Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 107
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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03-03-44 |
77.09.2777 |
New York Bureau
First Yank Casualty
Los Negros Island – Hit by a 20mm Japanese shell while he acted as
coxswain of a landing barge, the first American casualty in the
invasion of Los Negros Island, in the admiralty group, is lifted up to
the warship to which he was assigned. Landing from destroyers, the
Yanks surprised the Japs and quickly seized the Momote airship on Los
Negros against negligible enemy resistance.
Credit (U.S. Signal Corps radio telephoto – ACME) |
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03-03-44 |
77.09.2778 |
New York Bureau
Eniwetok Atoll – Flames lick over a Jap who popped up out of his
fox-hole to toss a grenade and was met by a U.S. flame-thrower on
Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. The American fighter seared his torso
with fire and now the flames are eating under his helmet and charring
his face. Nearby, Marines near the command post wait for the fire to
go out.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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3-3-44 |
77.09.3966.a-b |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Soldiers in the Streets
Buenos Aires—There were soldiers in the streets of Buenos Aires again
last week as Argentina’s nationalist military clique, which had
opposed breaking of relations between Argentina and the Axis, staged a
bloodless Coup D’Etat. Here, on Lomas de Zamora Street in a suburb of
Buenos Aires, soldiers guard a field piece, keeping it ready for
action.
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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3-4-44 |
77.09.94 |
New York Bureau
Grass Hut is Home to Him
Anzio, Italy – Playing quietly outside the entrance to the
uncomfortable grass hut in which he and his folks live, this very
young Italian boy is a member of one of many families left homeless
when war came to Anzio. Their original home completely destroyed in
the beachhead battle, the child’s family found refuge in the hut.
Credit: (Official U.S. Navy Photo from ACME) |
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3-4-44 |
77.09.882 |
New York Bureau
Ace Gunners Get Set For a Raid
CBI War Theater—Judged two of the leading gunners of all U.S. bomber
crews in China, T/Sgt. Norton G. Stubblefield, of Dallas, Tex., (left)
and T/Sgt. Adam R. Williams, of Morgantown, N.C., put their 50 caliber
machine guns in top working order before a raid. Sgt. Stubblefield
holds the Silver Star, and Sgt. Williams, veteran of the Tokyo
mission, has the DFC, Silver Star and a Chinese decoration called
“Order of the Clouds.”
Credit: ACME photo by Frank Cancellare, war pool correspondent |
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3-4-44 |
77.09.883 |
New York Bureau
War Lightning Over London
London, Eng.—A weak Nazi raid over London is the signal for a barrage
of bursting shells, pockets and new types of projectiles to be sent up
by the defending British. Flares and flak make a silhouette of the
rooftops and the continental roar of the anti-aircraft barrage far
exceeds the sound of exploding Nazi bombs.
Credit: ACME |
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3-4-44 |
77.09.1219 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
HUNTING FOR THOSE WHO WERE TRAPPED
LONDON – Rescue workers dig through great piles of bomb debris,
hunting for trapped victims of a Nazi night raid over this residential
section of London. Dropping incendiary and explosive bombs among the
homes, the enemy raiders turned the district into a shambles.
Credit: ACME |
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3-4-44 |
77.09.1794 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
THEY GIVE THEIR BLOOD, TOO
ITALY—As if they weren’t already doing their part for the Allied
cause, WACs of the 15th USAAF, stationed in Italy, jumped
to answer an emergency appeal from the Fifth Army front for type “O”
blood donations. First Lt. Elizabeth Ray of Oklahoma City, Okla., was
the first of our girls in khaki to donate her blood. Attending is Pvt
Leo Moyse of Cornwall, England, who is with the British 5th
Transfusion Unit.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps Radiotelephoto |
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3-4-44 |
77.09.1795 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
WOULD-BE CONQUERORS REACH ANZIO, AT LAST
ANZIO, ITALY—Anzio was the goal for these Nazi warriors, who fondly
hoped to march through the Italian town as conquerors. But they came
to Anzio as prisoners, taken in the bloody battle for the beachhead
below Rome. Some try to hide their faces as they march down to a ship
that will take them to a behind-the-lines prison camp. In background
are the ruins of the Italian coastal town.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from Acme |
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3-4-44 |
77.09.4223a |
New York Bureau
CLOSE FORMATION…BUT CLOSE!
BRITAIN—If this B-26 Marauder of the Ninth U.S. Air Force came any
closer, it would be chewing off the tail of the ship before it! The
medium bombers were flying in such close formation that the
photographer in the ship ahead was able to make a clear photo of the
crew at their stations.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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3-5-44 |
77.09.2216 |
New York Bureau
Nazi-Busters
ITALY – Each shell for the Army’s new 240 mm. Howitzer is a 345-pound
headache for the Germans in Italy where the giant field piece is being
used for the first time. Two Pennsylvanians, Pfc. Henry Maracsky
(left) of McAdoo, and Pvt. John A. Rochm, of Philadelphia, examine a
pair of the heavy shells.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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3-5-44 |
77.09.3651 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Advancing Reds Meet Forest Dwellers
Estonia—Estonians, who took to the wild forests of their country to
hide from the Germans, gather around an officer of the Soviet forces
now attacking southeast of Vitebsk, near Pskov and Narva. Fighting is
fierce for Pskov, the Baltic gateway city almost on the borderline of
Russia and Estonia, with the Germans trying to stem the Red Tide along
an intricate network of “hedgehog” defenses.
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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3-6-44 |
77.09.151 |
New York Bureau
Death Dive of a Fortress
With a 400-foot streamer of white-hot flame trailing from its right
wing, an American Flying Fortress hit by German flak over Paris, dives
to its doom in the streets of the city below.
Credit: (U.S. Army Air Forces Photo from ACME) |
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3-6-44 |
77.09.2451 |
New York Bureau
JEEP SERVES AS A HEARSE, TOO
ENIWETOK ISLAND—The versatile Jeep takes on a grim task on Eniwetok
Island. Covered by a tarpaulin, bodies of American dead are carried
away for burial on the island. Soldier at right sadly watches as his
buddies take their last ride.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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03-06-44 |
77.09.3427 |
New York Bureau
Tinian Island Airstrip Bombed
Tinian Island – Japanese planes burning on airstrip on Tinian island,
Jap stronghold in the Mariannas, following attack by U.S. Navy
carrier-based planes on Feb. 23rd. Sugar cane fields form
a pattern around the airport.
Credit line (U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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3-7-44 |
77.09.1423 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Peace-Persuader
Finland—The 600-plane Russian raid on Helsinki, February 26,
“completely devastated a quarter in the central part of the city which
appears to be an industrial area of the Finnish capital. Russia’s
promise of continued aerial bombardment until Finland got out of the
war probably speeded the peace negotiations now in progress. (Photo
radioed from Stockholm to New York today).
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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03-07-44 |
77.09.3284 |
New York Bureau
Navy Planes Blast Mariana Island
Tinian Island – Huge pillars of smoke rise from direct hits on Jap
planes and supplies scored by Navy carrier-based dive bombers during a
raid on Tinian island in the Marianas. One of the planes which
blasted the Japs (left) soars above the orderly squares of the sugar
cane fields adjoining the enemy airstrip.
Credit line (ACME) |
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3-7-44 |
77.09.3795 |
Rescuing Crashed Fliers in the North
Manchester, N.H.—To rescue pilots and crewmen of planes forced down in
Artic or semi-Artic country, the search and rescue section of the
North Atlantic wing of the Air Transport Command has been organized.
Equipped and trained to cover difficult terrain in all kinds of
weather, the base camps of the section are always ready to answer
calls for assistance. This series of photos taken at a search and
rescue section base camp at Manchester shows how a crashed flier is
rescued. While this was not an actual case of answering a distress
call, the instance was carefully staged to follow the procedure of a
typical rescue. Using a dog team and a sled, a rescue team starts out
to locate and rescue the flier who has been forced down.
Credit: ACME. |
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3-7-44 |
77.09.4045.a |
Rescuing Crashed Fliers in the North
Manchester, New Hampshire -- To rescue pilots and crewmen of planes
forced down in arctic or semi-arctic country, the Search and Rescue
section of the North Atlantic Wing of the Air Transport Command has
been organized. Equipped and trained to cover difficult terrain in all
kinds of weather, the base camps of the section are always ready to
answer call for assistance. This series of photos taken at a Search
and Rescue section base camp at Manchester shows how a crashed flier
is rescued. While this was not an actual case of answering a distress
call, the instance was carefully staged to follow the procedure of a
typical rescue.
New York Bureau
Now the Siberian Husky dogs are sent down the rope to lower ground.
When dogs, sled and “injured” man have been lowered, the party (now
augmented by a second rescue party brought to the scene by a portable
radio), sets off for the base.
Credit: ACME |
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3-7-44 |
77.09.4046.a |
Rescuing Crashed Fliers in the North
Manchester, New Hampshire -- To rescue pilots and crewmen of planes
forced down in arctic or semi-arctic country, the Search and Rescue
section of the North Atlantic Wing of the Air Transport Command has
been organized. Equipped and trained to cover difficult terrain in all
kinds of weather, the base camps of the section are always ready to
answer call for assistance. This series of photos taken at a Search
and Rescue section base camp at Manchester shows how a crashed flier
is rescued. While this was not an actual case of answering a distress
call, the instance was carefully staged to follow the procedure of a
typical rescue.
New York Bureau
At a Search and Rescue base camp at Manchester, New Hampshire, an
emergency call is received by radio--a distress call from a flier, who
has made a forced landing. Left to right, are: Maj. Norman D. Vaughan,
of Hamilton, Massachusetts, head of the Search and Rescue section;
Maj. Daniel Maunz, a physician; and Sgt. Charles J. Clifton, of Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Credit: ACME |
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3-7-44 |
77.09.4048.a |
Rescuing Crashed Fliers in the North
Manchester, New Hampshire -- To rescue pilots and crewmen of planes
forced down in arctic or semi-arctic country, the Search and Rescue
section of the North Atlantic Wing of the Air Transport Command has
been organized. Equipped and trained to cover difficult terrain in all
kinds of weather, the base camps of the section are always ready to
answer call for assistance. This series of photos taken at a Search
and Rescue section base camp at Manchester shows how a crashed flier
is rescued. While this was not an actual case of answering a distress
call, the instance was carefully staged to follow the procedure of a
typical rescue.
New York Bureau
After the “injured” pilot has received first aid, he is placed on the
sled for the trip back to the base. Left to right, Sgt. Charles
Clifton, Maj. Norman D. Vaughan, and Maj. Daniel Maunz. The man
playing the role of the injured pilot was not identified.
Credit: ACME |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1088 |
ROCKET TARGETS FOR ACK-ACK TRAINING
CAMP DAVIS, N.C. – Jet-propelled rocket targets are now being used to
train anti-aircraft artillerymen at Camp Davis, giving our gunners
practical experience in firing at “enemy planes” diving at terrific
speed, and preparing them for action against the jet-propelled planes
of tomorrow, should the enemy perfect such planes before the war is
over. Fired from specially designed carriages, the rockets have an
initial velocity of 450 miles per hour or 675 feet per second. They
are released from the range at Holly Shelter, a Camp Davis firing
point. Manning 50 caliber machine guns and 20 and 40mm weapons, the
trainees improve their aim and accuracy as they track the fast-moving,
59-inch targets. The rocket always describes an approximate parabola
and has a maximum horizontal range of about 2200 yards. The following
photos show phases of rocket target practice by night and by day.
NEW YORK BUREAU
Here is a closeup of the launching carriages as the rockets zoom out
of them. Leaving a cloud of bright dust on the ground behind the
carriages, the targets cut a broad band of light in the sky.
Credit: ACME |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1089.a |
ROCKET TARGETS FOR ACK-ACK TRAINING
CAMP DAVIS, N.C. – Jet-propelled rocket targets are now being used to
train anti-aircraft artillerymen at Camp Davis, giving our gunners
practical experience in firing at “enemy planes” diving at terrific
speed, and preparing them for action against the jet-propelled planes
of tomorrow, should the enemy perfect such planes before the war is
over. Fired from specially designed carriages, the rockets have an
initial velocity of 450 miles per hour or 675 feet per second. They
are released from the range at Holly Shelter, a Camp Davis firing
point. Manning 50 caliber machine guns and 20 and 40mm weapons, the
trainees improve their aim and accuracy as they track the fast-moving,
59-inch targets. The rocket always describes an approximate parabola
and has a maximum horizontal range of about 2200 yards. The following
photos show phases of rocket target practice by night and by day.
NEW YORK BUREAU
Streaking upward in thick, white streams, the rockets have barely left
their launching carriages before they are caught in a web of
anti-aircraft fire. Some of the jet-propelled targets have already
been nipped, and their remains fall in thin streaks toward the ground.
Credit: ACME |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1151.a |
ROCKET TARGETS FOR ACK-ACK TRAINING
CAMP DAVIS, N.C. – Jet-propelled rocket targets are now being used to
train anti-aircraft artillerymen at Camp Davis, giving our gunners
practical experience in firing at “enemy planes” diving at terrific
speed, and preparing them for action against the jet-propelled planes
of tomorrow, should the enemy perfect such planes before the war is
over. Fired from specially designed carriages, the rockets have an
initial velocity of 450 miles per hour or 675 feet per second. They
are released from the range at Holly Shelter, a Camp Davis firing
point. Manning 50 caliber machine guns and 20 and 40mm weapons, the
trainees improve their aim an accuracy as they track the fast-moving,
59-inch targets. The rocket always describes an approximate parabola
and has a maximum horizontal range of about 2200 yards. The following
photos show phases of rocket target practice by night and by day.
NEW YORK BUREAU
One man is all that’s needed to load one of the speedy jet-propelled
targets onto the strange-looking launching carriage. One fin fits into
the narrow groove between the railings that form the nose of the
carriage. Here, five of the launchers are loaded at the same time.
Credit: ACME |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1831 |
WASHING BUREAU
ACME NEWSPICTURES
UNITED STATES BOMBS BURST ON BERLIN
American calling cards bursting on targets in the March 6th
raid on Berlin in the second time in three days. Liberators and
Fortresses took part in the raid.
Credit: U S Army Air Force photo via radiotelephoto from Acme |
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