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6-23-44 |
77.09.4180a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
NEWSMAN PREPARES FOR THE WORST
AT SEA – Making a personal test to judge how much he will be able to
see during combat action in a storm, W.R. Higginbotham of the United
Press dons Navy “foul weather gear” aboard a warship. Jack Rice
(left), Associated Press photographer, and Tom Wolf of NEA await his
report with interest.
Credit: US Navy photo from Acme |
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6-23-44 |
77.09.4371a |
New York Bureau
Correspondents Dig In – That’s Chow
England – War Correspondent’s who have covered the naval aspects of
the invasion get together at a port somewhere in England for chow with
Col. Ernest Depuis (center) of the Supreme Allied Headquarters staff.
The correspondents are (left to right): Tom Wolf, of NEA; Peter
Whitney, of the San Francisco Chronicle; R.L. Strout, of the Christian
Science Monitor; Fred Sondern, Jr., of the Reader’s Digest; and Marcel
Wallenstein, of the Kansas City Star.
Credit: US Navy Photo from ACME |
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6-23-44 |
77.09.4448a |
New York Bureau
Downed Liberator
France – Smoke billows skyward from the wreckage of this Liberator
which crashed in a field in France after being disabled while on a
bombing mission. Thousands of planes have been forming an aerial
umbrella for the Allied soldiers bitterly engaged in battle with the
Nazis in France.
Credit: US Army photo from ACME |
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6-23-44 |
77.09.4449a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Flight Over Cherbourg
France – A Marauder Bomber from the 9th U.S. Air Force
flies high over Cherbourg after loosing its message of destruction on
the city. Dense clouds of smoke billow skyward from the Nazi Bastion –
the result of successful bombing of German defense positions. Between
25,000 to 50,000 Nazis are trapped in the strategic port as the Allies
get set to close the pincers around this important French town.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-23-44 |
77.09.4593ab |
New York Bureau
War Passed Here
St. Sauveur, France – Standing in an area marked off as “dangerous,”
this American soldier looks at the shattered remains of a tank sitting
on top of the wreckage of what was once a building in St. Sauveur.
American forces have continued their march up the Normandy Peninsula,
and are now surrounding Cherbourg, key port on the tip of the
peninsula, and their ultimate goal. The capture of the port will give
the Allies a good harbor in which to land equipment and troop
reinforcements.
Credit: ACME photo by Andrew Lopez, War Pool Correspondent |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.1494 |
New York Bureau
Lone Fascist Wages Own War
ROME, ITALY—When American Forces entered Rome; they were greeted by an
unseen enemy. One lone fascist sniper opened fire on the soldiers from
the window of an apartment house, but he was quickly nabbed by the
Yanks. Here, a crowd of Italian civilians scurry for shelter from the
sniper’s fire.
Credit: Canadian Official Photo from ACME. |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.1495 |
New York Bureau
Lone Fascist Wages Own War
ROME, ITALY—When the American forces entered Rome, they were greeted
by an unseen enemy. One lone fascist sniper opened fire on the
soldiers from the window of an apartment house, but he was quickly
nabbed by the Yanks. Here American soldiers force their way through a
crowd of curious civilians into the lobby of the apartment house from
which the sniper fired on the soldiers from an upper window. Credit:
Canadian Official Photo from ACME. |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.2438 |
New York Bureau
YANK CASUALTY ON SAIPAN
SAIPAN—An American casualty, wounded in an attempt to storm a Jap
pillbox, is cared for by medical corpsmen on Saipan. American patrols
have succeeded in penetrating to the capital city of the Japanese
Marianas meeting almost no opposition along the way.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.3099 |
San Francisco Bureau
Yanks Move Up On Saipan Front
SAIPAN, M.I.—Along a Saipan road lined with ammunition cases, American
troops and trucks move up to the front lines to reinforce leathernecks
and doughboys engaged in bitter fighting for the vital Jap base. Photo
radioed from Honolulu.
Credit: ACME |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.3100 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Jap Planes – Dead Ducks
Saipan – Damaged Jap warplanes lie useless on the Aslito Airstrip on
Saipan, mute testimony of the work of American fliers who kept these
enemy birds of war out of action. Latest reports state that American
patrols have penetrated into the capital city of the Japanese Marianas
meeting almost no opposition.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.3101 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
In the Wake of Yank Advance
Saipan – Wreckage and dead Japs mark the path of advance Yank troops
have made on Saipan. Almost unopposed today American patrols
penetrated into the capital city of the Japanese Marianas. The entire
southwestern section of the island below the airfield of Aslito has
been turned into a mighty artillery base which continually hurls
shells into Jap positions.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.3102 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Making It Hot for the Japs
Saipan – Using the fearsome flamethrower, U.S. Army Infantrymen
destroy a Jap pillbox position. Yank troops march steadily through the
strongly defended island meeting stiff resistance in most cases but
today, in reaching the capital city of the Japanese Marianas, American
patrols met almost no opposition.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.3103 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Flamethrowers at Work
Saipan, Marianas – US Infantrymen, creeping up on a Jap pillbox on
Saipan, pause while a flamethrower disposes of the entrenchment.
Although the Japs have been putting up fierce resistance, the Yanks
have been making steady inroads into their territory. Today (June 24)
fighting continues in the Garapan Area.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.3106 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Reinforcements Land On Saipan
Saipan – United States Army troops land from an LST to reinforce
Americans battling Japs for possession of this key base in the
Marianas. Yank forces are continuing their advance on the strategic
island yesterday penetrating to the capital city in the Japanese
Marianas meeting almost no opposition.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.4191a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
UNDOING THEIR OWN WORK
FRANCE – Now that their bombing of French railroads to cut off German
supplies and reinforcements has successfully completed its work,
American soldiers, with the assistance of French civilians, repair the
damaged tracks in the American-occupied area around Cherbourg. Having
surrounded the entire city, Yank troops have placed the key port in a
state of siege, and the trapped Germans are fighting desperately.
Credit: Signal Corps radio telephoto from Acme |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.4370a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
German Supplies Sidetracked
France – French farmers salvage grain from freight cars which were
bombed by the Allies. The food was en route to Germany when our planes
pummeled the train. The French civilians, who were kept in an almost
starved condition during the Nazi occupation, are receiving food
supplies from their liberations.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-24-44 |
77.09.4592a |
New York Bureau
St. Sauveur After German Evacuation
St. Sauveur, France – Lying in a valley, this mass of destruction is
all that remains of St. Sauveur, captured by the Allies on the road to
Cherbourg. Driving a wedge across the Normandy Peninsula with amazing
rapidity, the Yank troops have advanced to the outskirts of Cherbourg,
and have an estimated 25,000 or 30,000 Germans trapped within the port
city.
Credit: ACME |
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6-25-44 |
77.09.649 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Hamburg Gets It Again
HAMBURG, GERMANY – Great clouds of oily black smoke drift skyward from
the burning oil refineries at Hamburg. Three attacking Flying
Fortresses of the 8th Air Force, which staged the raid,
wing over the flaming plant.
Credit: (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto-ACME) |
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6-25-44 |
77.09.1289 |
New York Bureau
Fallen Nazi
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE – Pushing ahead through the outer defenses of
Vital Cherbourg in their rapid advance on the key French Port,
American troops came upon this fallen Nazi. Losing his battle before
his fellow Germans admitted defeat in the fight for Cherbourg, the
Nazi lies dead in a ditch.
Credit: ACME, photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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6-25-44 |
77.09.3921.ab |
New York Bureau
First D-Day Wounded Return to US
New York – Lt. Col. Michael C. Murphy grins with genuine happiness at
nurse Lt. Olga Williams after his arrival at Mitchel Field last night
(June 24) aboard an Air Transport Command Hospital Evacuation Plane.
Col. Murphy, a Glider Pilot from Lafayette, Ind., and one enlisted man
were the first of the invasion wounded to return to the U.S.
Credit: Official USAAF photo from ACME |
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6-25-44 |
77.09.4190a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
FREED BY ADVANCING YANKS
FRANCE – When Lt. Briand M. Beaudin (left), West Warwick, R.I., and
Lt. Paul E.K. Lehman, Washington, D.C., parachuted to the ground in
France on D-Day, they were captured by German forces in the District
of Orglandes. Yanks advanced into this area and captured it, freeing
the two airborne infantrymen. Wearing a German hat and displaying a
Nazi flag, souvenirs of his experience, Lt. Beaudin waits his turn at
the wine bottle which the two are sharing in celebration of their
liberation.
Credit: Acme |
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6-25-44 |
77.09.4594a |
New York Bureau
Snipers’ Victims
Cherbourg, France – Helmeted medical officers kneel to give first aid
to a pair of American fighting men who were victims of snipers’
bullets on the outskirts of Cherbourg before the vital port fell to
the Allies. Fighting still rages in Cherbourg although the German DNB
agency says “It is to be assumed” that the key city has been captured
by the Allies.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-26-44 |
77.09.2184 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Bad Shots
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While US and British warships bombarded Cherbourg
as American troops stormed it from the land side, German shore
batteries fire at HMS Glasgow, in an attempt to stop the attack from
the sea. Latest reports state there is still street fighting in
progress in the key port.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from Acme) |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.1583.a |
New York Bureau
A Kill for Rocket Beaufighters
An armed merchantman, part of a large German convoy in the Aegean Sea,
burns furiously from stem to stern after being blasted by
rocket-carrying Beaufighters of the RAF, recently. This new RAF weapon
has been used very effectively against enemy shipping and this is one
of the first photos of its use against German surface craft.
Credit: BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTO FROM ACME. |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.2043 |
Proclaims Iceland a Republic
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND – A tribute to the wisdom of the people of Iceland,
was the complete change of the status of their nation to an
independent republic, recently. In solemn ceremonies in the open air
held on the Parliament Plains (the Thingvellir), Iceland’s
thousand-year-old Althing (Parliament) passed the law making the
change, after it has been demanded by Icelanders. Here, (standing,
left), Gisli Sveinsson (CQ), speaker of the combined houses of Althing,
proclaims the Republic formally established and the new constitution
effective.
Credit: (U.S. Signal Corps Photo from ACME) |
