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06-27-44 |
77.09.2732 |
New York Bureau
US Bombers Hit at Jap Shipping
Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea – Battle smoke from the harbor of
Manokwari as US bombers from the 5th Air Force attack Jap
shipping. Strafed from masthead-level, the ship in the foreground is
burning fiercely and the two ships in the background are sinking after
direct hits.
Credit (USAAF photo from ACME) |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.3985.a-b |
Washington Bureau
Posies for the Photographer
Bert Brandt, ACME photographer, smilingly receives wild flowers
proffered by two French children on the outskirts of Barneville on the
Cherbourg Peninsula as he advanced with the troops on the drive that
resulted in the fall of the city. On this trip he was accompanied by
Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance war correspondent, who
graphically described the ruin along the route as the Germans fled.
Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.4362a |
New York Bureau
Victory Ahead
Cherbourg, France – This is the scene which met the eyes of the Yanks
a few minutes before Cherbourg fell into their hands. The key port,
their goal during the entire drive up the Normandy Peninsula, lies
just ahead, under a pall of battle smoke. When the end loomed near,
the Nazis demolished almost everything in sight, especially in the
section around the docks, where they took their last stand.
Credit: Army photo from ACME |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.4363a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Yanks Make Tank Tracks In Cherbourg
Cherbourg, France – While Yank soldiers seek shelter in doorways from
German snipers, American tanks move through the streets of Cherbourg
immediately before the fall of the port city was officially announced.
Now that American forces are in possession of Cherbourg, the Allies
have at their disposal an adequate port for the landing of
reinforcements and supplies.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.4375a |
New York Bureau
Where Artillery Caught German Column
Barneville, France – Dead horses and overturned wagons lie in the
ditch of the road from Barneville to Bricquebec, where the retreating
German column of which they had been a part, had been caught be
American artillery fire and wiped out. An American bulldozer, clearing
the road, pushed the wreckage into the ditch. At the right, a U.S.
truck rolls down the road towards Cherbourg, now in Allied hands.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for War Picture Pool |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.4376a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Sniper Hunt
Cherbourg, France – Amid the ruins of Cherbourg, two American soldiers
peer at a window from which a German sniper had been shooting at U.S.
troops. Photo, flashed to the U.S. by radiotelephoto today, was taken
during the hand-to-hand fighting in the streets of the important
channel port after the Nazi commanders had surrendered.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for War Picture Pool via Army
Radiotelephoto |
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6-27-44 |
77.09.4442a |
Washington Bureau
Horses, Too, Were Expendable
On the road to Barneville, Cherbourg Peninsula, wrecked German guns,
dead horses and other equipment lie alongside the road after being
pushed there by American bulldozers who cleared the road for the
advance of the Allied troops that followed in the advance on
Cherbourg. On the right, an American truck may be seen advancing down
the road. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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6-28-44 |
77.09.2614 |
New York Bureau
Prepare to Deliver War Baby
Saipan – A Marine doctor and corpsman carry a pregnant Jap woman to an
aid station where her baby was delivered a few hours later. In
carrying the woman to the prison camp station, these two mercy bearers
were shot at by Jap snipers and had to wait a half hour in a ditch
while Marines exchanged gunfire with the hidden sniper.
Credit: ACME |
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6-28-44 |
77.09.2615 |
New York Bureau
Civilian Prisoners on Saipan
Saipan – Japanese mother and daughter, prisoners of war, are escorted
to the beach under military escort. Captured on the first day of the
invasion of Saipan, these civilian prisoners of war had to wait a full
day before prison camps were hastily erected.
Credit: ACME |
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6-28-44 |
77.09.4377a |
New York Bureau
Herdsmen in Uniform
France – Men of the invasion troops in France have to be
jacks-of-all-trades. Here, near the Cherbourg front, soldiers steer a
herd of sheep away from their bivouac area.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent |
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6-28-44 |
77.09.4378a |
New York Bureau
Rescue
England – After a pilotless Nazi plane crashed on a house in southern
England, its occupants were rescued by firemen and wardens. Here a
woman is carried down a ladder from the house.
Credit: ACME |
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6-28-44 |
77.09.4379a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
First Baby Born In U.S. Beachhead Hospital
France – Believed to be the first French baby to be born in a U.S.
hospital in France, Bieni-Aime Cousnnfeory is shown here with its
mother and father. At the right, is Capt. Kathryn Helm, of Cleveland,
Ohio, Chief Nurse at the hospital on the Cherbourg Peninsula.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-28-44 |
77.09.4380a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
German Commanders Give Up
Cherbourg, France – A German soldier, (left, foreground) holds a white
flag of truce, near the entrance to an underground fortress, as Lt.
Gen. Von Schlieben, Commander of the Cherbourg Garrison, and Rear
Admiral Walther Hennecke, Sea Defense Commander of Normandy, emerged
with others of their command to surrender to the Americans.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-28-44 |
77.09.4440a |
New York Bureau
Invincible—So How Come?
France – Hitler proclaimed this fortress, part of the much-vaunted
West Wall, invincible. Look at it now after Allied shell fire tested
its worth. Before this photo was taken, several hundred Germans
marched from the emplacement in surrender. Inside, victorious Allied
soldiers found vast quantities of food and ammunition.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-29-44 |
77.09.42.a |
New York Bureau
Normandy Casualties Arrive
New York – Thirteen soldiers and one Navy Seabee, all casualties of
the Battle of Normandy, arrived in New York by hospital plane from
England, Mitchel Field officials revealed today. The hero liberators
were taken to the base hospital for a check-up before their removal to
other hospitals. Pvt. George W. James, 21, of Clarksburg, W. Va., one
of the returned soldiers, as a paratrooper landed behind enemy lines
the night before D-Day. He shows part of the ‘chute that brought him
to France to Cpl. Anna Marie Santon, Philadelphia, Pa. James was
wounded by mortar fire.
Credit: (ACME) |
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6-29-44 |
77.09.2622 |
New York Bureau
Bullseye on Jap Supply Dump
A Jap supply and personnel area goes up in a column of smoke on Biak
Island, as Liberator Bombers of the U.S. 13th Air Force lay
down a pattern of bombs on the narrow beach that is the target. Dark
column of smoke causing the deep shadow on calm sea indicates hits on
a fuel dump.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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6-29-44 |
77.09.3713a |
New York Bureau
Enemy Demolition Go Hang
England—A Bailey Bridge, new U.S.-British war creation proving of
immense value to Allied operations and an answer to enemy demolition,
is shown being constructed across a river in England. Parts of the
bridge, built both in the U.S. and England, are interchangeable and
can be speedily put together. It was invented by Mr. D.C. Bailey of
the Ministry of Supply.
Credit: British official photo from ACME. |
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6-29-44 |
77.09.3714a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Bound for Home
Cherbourg, France—Homeward bound, smiling French civilians trek back
to the ruins of their houses in liberated Cherbourg after the vital
city had been occupied by American troops. Although each fears that
his home may not be there when he reaches it, the Frenchmen still
smile, glad that they no longer have to worry about war being fought
on their doorsteps.
Credit: ACME photo via Army radiotelephoto. |
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6-29-44 |
77.09.4242a |
PATH BEATER
An Allied secret weapon is the British flail tank called the
“Scorpion.” The tank is equipped with chains extended from a boom,
which revolve rapidly beating the ground ahead and exploding mines
planted by the Nazis. Moving forward in formation the tanks clear the
way for advancing infantrymen and supporting vehicles.
Credit (British Official Photo from ACME) |
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6-29-44 |
77.09.4372a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Cherbourg Citizens Dig Out
France – Returning to their homes after the capture of Cherbourg by
the Allies, citizens of the French city start the important task of
digging out the debris to start reconstruction operations. The scene
of the most bitter fighting on the Normandy Peninsula, shattered homes
are evidence of the terrific artillery fire from both the Allies and
the Nazis the city was subjected to.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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6-29-44 |
77.09.4373a |
New York Bureau
Death on the Wing
France – A B-26 Marauder, hit by flak over the French coast, literally
is blown to bits, with only the nose of the once magnificent ship
momentarily aloft. Remarkable photo was taken by accompanying plane’s
camera.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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6-30-44 |
77.09.1605 |
New York Bureau
Work of Nazi Arsonists
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—Flames lick at the buildings of the world-renowned
Tivoli Amusement Park in Copenhagen, which was set afire by the Nazi
Schalburg Corps on Friday night (June 23rd). The concert
house is in foreground. This EXCLUSIVE ACME photo, obtained through
the Free Danish Press Service, was radioed to New York, June 30th,
1944.
Credit: ACME RADIOPHOTO. |
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06-30-44 |
77.09.2917 |
Fearful Eyes of the Innocent
Bengal—Fear grips the faces of these Bangal children as they sit in
slit trenches and anxiously watch strafing Jap zeros pass overhead.
Children like these the world over have never know the wonders of
peace being born into maddened civilization brought on by the tyranny
of the axis. Bamboo poles and basketwork support the sides of the
trench offering the native youngsters protection.
Credit (British official photo from ACME) |
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6-30-44 |
77.09.2946 |
DOOM FOR JAP FREIGHTER
NEW GUINEA—Caught off the northern coast of New Guinea by a surprise
attack by B-25’s of the 5th Air Force, this Jap freighter
was soon crippled by bombs and machine gun fire. As it wallowed
helplessly in the water a bomber moved in and scored a direct
hit-spelling finis for the Jap boat.
Credit: USAAF PHOTO FROM ACME. |
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6-30-44 |
77.09.2947 |
JAP CIVILIANS CAPTURED ON SAIPAN
SAIPAN, MARIANAIS—While the Yank in front carries their meager
belongings, this Japanese mother and daughter march down the road to
the beach where they had to wait until a prison camp was built later
in the day. They were captured on the second day of the American
invasion of Saipan. In contrast to her mother’s Occidental dress, the
little girl wears the traditional Japanese kimono.
Credit: ACME. |
