Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 127
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.2189 |
ROME, ITALY – Anti-fascist Romans acted swiftly following the
liberation of Rome by Allied troops, rounding up known Fascist Leaders
in the area around the Eternal City and to bring them in for trial.
Here, on captive, (second from right, in foreground), folds his hands
in a pleading gesture, his face screwed up into a tearful expression
as he protests his innocence.
Credit Line (U.S. Army Photo from Acme) |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4504a |
New York Bureau
Supplies, Supplies, Supplies
France – There’s scarcely an inch of beachhead space that doesn’t hold
some sort of equipment for fighting men, as the endless chain of
supplies streams across the Channel to our soldiers in France.
Fighting men check the vast amount of food and weapons dumped on this
Normandy beach.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4505ab |
New York Bureau
They Fought for Hitler
Somewhere in France – Not all of the German Army prisoners taken on
the battlefields of France are stalwart, blonde Aryans who were born
to rule the world. Not quite so exclusive these days, the “Herrenvolk”
is hob-nobbing with men of all races—anyone, as a matter of fact, who
can carry a gun for Adolf. Among the prisoners captured in France
were: (left to right) front row: a Yugoslav; an Italian; a Turk; a
Pole; (back row) a German; a Czech; a Russian who was forced into the
army when the Nazis occupied his town; and a Mongol.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4506a |
New York Bureau
Captured with Nazis
France – Visible among the faces of these men, captured by the Allied
liberation forces in Normandy, are Chinese and Mongolian types.
Reports from Allied Headquarters indicate that Japanese also were
among those fighting for the Nazis. At least, these men, (above), seem
happy that they no longer have to fight for the German “Super Race.”
Passed by censors.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt for War Picture Pool |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4507a |
New York Bureau
Floating Kitchen
France – A converted barge that once sailed up and down the Thames,
this floating mess hall was the first Landing Barge Kitchen to reach
the Normandy beachhead. Purpose of the vessel is to supply hot meals
to the crews of small craft now doing their hundred-and-one jobs in
the Channel, which range from ferrying men and supplies to laying
smoke screens for air attacks. Here crews of the small craft line up
for their noon meal.
Credit: British official photo from Acme |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4508ab |
New York Bureau
Fighter’s Reward
France – These Allied soldiers along the “liberation beachhead”
receive their first mail from home since landing in France, which they
read avidly during a moment’s lull in the fighting.
Credit: British War Office photo via Army radiotelephoto from Acme |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4509a |
New York Bureau
Remains of German Flak Boat
France – Amid the floating debris of war, a German flak boat lies
where troops of the Armies of Liberation found her, in the harbor at
Port-en-Ressin, France. Blasted buildings along the shore show
evidence of the power of the naval barrages that supported the
invasion troops.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from Acme |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4510a |
New York Bureau
”We Are the Dead . . . .”
Somewhere in France – Parachute shrouds cover the faces of eight
airborne infantrymen who lie beside the wreckage of their glider on
French soil. The sky fighters were killed during landing operations in
France.
Credit: British official photo via U.S. Signal Corps Radiotelephoto
from Acme |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4511ab |
New York Bureau
Young Frenchman Finds a Friend
Somewhere in France – A Canadian fighting man squats to chat with a
young French refugee in the battle area of Normandy. The little boy
and the old woman behind him were among many hungry refugees who had
not eaten for three days before they were fed by the Civil Affairs
Department of the Allied Forces.
Credit: British official photo from ACME |
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6-15-44 |
77.09.4515a |
New York Bureau
Heavy Stuff for Beachhead
England – A huge U.S. gun is backed up the landing ramp of an LST at
“a British port”, headed for use on the Allies’ “liberation beachhead”
in Normandy. At the top of the ramp a man directs the driver by hand
signals. A hint that the Allies expect to capture a deep sea
port—possibly Cherbourg—shortly, is indicated by this photo, flashed
to the U.S. by radio today. Modern docking facilities would be needed
to unload this “heavy stuff.”
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-16-44 |
77.09.2190.a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
German Rocket Bomb Allegedly Attacks Sweden
The caption accompanying this photo, radioed today from Stockholm,
identifies this Nazi secret weapon as a rocket bomb, apparently radio
steered. In the photo of the tail assembly there are 18 holes, exhaust
vents for the rocket gases that propelled the bomb. However, there is
also evidence of a battery driven electric motor, suggesting that both
methods of propulsion may have been used in the alleged attack on
Kalmar, southern Sweden.
Credit (Acme Radiophoto) |
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6-16-44 |
77.09.2192 |
New York Bureau
Coney Island in Italy
ITALY – In a scene similar to the one enacted with regularity at Coney
Island, Yank troops of the Fifth Army get a touch of home as they
lounge on a beach in Italy. A swing band plays for the boys on request
and no regulations are placed on swimsuit style. Some come dressed G.I.
and others in the oldest of bathing wear. New Yorkers, working in the
their offices during the hottest days of the year, can look with envy
at this beach scene. As a reminder that the war is still close at
hand, note the screening smoke in the background.
Credit Line (Signal Corps Photo from Acme) |
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06-16-44 |
77.09.3306 |
New York Bureau
They’ve Delivered Their Sting
Bougainville, Solomons – This mass of empty artillery cases, reaped
one upon the other, tells a mute tale of the ferocity of the allied
attack on Bougainville. Thousands of Japs were killed during March
and April, 1944, when they stormed US Army positions and were thrown
back by rifle, machine gun, and shell fire.
Credit (Signal Corps photo from ACME) |
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06-16-44 |
77.09.3307 |
Radio Telephoto
New York Bureau
Blast Jap Bases in Marianas
Pacific – A bomber of the 7th Air Force flies over a group
of islands, Jap strongholds, in the Marianas on its mission of
destruction. Softening-up attacks on the island group preceded the
invasion by American troops of Saipan yesterday.
Credit (Signal Corps Radio telephoto from ACME) |
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06-16-44 |
77.09.3308 |
New York Bureau
Headed for Trouble and Japs
Burma – Patrolling the jungles for Jap snipers, these four members of
the famed Merrill’s Marauders are grim and determined as they go about
their task. The jungle fighters are (left to right): Lt. Kenneth
Bratlof, Cloquet, Minn.; Pvt. Anthony Callisto, Solvay, N.Y., Pvt.
Sidney Block, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Pfc Harry Brabazon, also of
Philadelphia, Pa. Marauders are now supers jungle fighters and
casualties average one Marauder to fifty Japs.
Credit – WP – (ACME) |
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06-16-44 |
77.09.3312 |
Radio Telephoto
New York Bureau
Air Attack Precedes Saipan Landing
Saipan, Marianas – This air view taken during the bombing attack
preceding landings by US forces shows the seaplane base North of
Flores Point. On the plane ramp are four 4-engined flying boats of
the Mavis type. The harbor is cotted with warships, transports, and a
sub. Heavy fighting continues in the Saipan area, and US forces have
captured Agingan Point and are now battling for the town of
Charan-Kanoa.
Credit line (Signal Corps Radio telephoto from ACME) |
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6-16-44 |
77.09.3650 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Fins Battle Russian Troops
According to the caption accompanying this photo, approved by Finnish
censors and radioed today from Stockholm, these soldiers are members
of a Finnish anti-tank unit at Vammelsuu, where Russian attacks have
been halted in bitter fighting.
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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6-16-44 |
77.09.3782 |
Chicago Bureau
Hero’s Father Gets Medal
Camp Atterbury, Ind.—William F. Craig, Toledo, Ohio, receiving the
Congressional Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to his son 2nd
Lt. Robert Craig for silencing a machine gun nest at Favoratta, Italy,
and drawing enemy fire toward himself so his platoon could take cover
after they were caught in a trap. Maj. Gen. Alan W. Jones, commanding
officer of the 106th infantry division, and Lt. Marvin
Rusch decorate Craig.
Credit: ACME. |
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6-16-44 |
77.09.4516a |
New York Bureau
Suspected Quisling
This French woman, suspected of being a sniper against the Allied
forces in France, arrives in England and is being evacuated to a
Prisoner of War hospital. She was wounded in the hand and body.
Credit: ACME photo via Army Radiotelephoto |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.264 |
New York Bureau
Medical Unit at Work on Airfield
MYITKYINA, BURMA -- Chinese nurses assist Col. Gordon S. Seagraves in
setting up a field hospital for Chinese and American soldiers wounded
during a Jap Zero attack on Myitkyina Airdrome. The airfield was taken
from the Japs by Merrill's Marauders but Jap snipers and strafing
planes returned to cause considerable trouble.
Credit (ACME) (WP) |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.2185 |
New York Bureau
Nazi Messerschmitt Takes a Dive
Not many pictures like this one come out of the war. You are looking
out of an American Flying Fortress at a Nazi Messerschmitt less than
25 feet off the bomber’s wing, just as the fighter pulls away to start
its dive. The photograph was taken by Sgt. Victor LaBruno, Jersey
City, N.J., while he was flying as a combat aerial photographer during
a U.S. Army 8th Air Force attack on the synthetic oil
plants at Brux, near the border of Czechoslovakia. As more than 100
German fighters attacked the formation of Flying Fortresses, Sgt.
LaBruno crouched in the radio room of the B-17 “Lady Godiva” and
caught this unusually near shot of a Nazi fighter. In civilian life,
Sgt. LaBruno was a photographer in New York City.
Credit (USAAF Photo from Acme) |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.2191 |
New York Bureau
Get a Load of That!
ROME, ITALY – Relaxing after the hard fighting which preceded the
Allied entry into Rome, these G.I.’s do a little sightseeing. Here
they are getting an eyeful of the Coliseum in Rome, relic of the days
of Caesar and Cicero. Left to right: Cpl. Randell Herman, Birthright,
Tex.; S/Sgt. Marshall Veal, Oconee, Ga.; Pfc. Malcome Lawson,
Clairmont, N.H., and Cpl. William D. Shore, Chicago, Ill.
Credit (Acme) (WP) |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.2498 |
New York Bureau
GERMAN PILOTLESS PLANE
This is a drawing of the German pilotless plane, which has a span of
16 feet and a length of 25 feet, 4 ½ inches. The section marked “X” in
the third drawing is the propulsion unit. These aircraft have twice
attacked southern England, with heavy death and destruction resulting.
However, the second raid was much less intense than the first.
Credit (British Official Photo Via Army Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.2499.a |
ANTI-FASCISTS HAVE THEIR DAY
ROME, ITALY—With the Allied entry of Rome, groups of rabid
anti-fascists, who had long been forced underground, sprang from their
hiding places, banded together and smoked out known fascists to bring
them to trial and make them pay the inevitable price all fascists must
pay for their lordly ways, their rule with an iron hand, and the
suffering they forced upon the people. Not all reach a courtroom. The
fiery Italian people have made their own rules governing the treatment
of fascists. This series of pictures taken in Rome tell the story of
one anti-fascist organization and the capture of some of Musso’s
stooges.
New York Bureau
Given the chance to speak for the first time in years, this member of
an anti-fascist organization doesn’t hold reins to his words as he
yells his hatred at a known fascist captured in a tobacco shop. His
pistol is ready to bark death if his prisoner makes one false move.
Anti-fascists blew up a tobacco shop and took three of Musso’s stooges
prisoner. Not all were taken to trial.
Credit-WP-(ACME) |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.2500.a |
ANTI-FASCISTS HAVE THEIR DAY
ROME, ITALY—With the Allied entry of Rome, groups of rabid
anti-fascists, who had long been forced underground, sprang from their
hiding places, banded together and smoked out known fascists to bring
them to trial and make them pay the inevitable price all fascists must
pay for their lordly ways, their rule with an iron hand, and the
suffering they forced upon the people. Not all reach a courtroom. The
fiery Italian people have made their own rules governing the treatment
of fascists. This series of pictures taken in Rome tell the story of
one anti-fascist organization and the capture of some of Musso’s
stooges.
New York Bureau
Captured in a tobacco shop along with two of his partners, this known
fascist feebly tries to push aside the barrel of a rifle pointed
threateningly at his chest by an Italian patriot. Groups of
anti-fascists prowl through the streets of Rome now that the Allies
occupy the city and mete out their own idea of a proper punishment to
any fascist they can smoke out. Some are taken to trial where their
fate is decided. Some never reach a courtroom. The anti-fascists in
Italy can now pay back in full measure for the years they suffered
under fascistic rule.
Credit-WP-(ACME) |
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