Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 129
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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6-20-44 |
77.09.784 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
They’re Closer, Now!
France—U.S. Infantrymen head for action below Cherbourg, passing a
sign giving the distance to the important city, as 29 kilometers
(about 18 miles). Photo was flashed to the U.S. today, when it was
announced that U.S. forces are only three and a half miles from the
important channel port, and closing in fast.
Credit: Army radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-20-44 |
77.09.2326 |
RADIO-TELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
THE WAR REACHES ELBA
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Wrecked German vehicle attests to the destruction
wrought by Naval rocket barrages in the town of Marina Di Campo, in
Elba. 1,800 enemy troops were captured by French Colonials in the
downfall of the island.
Credit: Signal Corps Radio-Telephoto from Algiers via Acme |
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06-20-44 |
77.09.3197.a |
China – While many of their own suffer from the lack of
food, China, nevertheless, has mobilized its agricultural resources to
see that the American air and ground crews under Maj. Gen. Claire
Chennault and comprising the 14th U.S. Army Air Force, are
well fed. Their supplies limited almost solely to fuel, parts and
equipment that are flown over “the hump” by the ATC planes because the
Japs closed the Burma road, these Yank airmen must depend on food
grown and processed in China, itself. But the Chinese, noble in their
duty to an ally fighting in their own country against their enemy—the
Jap—are responding to a degree far beyond the limits of ordinary
hospitality. Using crude methods, nonetheless effective, the gallant
Chinese are producing foodstuffs in ever-increasing quantities to meet
the needs of constantly augmented U.S. units in China. With the
bombing of the Japanese mainland by super fortresses, China has seen
the beginning of the reward her people have been striving for – the
complete neutralization of Japan as a militaristic world power. It
was through the hard work of the Chinese in building bases and
supplying food for the airmen of the huge B-29s, that this raid was
possible. From these bases in China, it is believed, will come more
and more raids on Nippon and, eventually, the all important attack
preceding the invasion of the Japanese mainland. In this series of
photos made by ACME War Pool photographer Frank Cancellare, Chinese
farmers, their wives, and even their small children are shown as they
labor to make the soil produce more – and yet more food so that the
Americans fighting and flying for them, shall not go hungry.
New York Bureau
Have their definite jobs in Chinese farming, carry sheaves of wheat
from the field to the communal village. Where it will be threshed by
hand.
Credit line (ACME photo by Frank Cancellare for the War Picture pool) |
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06-20-44 |
77.09.3198.a |
China – While many of their own suffer from the lack of
food, China, nevertheless, has mobilized its agricultural resources to
see that the American air and ground crews under Maj. Gen. Claire
Chennault and comprising the 14th U.S. Army Air Force, are
well fed. Their supplies limited almost solely to fuel, parts and
equipment that are flown over “the hump” by the ATC planes because the
Japs closed the Burma road, these Yank airmen must depend on food
grown and processed in China, itself. But the Chinese, noble in their
duty to an ally fighting in their own country against their enemy—the
Jap—are responding to a degree far beyond the limits of ordinary
hospitality. Using crude methods, nonetheless effective, the gallant
Chinese are producing foodstuffs in ever-increasing quantities to meet
the needs of constantly augmented U.S. units in China. With the
bombing of the Japanese mainland by super fortresses, China has seen
the beginning of the reward her people have been striving for – the
complete neutralization of Japan as a militaristic world power. It
was through the hard work of the Chinese in building bases and
supplying food for the airmen of the huge B-29s, that this raid was
possible. From these bases in China, it is believed, will come more
and more raids on Nippon and, eventually, the all important attack
preceding the invasion of the Japanese mainland. In this series of
photos made by ACME War Pool photographer Frank Cancellare, Chinese
farmers, their wives, and even their small children are shown as they
labor to make the soil produce more – and yet more food so that the
Americans fighting and flying for them, shall not go hungry.
New York Bureau
Enjoying themselves as though they were playing a game, Chinese
children bundle wheat after it has been cut by hand. Note ancient
blockhouses, (background), once uses as a defense against neighboring
war lords and bandits.
Credit line (ACME photo by Frank Cancellare for War Picture Pool) |
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6-20-44 |
77.09.3883a |
Radio-telephoto
New York Bureau
The Price of Battle
Washington – A French Chaplain administers the last rites to a wounded
French soldier on the beach at Elba, during the conquest of the famous
island. French soldiers were among the first to feel the effects of
war. At first defeated, they were reorganized, then thrown back into
battle as an important unit of the Mediterranean Forces. Now they
again feel war’s sting and pay the price of battle.
Credit: Signal Corps Radio-telephoto from Algiers via ACME |
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6-20-44 |
77.09.4492a |
New York Bureau
Allied Bazooka Knocks Out Nazi H.Q. Car
France – The bodies of the nine occupants and official papers lay
strewn over the road after a Bazooka shell hit this German
headquarters car enroute across the Cherbourg Peninsula. The American
forces are now within six miles of Cherbourg, and their heavy
artillery fire is bombarding the city.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent, via Signal
Corps Radiotelephoto |
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6-21-44 |
77.09.1442 |
New York Bureau
Another Cap Bon For Germans?
A view of the bleak, desolate stretch of Channel Coast at Cap de la
Hague at the extreme northwestern tip of the Cherbourg Peninsula, to
which beaten German troop from Cherbourg, are retreating. With
American troops in hand-to-hand battle with Nazi “suicide” rear guards
in the streets of the French deep-water port, the entire pressure of
the American advance, is forcing the remaining Germans (approximately
two divisions) toward Cap de la Hague. This bit of seacoast may be
another Cap Bon, where the Allies ground out the last of the Nazi
resistance in North Africa.
Credit: ACME. |
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6-21-44 |
77.09.1446 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
French Mayors Discuss Food
In this photo, flashed to the U.S. today by radiotelephoto, the mayors
of six liberated towns in France as they met to discuss problems of
food storage and distribution with officials of the Allied military
government.
Credit: Army radiotelephoto from ACME. |
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6-21-44 |
77.09.3060 |
New York Bureau
Red Army Continues Finnish Drive
KARELIAN ISTHMUS—In a
swift 60-mile drive up the Karelian Isthmus, Marshall Leonid A.
Govorov’s Leningrad Army yesterday captured the fortress city of
Viipuri. Front dispatches have reported that the Finnish Army is in
complete route and vastly outnumbered. Using horses over terrain not
suited for vehicles, Soviet troops are shown on the march by the bank
of the Sestra River.
Credit: ACME |
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6-21-44 |
77.09.4058a |
New York Bureau
Hit ‘em Where It Hurts
Northern France -- Flying bomb installations in Northern France, the
launching site with ramp (bottom center) and the auxiliary buildings,
are blasted by an attack by the RAF.
Credit: British Air Ministry photo from ACME |
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6-21-44 |
77.09.4059a |
New York Bureau
Germany’s Latest
England -- British fighter pilots examine a German flying bomb that
was shot down in Southern England. Note the tail in the foreground.
Credit: British Air Ministry photo from ACME |
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6-21-44 |
77.09.4609ab |
New York Bureau
Captured Jap in Nazi Uniform
France – Fearful of his future, this young Jap, wearing a Nazi
uniform, is checked off in a roundup of German prisoners on the
beaches of France. An American Army Captain takes the Jap’s name and
serial number.
Credit: Coast Guard Photo from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.2561 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
In for the Kill
This photo, flashed to the U.S. today by radiotelephoto, was taken
from a B-25 Mitchell bomber, as it came in to put the finishing
touches on this Jap transport, already smoking heavily and dead in the
water. No sign of life can be seen aboard the doomed vessel and
anti-aircraft guns are not manned. Note starboard life boat blown from
its Davits by a bomb. Lt. Gen. Kenney’s planes caught the ship north
of New Guinea.
Credit: Fifth Air Forces photo via Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4062a |
New York Bureau
Check for Mines in Rapid Advance
France -- A British sapper checks the ground about a smashed bren-gun
carrier in the battered streets of Tilly-Burseulles. Other tommies
march ahead through the town captured recently after bitter fighting.
Credit: British War Office photo from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4063a |
First Aid for French Girl
France -- While her mother watches, a young French girl is treated for
wounds from German shell fire at an American field hospital in France.
A long line of wounded--soldiers and civilians alike--wait their turn
for attention from the Yank medics.
Credit: Army photo from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4064a |
New York Bureau
Montebourg Street Scene
France --
French civilians and American troops work side by side to clear the
streets of Montebourg, France, from rubble left by the bitter battle
between the Allies and the Nazis for the strategic town. Terrific
American bombardment preceeded occupation of the city.
Credit: Army photo from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4065a |
New York Bureau
Valognes, France -- Charges places by U.S. Army engineers topple
damaged--and dangerous--buildings in Valognes after the city was taken
from the fleeing Germans. No time was lost in clearing the streets of
the village, which is near Cherbourg, of shaky walls and rubble that
might be a danger to life and limb. The move is necessary, too, in
preparing for reconstruction.
Credit: Army photo from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4066a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
It’s The Spirit That Counts!
Trevieres, France - The natives in the Norman village of Trevieres,
made these American, French and British (left to right) flags to honor
the Allied troops of liberation marching into their town. Although the
banners are crudely put together (the U.S. flag lacks the proper
number of stars and stripes), it was the spirit of the gesture that
pleased the Allied liberators.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4067a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Preparing For Reconstruction in Normandy
Valognes, France - Hardly had the smoke of battle cleared, before the
U.S. Engineers were busy blasting down dangerous walls, and clearing
streets of rubble. Here, an Army bulldozer forces a path through a
pile of wreckage in Valognes, near Cherbourg. This demolition is the
first step in the reconstruction of these towns liberated by the
Allies.
Credit: ACME photo via Army Radiotelephoto |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4068a |
New York Bureau
Marked By War
France - Gutted homes line the road out of Pont L`Abbe as these
inhabitants of the city leave for a safer area. Nazis put up stiff
resistance before the Allied Armies of Liberation forced them into
retreat from this stronghold.
Credit: ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4069a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Headed For Cherbourg
France - Armed with a Tommy Gun, Signal Corps photographer Cpl. David
Halberg, Cleveland, O., looks forward to the next town on the time
table of the Allied Armies of Liberation - Cherbourg. Halberg was the
first man to enter the town of Montebourg.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-22-44 |
77.09.4181a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
GERMAN SOLDIERS!
FRANCE – Here is one side of a pamphlet dropped to the German
defenders of Cherbourg by allied airmen. Printed in German, the
message does not promise paradise to surrender Nazis, but it does
guarantee fair treatment as becomes a brave enemy, good food, first
rate hospital care, mail facilities, payroll status and opportunities
for furthering education in skilled labors
Credit: Signal Corps radio telephoto from Acme |
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6-23-44 |
77.09.122 |
New York Bureau
Once a City
St. Sauveur, France – All that remains of St. Sauveur is a mass of
rubble and fragments of buildings left standing after the Germans fled
from the town. Civilians who evacuated their homes returned to find
only a wall or two left, and often members of their families lay dead
in the ruins.
Credit (ACME Photo by Andrew Lopez, War Pool Correspondent)
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6-23-44 |
77.09.2624 |
New York Bureau
Yanks Reach Saipan Capital
Saipan, Marianas – This is an airview of Garapan, capital city of
Saipan Island whose entire southern section is now in the hands of the
Americans. Yank troops are now on the outskirts of the capitol and
largest city, whose industries include a chemical plant and cannery.
The large building to the left of Government Pier (right) is Japanese
Administration Building. Enemy counter attack to the right of this
area was repulsed by out forces.
Credit: US Navy photo from ACME |
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6-23-44 |
77.09.3709ab |
New York Bureau
Wounded Warriors
St. Sauveur, France—With his rifle stuck in the ground at his side,
this American soldier receives medical attention after the battle for
St. Sauveur was over, and the town won. In the upper right another
wounded man is receiving plasma with the transfusion apparatus stuck
on his rifle.
Credit: ACME photo by Andrew Lopez, War Pool Correspondent. |
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