Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 109
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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3-11-44 |
77.09.3552 |
New York Bureau
Hiding Her Shame
Middle East—Hugging a blanket to her nakedness, this embarrassed
little Yugoslav refugee exchanged her rags for American Red Cross
clothing when she arrived at a desert camp in the Middle East with a
contingent of 25,000 Yugoslav partisan refugees. Aided in their escape
from the Adriatic coast and islands by underground elements of Marshal
Tito’s guerillas, women and children in the group were accompanied by
only aged and disabled men. They will be resettled in the Middle East
by British authorities. This is an exclusive ACME photo.
Credit: ACME. |
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3-11-44 |
77.09.3553 |
New York Bureau
Safe At Last!
Middle East—Almost hysterical with joy as they arrive at their
destination—a desert camp in the Middle East—these Yugoslav refugees
laugh happily from the door of a box car. Aided in their escape from
islands and towns along the Adriatic coast by underground elements of
the Yugoslav guerillas, 25,000 of the refugees reached the camp
safely. The group consisted mostly of women and children, accompanied
by a few aged and disabled men. This is an exclusive ACME photo. |
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3-12-44 |
77.09.998 |
RADIOPHOTO
CHICAGO BUREAU
NAZIS HELP OUT IN NORTH WOODS
CAMP EVELYN, MICH. – Several hundred German prisoners from Rommel’s
Afrika Korps have been brought to two former CCC camps in Northern
Michigan near Evelyn and Sadinaw where they will learn the use of the
double-bitted Michigan ax and the two-man saw with which they will cut
pulp and chemical wood in this critical manpower shortage area. Geneva
Conference provisions forbid prisoner of war participation in
hazardous work, so these men will engage in less dangerous, but still
necessary operations. Col. W.H. McCarty, Gov. H.F. Kelly, Michigan
Police Commissioner Oscar G. Olander and Col. S.D. Ringsdorf (left to
right) inspect logs cut by prisoners of war at Camp Evelyn, Mich.
Credit: U.S. Army photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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3-12-44 |
77.09.2215 |
New York Bureau
They Keep Their Eyes Peeled
YUGOSLAVIA – Never daring to turn their eyes from the surrounding
countryside for fear that Yugoslav partisan fighters will catch them
off guard, these Nazi infantrymen dangle their legs from a flatcar as
they begin an uncomfortable journey to new positions. Fighting a
losing battle against Marshal Tito’s guerillas, the Germans are
constantly harassed by the Yugoslavs. Photo obtained through a neutral
source.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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3-12-44 |
77.09.2301 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
GERMAN BACKFIRE
ITALY—Smoke bursts forth from the muzzle and breech of a heavy German
gun in action somewhere in Italy, according to German caption
accompanying this photo received through neutral sources. This rear
view of Nazi gun is symbolic of the way the Blitz turned into a
slow-but-sure retreat.
Credit: Acme |
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03-12-44 |
77.09.2706 |
Beaufighters Strike Swiftly
Burma
Giving off clouds of black smoke, indicating that they were probably
loaded with petrol or oil, five native craft used by the Japs for
river transportation is set ablaze, set by a Beaufighter attack at
Yotahaya a few miles south of Magwe on the Irrawadday River, Burma.
The R. A. F. planes struck swiftly and sharply with excellent results.
Credit: ACME |
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3-12-44 |
77.09.2949 |
PLANNING MESS HALL
MARSHALL ISLANDS—C.P.O. R.C. Wood (left) of Staten Island, N.Y., and
CM l/c O.M. Ferrier, of Fort Worth, Tex., discuss plans for the
erection of a Navy mess hall on Majuro Island in the Marshalls,
recently taken over by U.S. forces with Jap resistance. Both men are
in the Seabees.
Credit: ACME. |
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03-12-44 |
77.09.3285 |
New York Bureau
Mailman Comes to Gloucester
Cape Gloucester – Less than a week after the Marines hit the beach at
Cape Gloucester, their mail arrived. Here hundreds of sacks of the
best morale builder in the world are sorted a short distance behind
the enemy lines.
Credit line (Official Marine Corps photo – ACME) |
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3-12-44 |
77.09.3798 |
Chicago Bureau
Nazis Help Out in North Woods
Camp Evelyn, Mich.—Several hundred German prisoners from Rommel’s
Afrika Korps have been brought to two former CCC camps in northern
Michigan near Evelyn and Sadinaw where they will learn the use of the
double-bitted Michigan ax and the two-man saw with which they will cut
pulp and chemical wood in this critical manpower shortage area. Geneva
conference provisions forbid prisoner of war participation in
hazardous work, so these men will engage in less dangerous, but still
necessary operations.
Photo #2: German war prisoners drink 3.2 beer in the canteen of Camp
Evelyn, Mich. where they can also buy cigarettes, candy, and soft
drinks with the 80 cent canteen script they earn daily in the woods.
(U.S. Army Photo).
Credit: ACME. |
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3-12-44 |
77.09.4272.a-b |
New York Bureau
ZOOMING ACK-ACK
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND—Many Nazi raiders who never lived to tell the
tale met their death in the roaring flame of Britain’s new “Z-gun.”
Anti-aircraft rockets that roar ominously as they zoom upward, this
new “ack-ack” explodes in large and vivid flashes as it tangles with
Luftwaffe planes. Details of the construction and operation of the
“Z-guns” are still secret, but they have already accounted for many
lost Nazi planes in raids over England. The rocket projectiles are
shown as they climbed through the skies during a night raid.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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3-13-44 |
77.09.2219 |
Fighting With Allies in Italy
ITALY – After spending two weeks wiping out Nazi machine gun nests in
the mountainous region north of the Garigliano River, Belgian
commandos return to their temporary base at the foot of Mount Camino,
Italy. The hard-fighting Belgians are battling the Germans alongside
of the Americans and British. Credit Line (Acme) |
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3-13-44 |
77.09.2300 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
ALLIED PRISONERS IN ROME—NAZIS SAY
ROME, ITALY—According to the German caption, this photo, from the
Berlin Illustrieerte Beobachter, shows British and American prisoners
captured during the Nettuno beachhead fighting marching through Rome.
The ruins of the Colosseum are in the background.
Credit: Acme |
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03-13-44 |
77.09.3280 |
New York Bureau
Jap-Busting on Green Island
Solomon Island – Two New Zealanders, Fred Mazengarb (left), of
Gisborne, N.Z.; and William Elmiger, of Tearoha, N.Z. get ready to lob
a deadly mortar shell at the Japs on Green Island, after allied forces
had landed on the island just North of Bougainville, last Feb. 16th.
Credit line (U.S. Navy official photo from ACME) |
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03-13-44 |
77.09.3281 |
New York Bureau
Green Islands in Allied Hands
Washington, D.C: American and New Zealand forces, covered by the U.S.
Navy, land and occupy the Green Islands just North of Bougainville.
This photo, made a right after the landing, is typical of others in
the growing list of Pacific invasions. Overhanging palms and thick
underbrush border the shore where sweating New Zealanders, rifles set
aside for the time, labor in the tropic heat to unload a landing
craft.
Credit (ACME) |
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3-13-44 |
77.09.3771 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Britian’s Super Block-Buster
England—The first photo of the R.A.F.’s six-ton bomb shows the
“super-super-block-buster” in front of a Lancaster bomber that carries
it. The comparable size of the bomb and plane is distorted, since the
six-tonner is closer to the camera than the bomber which has a
102-foot wing span. The gigantic missiles of destruction were used to
blast a Nazi-directed plane engine plant at Albert, France, on the
night of March 2, and a few of them leveled most of the Gnome-Rhone
plane engine works in an earlier night raid.
Credit: ACME. |
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3-13-44 |
77.09.4525a |
New York Bureau
First Photos of French Underground
This photo, smuggled out of France and which just reached the U.S., is
from a movie film made at one of the secret bases of the Maquis—French
guerillas of the Underground who are fighting in the Savoy mountain
regions. This is one of the first photos ever to reach the U.S. of the
routine life of the guerillas before Darnand, the Himmler of France,
launched his main attack on them early last February. These Maquis
have forced the Germans to keep 6,000 troops in the Haute Savoie
district, and are laying a solid foundation of offensive aid for the
coming Allied invasion. Here, at a Maquis base, the day begins with
the traditional French military ceremony of saluting the Tricoleur.
Passed by censors.
Credit: ACME |
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3-13-44 |
77.09.4526a |
New York Bureau
First Photos of French Underground
This photo, smuggled out of France and which just reached the U.S., is
from a movie film made at one of the secret bases of the Maquis—French
guerillas of the Underground who are fighting in the Savoy mountain
regions. This is one of the first photos ever to reach the U.S. of the
routine life of the guerillas before Darnand, the Himmler of France,
launched his main attack on them early last February. These Maquis
have forced the Germans to keep 6,000 troops in the Haute Savoie
district, and are laying a solid foundation of offensive aid for the
coming Allied invasion. Here, former cavalrymen drill on foot at a
Maquis base. For security reasons, and to make food supplies easier,
patriots are divided into small groups.
Credit: ACME |
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3-13-44 |
77.09.4527a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Britain – Crew members of the Flying Fortress “Flagship” gaze at the
Stars and Stripes painted on the side of their ship after their return
to their base “somewhere in Britain,” from the first American daylight
raid on Berlin. The flag on the plane’s fuselage was, therefore, the
first flag to fly over the German capitol. Left to right are: Lt.
William Matetich, of Koppel, Pennsylvania; Lt. Preston M. Dean,
Hartsville, South Carolina; T/Sgt. Adolph A. Alvarez, Corpus Christi,
Texas; S/Sgt. L.W. Bedey (CQ), of New York City; Lt. A.D. Wolfe,
Richmond Hill Long Island, New York; S/Sgt. Thomas Cook, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; and S/Sgt. W. Pickup, of Camden, New Jersey.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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03-14-44 |
77.09.3288 |
San Francisco Bureau
Los Negros Casualty Brought Aboard Destroyer
Los Negros Island, - Wounded in first moments of action after storming
Los Negros island. This soldier is lifted aboard destroyer for
medical aid. Photo by Frank Prist, Jr., ACME photographer for War
Pool.
Credit line ACME |
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3-14-44 |
77.09.3770 |
New York Bureau
Ready to Go
Washington, D.C.: Troops of the British Empire, hardened veterans,
stand on the deck of a U.S. Coast Guard-manned transport, waiting to
go over the side in landing boats during invasion maneuvers. They will
join the United Nations’ mounting attack power in the Pacific, in due
time.
Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo from ACME. |
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3-18-44 |
77.09.2217 |
New York Bureau
German Convoy Caught
OFF THE COAST OF HOLLAND – Sighted by British planes of the RAF
Coastal Command, this convoy of merchantmen bringing supplies to the
Axis suffered a heavy attack off the coast of Holland on March 1st.
Wheeling back and forth over the group of merchant ships, the warbirds
peppered their targets with cannon fire.
Credit Line (British Official Photo from Acme) |
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3-19-44 |
77.09.1712.a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
NAZI AIRDROME GETS A SCIENTIFIC MAULING
LEEUWARDEN, HOLLAND—Her bomb-bay doors wide open, a B-26 marauder
roars over a Nazi airdrome at Leeuwarden, Holland where three paths of
bombs cut squarely through a large dispersal area containing numerous
aircraft shelters. A concentration of bombs has hit a fuel dump at the
other end of the German base while at the extreme left a shadow cast
by smoke rises from still another dispersal area (not shown in photo).
The Ninth Air force medium bombers are continuing to give enemy
airdromes in western Europe a scientific pounding.
Credit: Acme |
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3-20-44 |
77.09.1325 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
ENTERING “CITY OF THE DEAD”
This photo, flashed to the U.S. by radio today, shows a long line of
Red Cross and patrol vehicles, pausing behind the shelter of piles of
rubble, just before entering Cassino, Italy, following the Allied
“obliteration raid”—heaviest of the war—on the town. German
paratroops, landed after the raid, put up stubborn resistance, but
today, all but a section of the southern part of Cassino was in Allied
hands. Note ruined buildings (background in photo) marking the
terrific destruction wreaked by Allied bombs.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiophoto from Acme |
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3-20-44 |
77.09.2218 |
New York Bureau
Into Ruined Cassino
Allied troops press forward on the outskirts of the flattened city of
Cassino, Italy, smashing against stubborn resistance put up by German
paratroopers landed in Cassino after Allied aircraft had bombed the
city in the heaviest “obliteration raid” of the war. Although New
Zealand troops today captured the Continental Hotel, bulwark of Nazi
resistance, fierce fighting continues in the southern part of the
city.
Credit Line (Acme Photo via Army Radiotelephoto) |
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3-20-44 |
77.09.2220 |
New York Bureau
Over the Coffee Cups
ITALY – Leaning against a Jeep, Allies from Texas and New Zealand,
enjoy a cup of coffee “somewhere in Italy.” Left to right, are: Pvt.
Howell Hasten, Lorreta, Texas; and Gunner Ted Boys, of Hellersville,
N.Z.; and Gunner Jim Jenkins, of Christ Church, N.Z. In the foreground
are German graves left by the enemy in his retreat toward Cassino.
Credit Line (Acme) (WP) |
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