Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 128
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6-17-44 |
77.09.2501.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
With the information that three known fascists were hidden in a
tobacco shop, armed Romans blew out the front of the shop and dragged
out the three men. One rabid member of the patriotic group vents his
hatred in words that need no telling as a captured fascist cringes
before him. Note the arm bands and lapel tags used by the
anti-fascists. Another of the fascists kneels behind the grill waiting
to be brought out. |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.2668 |
Wing of Plane Offers Refuge from Strafing
Makyina, Burma – American Soldiers at Makyina Airdrome, which was
taken from the Japs by Merrill’s Marauders, take refuge under the wing
of a C-47 as a Jap sniper bullet whizzes by. After the capture of the
field, the American and Chinese soldiers were constantly bothered by
Jap snipers and strafing planes. Note the correspondent with paper in
his typewriter, ready to bang out a story, or else caught in the
middle of one.
Credit: ACME |
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06-17-44 |
77.09.3309.a |
Washington Bureau-ACME News pictures (WP)
Tuning Up for the Raid on Japan
Somewhere-In-India – B-29 bombers, America’s newest air armada were
tuned up at a base somewhere in India ad from there started on their
mission to bomb the steel center of Japan on June 15th.
The photos were shipped from India on June 12th and were
received in Washington, June 17th due to the expediting of
the air transport command. This photo shows a B-29 receiving an
engine exchange.
Credit line (ACME photo by Frank Cancellare for the War Picture Pool) |
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06-17-44 |
77.09.3310 |
Washington Bureau-Acme News pictures
Indian Natives Enlarge Airport for Bombing of Japan
Somewhere-in-India, B-29 bombers, America’s newest air weapon were
tuned up at a base in India and from there started on their mission to
bomb the steel center of Japan on June 15th. The photos
were shipped from India on June 12th and were received in
Washington, June 17th due to the expediting by the air
transport command. Here are the native Indian as they worked to
enlarge the airport to provide the additional area necessary for the
take-off of the super planes.
Credit line (ACME photo by Frank Cancellare for the War Picture Pool) |
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06-17-44 |
77.09.3316 |
New York Bureau
Blast Saipan Harbor
Saipan Islands – a bomb from a Navy bomber of the Pacific fleet falls
on Japanese installations at Tanapag Harbor on Saipan island in the
Marianas. Odd design in lower left-hand corner is a dredging channel
and small boat basin. American troops on Saipan have succeeded in
extending their bitterly fought for beachheads and have beaten back a
Jap counterattack.
Credit (US Navy photo from ACME) |
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6-17-44 |
77.09.3781 |
New York Bureau
D-Day Eyewitness in New York
New York—Lt. John Mason Brown, USNR, who left the beachhead at
Normandy last Tuesday and returned to the U.S. by plane, is shown
holding a press interview here. Lt. Brown was aboard the USS Augusta,
flagship of R/Adm. Alan G. Kirk, USN, on D-Day. R/Adm. Kirk is the
commander of the American Task Force Units participating in the
invasions.
Credit: ACME. |
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6-18-44 |
77.09.206 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
The Gun that Failed
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE -- This oversized German naval gun, planted on the
Channel coast of France, was one of many that failed in their jobs of
protecting the Cherbourg peninsula from advancing Allied forces. The
defensive gun was quickly put out of commission by naval and artillery
fire.
Credit (ACME Photo via U.S. Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) |
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6-18-44 |
77.09.845 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Victim of Nazi Trick
France—Treacherous Germans planted a booby trap in the water pump of a
small German village on the Cherbourg peninsula—a trick that spelled
death for this unsuspecting Yank. The ill-fated American lies beside
the wreckage of the pump at which he met violent death.
Credit: ACME photo via Signal Corps radiotelephoto |
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06-18-44 |
77.09.3314 |
Radio Telephoto
New York Bureau
Invasion Briefing
At Sea – en route to the Marianas for the invasion of Saipan, where
fierce fighting is now in progress, soldiers listen to instructions
given them aboard a combat transport. Photo was flashed to the U.S.
from Hawaii.
Credit (Signal Corps radio telephoto from ACME) |
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06-18-44 |
77.09.3315 |
Radio telephoto
New York Bureau
Entertainment for Invaders
At Sea- Aboard a combat transport en route to the Mariana Island group
for the invasion of Saipan, these soldiers are entertained by a joint
Army Navy band. The fighting men are now in the thick of battles now
raging on the island.
Credit (Signal Corps radio telephoto from ACME) |
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06-18-44 |
77.09.3317.a |
New York Bureau
“O-Reilly’s Daughter: Raring to Go
China – The crew of “O’Reilly’s Daughter”, named after the song so
popular with Air Corpsmen, is mighty proud of the success of the raid
staged on Japan by B-29 superfortresses in their maiden operational
flight. Winging over the Japanese mainland on June 15, these gigantic
planes of the 20th bomber command had as their main target
Yawata, important steel center. They also attacked Kokura and Moji.
Left to right, standing; Sgt. William beckham, radar, Albany, Ga.;
Sgt. Rollin Heffernan, gunner, Apollo, Pa.; Sgt. W. Alpaugh, radio,
Rockford, Ohio; Sgt. E. Brandaze, gunner, Pittsfield, Mass.; Sgt.
Grandville Adams, gunner, Messick, Va.; and Sgt. J. Meechan, gunner,
Cleveland, Ohio. Kneeling, left to right: Capt. E. Winkler, co-pilot,
Ogden, Utah, and Capt. Louis Wedel, bombardier, Hereford, Texas.
Credit (ACME photo by Frank Cancellare, War Pool correspondent)
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06-18-44 |
77.09.3318.a |
New York Bureau
Crew of “Superfortress”
China – It has now been established that the new B-29 superfortresses
of the 20th bomber command which rocked Japan recently flew
from a Chinese base. Before taking the bombers on the maiden mission,
crews had been thoroughly trained in manning these super aircraft,
different from any heavy planes manufactured thus far in the war.
Here is one of the crews of a B-29. Left to right, standing on ground
an ladder: Sgt. B. Patterson, gunner, Oil City, Pa.; Sgt. J. Chobot,
gunner, Dearborn, Mich.; Sgt. D. Nebeker, Jr. guner, Salt Latke City,
Utah; Sgt. D.G. Hales, crew chief, Corsicana, Tex., Sgt. J.S. Parto,
Radio operator, Hazelton, Pa.; Sgt. R.B. Moble, radio, Williamsburg,
Pa.; and Sgt. M.P. Plant, gunner, Long view, Wash. Standing in the
center of the ladder is flight officer J.C. Martin (English),
Sweetwater, Tec. Kneeling, left to right; Maj. H.R. Brown, pilot,
Ardmore, Tenn.; lt. W. Stern, bombardier, Rockford, Ill.; Lt. J.
Goeringer, co-pilot, Fresno, Calif.; and Lt. A.C. Beach, navigator,
Morgantown, Pa.
Credit (ACME photo by Frank Cancellare, War Pool correspondent) |
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6-18-44 |
77.09.4317a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Milk Factory
Somewhere in France - Laughing G.I.s hold their cups ready as Private
Robert O’Berg fills ‘em up in a field somewhere in France. Knowing how
to milk a cow is a short cut to popularity in our Armed Forces, for
the fighting Yanks don’t get milk in their c-rations, and they’ll take
all of the creamy beverage they can get.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-18-44 |
77.09.4586a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Supplies That Never Got There
France – Caught by an Allied fighter-bomber on the St. Mere
Eglise-Montebourg road in Normandy, this wagonload of supplies never
reached German lines on the Cherbourg peninsula. This is only a small
example of how the Nazis, who are now using horse-drawn vehicles, are
being thwarted in their attempts to get supplies to their troops.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.762 |
Fifteen Feet Deep and Useless
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE -- Fifteen feet deep, reinforced with timbers, and
flooded as a final precaution, this Nazi tank trap was one of the
reasons why Hitler's horde thought they could sit back and take life
easy -- for the Allies would never pass. But the big ditch, dug about
150 yards from the beach, failed to halt the Allied armies who were
soon way past the trap and taking German strongholds inland by storm.
Credit: -WP- (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool)
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6-19-44 |
77.09.843.a |
Speed Limit-Unlimited
France—Yank troops pushing steadily toward Cherbourg rest beside a
sign pointing to that important port. Speed limit is posted at 30
kilometers an hour (approximately 18 miles) but that doesn’t apply to
Allied soldiers who have now isolated an estimated 30,000 enemy troops
in Cherbourg.
Credit: Signal Corps radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.844 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Home Is Where The Nazis Aren’t
France—Hardened by the war, a French family gives no notice to the
dead German and smashed equipment as they trudge toward their home in
Pont L’Abbe. In particular notice the small children who seemingly
find nothing unusual in the fact that a dead Nazi lies in the street.
Pont L’Abbe was one of the last towns taken by the Allies before
isolating the Port of Cherbourg.
Credit: Signal Corps radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.2180 |
New York Bureau
French Gain on Elba
ELBA, ITALY – Overcoming stiff German resistance, French troops have
made “substantial” progress in their march through the German-held
island of Elba, off the Italian coast. Porto Ferrairo, shown above,
has already been occupied. This town, an iron port, had been worked
steadily to satisfy armament needs. Endowed with a natural harbor, its
capture will simplify the task of reinforcing the battling troops on
the island.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.2181 |
New York Bureau
Allied Prisoners in Rome
ROME, ITALY – This group of marching men, according to the German
newsreel from which the picture was taken, are Allied soldiers,
captured in the fighting in Italy, being marched thru Rome en route to
a German prison camp. These boys may still be prisoners, but the
Germans no longer occupy Rome.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.2596.a |
New York Bureau
Yanks Continue Drive on Saipan
Saipan Island – U.S. Troops on Saipan have driven into the center of
that important island in the Marianas and today engaged the Japs in a
bloody battle for Aslito Airfield, only four hours flying time from
Tokyo. An enemy tank-led counterattack has been beaten off. In this
air view of Saipan the important Aslito Airfield can be seen at lower
right. With the island of Saipan in the foreground and Tinian in the
background, this photo covers a distance of approximately 26 miles.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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06-19-44 |
77.09.3320 |
New York Bureau
Shorn of His Locks
Somewhere in the Pacific – Mrs. Ducy would never recognize her son
Seaman 2/c Bob Ducy, Hartford City, Ind., with all his brunette locks
shorn into one forlorn “V”. Seaman Ducy is aboard an aircraft carrier
loaded with supplies and equipment for a naval station somewhere in
the Pacific.
Credit (ACME photo by Stanley Troutman, War pool correspondent)
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6-19-44 |
77.09.4101 |
New York Bureau
A Good Night’s Work
Carentan Area -- Piled helter-skelter on the ground beside this
well-camouflaged 105mm self-propelled Howitzer, these empty shell
cases represent a single night’s work in the Carentan area. Now that
day has dawned the big gun, placed a short distance from the firing
lines, is ready to take up the fierce barrage where it left off.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.4103a |
New York Bureau
Pilotless Plane Zooms Down
Southern England -- Diving to earth for its vicious attack, a German
pilotless plane zooms through Southern England skies with flame
streaming from the propulsion unit (mounted above and behind tail).
The mystery plane has a 16-foot wingspan and is 25 ft., 4 1/2 inches
long. It was disclosed today that six months of ceaseless air attack
has knocked out so many of these platforms used to launch these robot
planes that the pilotless bombs, when they were finally loosed, went
out on less than one-fourth the scale the Nazis wanted.
Credit: ACME photo via U.S. Signal Corps Radiotelephoto |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.4104a |
New York Bureau
At the Other Side
St. Jacques de Nehou, France -- Yanks who have traveled clear across
the Cherbourg Peninsula tramp in double column through St. Jacques de
Nehou, on the west coast of the Peninsula. Pushing ahead to capture
trapped Germans in the area, the Americans now have Jerry with his
back against the wall. Latest communiqués from the area indicate that
our forces are within seven miles of vital Cherbourg itself.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from ACME |
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6-19-44 |
77.09.4595a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Home and Free
France – As the Allies push steadily inland, the peoples of the towns
already occupied by British, American or Canadian troops start
returning to their homes. This scene was taken in Insigny, France, as
villagers returned to view their shell-shattered homes.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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