plans for
an Anzio-Nettuno rest center, and as soon as possible the civilians
will return to their homes. In the meantime, Acme War Pool
Photographer Bert Brandt shows you how they live.
New York Bureau
Life becomes “complicated” when 50 people live in the same room,
according to these refugees who should know what they are talking
about. Straw covers the floor of the onetime stable where the families
sleep or just sit around and talk, as they do here.
Credit (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent) |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.2213.a |
10,000 Homeless on a Single Farm
ITALY – The 14,000-acre farm of Prince Stephano Borghese is proving a
welcome, if highly uncomfortable haven for approximately 10,000
Italian civilians who where ordered from Anzio and Nettuno by Hitler,
last November 1. Planning to use the beautiful seaside towns as rest
centers for German troops, Hitler drove out the natives who were
allowed only the possessions they could carry. Prince Borghese, head
of an old and wealth Italian family, opened his nearby farm to the
refugees who now live, for the most part, in straw huts of their own
making.
The Allies have already made violent alterations in Hitler’s plans for
an Anzio-Nettuno rest center, and as soon as possible the civilians
will return to their homes. In the meantime, Acme War Pool
Photographer Bert Brandt shows you how they live.
New York Bureau
Three families sit down to their noon meal a mound of corn-meal
Polenta which is spread on the center of the table, due to a shortage
of tableware. The bicycle of one refugee hangs on the wall in a
corner.
Credit (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent) |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.2486 |
New York Bureau
THEIR SHIPPING DAYS ARE DONE
ACCIARELLA, ITALY—Three hatless German snipers (left), who were
rounded up by members of an American paratrooper unit, which had
suffered casualties from snipers in the Acciarella area. The
Paratroopers at right, carries bayonets and cartridge belts taken from
the Germans. The third sniper from left, wears a Red Cross arm band,
but when captured carried a gun which had been fired. Another sniper
shows a bandaged jaw.
Credit Line (U.S. Signal Corps Photo from ACME) |
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02-24-44 |
77.09.2878 |
New York Bureau
Yanks Batter Jap Mariana Bases
The first American attack on the Mariana islands, Jap bases 1,300
miles South of Tokyo, was made by a powerful Pacific fleet task force,
last Feb 22. The target of U.S. carrier-based torpedo and dive
bombers were Saipan and Tinian islands, at the Southern end of the
Marianas. In this photo, taken before World War two, and just
released in Washington, railroad tracks lead to a Jap sugar refinery
at Sunharon, on Tinian island.
Credit Line (U.S. Navy official photo from ACME) |
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02-24-44 |
77.09.2881 |
New York Bureau
Nip Truck Nipped
New Guinea – This Jap barge attempted to sneak down the North coast of
New Guinea, covered with camouflage and moving close to overhanging
trees ashore, but Australian Beaufighters spotted the ship and blastd
it. Here, it is aflame from stem to stern after bombs of the Royal
Australian Air Force had caught her.
Credit Line (R.A.A.F. photo via U.S. Army Air Forces from ACME) |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.3799 |
New York Bureau
“Shangri-La Goes to Sea”
Norfolk, Va.—Jugs cluster about the 27,000-ton aircraft carrier
“Shangri-La” after the flat-top was launched at the Norfolk Navy Yard
where it was built at a cost of 866,000,000. Tokyo remembers the
mythical airbase “Shangri-La” which turned out to be the U.S. carrier
“Hornet,” and will be hearing from the new floating threat.
Credit: ACME. |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.3800 |
ACME Photo Washington Bureau
Col. Keith Compson, left, commanding officer of a B-24 heavy
bombardment group now operating in the Mediterranean theater, and
Capt. Daniel B. Orr, right, operations officer in the group, who
combined have compiled a record of almost 700 hours of operational
combat flying, are shown during a press conference at the Pentagon
Building today. Col Compton, 28, is of St. Joseph, Mo., and Capt. Orr
who is 24, is from Graham, Texas.
Credit: ACME. |
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2-24-44 |
77.09.3801 |
Chicago Bureau
Identical Twins Get Identical Leave
Chicago—Identical twins with comparable rank got identical leave from
Army and Navy and returned to their home in Chicago to see each other
for the first time in three years. Capt. Richard Cook (left) of the
Army medical corps has been stationed in Camp Hahn, Calif., and is en
route to a new assignment. Lt. Robert Cook was on a boat in Pearl
Harbor at the time of the Jap sneak attack and has been in the Pacific
since that time. Only change they noted at their reunion is that
Robert has lost some hair and Richard has put on some weight.
Credit: ACME. |
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