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6-30-44 |
77.09.3710a |
New York Bureau
British Advance Near Caen
France—British tanks and infantry advance across a cornfield near Caen,
France to widen the gap torn in the enemy defenses. A great armored
battle is raging south of Caen as British drove on toward the Orne
River. Reports from the front state that the enemy is putting up his
most desperate defense since American troops cut the Cherbourg
Peninsula.
Credit: British war office photo via Signal Corps radiotelephoto from
ACME. |
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6-30-44 |
77.09.3711a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Tanks Charge to Battle
France—British tanks dash across a cornfield in France to engage
German armored forces in what may amount to the decisive battle for
the key city of Caen. German broadcasts have stated that the British
drive represented “a gigantic attempt to cut off and capture Caen.”
Credit: British war office photo via Army radiotelephoto from ACME. |
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6-30-44 |
77.09.3712a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Speeds to Battle
France—A Sherman tank followed by a dispatch rider pass British
infantrymen using a ditch for shelter while holding positions on a
roadside between Tilly and Caen. Headquarters has announced that 60
German tanks have been knocked out in the racing battles around Caen.
Credit: US Army radiotelephoto from ACME. |
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7-1-44 |
77.09.804 |
New York Bureau
Nazis Show Their Colors
France—Defenders of a pillbox guarding a street in Cherbourg, German
soldiers surrender, waving a white flag, after being knocked out of
their position by Allied tank fire. Soldiers in doorway of building at
right keep guns on the ready on the look out for any escape moves.
Nazis carry their own wounded as they move dejectedly in defeat with
their destination prison compounds.
Credit: ACME |
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7-1-44 |
77.09.805 |
New York Bureau
Cherbourg Defense Ends in Death
Cherbourg, France—Lying in a pool of muddy water, these Germans died
as they tried to defend Cherbourg against the terrific onslaught of
American forces. Their death was to no avail, for Cherbourg fell in
inglorious surrender.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt, war pool correspondent |
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07-01-44 |
77.09.2916 |
Stilled Scene of Battle
Saipan – Marines on foot and in a jeep, bypass the charred remains of
an American tank along a road on Saipan. The Leatherneck tankmen
fought a battle with Japs hidden in the concrete building at which the
turret gun is pointing. A gaping hole in the side wall is evidence of
a direct hit by one of the shells from the tank.
Credit (Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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07-01-44 |
77.09.2918 |
New York Bureau
The Old and the New
Saipan—In marked contrast to scenes of death and destruction marking
the bitter fighting on Saipan in which 9,752 American soldiers were
killed, wounded or listed as missing in action, is this peaceful scene
showing two modes of transportation over a thousand years apart.
Marines in amphibious tractor at left are hauling supplies to front
lines while two Leathernecks commandeer a Jap ox cart to move some of
their equipment forward.
Credit (Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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7-1-44 |
77.09.3944.ab |
Gee-Tar Music for French Liberated
Cherbourg, France—A joyous American soldier, with other Yanks standing
around him for moral support, strums on his guitar outside the town
hall in Cherbourg as French civilians, happy in their liberation,
flock around to hum or whistle the tunes. Although they know very
little about the English language, they are eager to learn what our
forces are willing to teach them.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent |
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7-1-44 |
77.09.4433a |
New York Bureau
Nazi Youngster Plays Soldier
France – Hands over his head, this youthful Nazi was among the
thousands captured by victorious Allies in Cherbourg. Only 16 years
old, his boyish face belies the fact that the Nazis have made him a
killer capable of brutalities of the oldest and most ruthless
followers of Hitler. To get children like this back to schools and off
the battlefields is one of the reasons—part of the cause the Allies
are fighting for.
Credit: ACME photo by Andrew Lopez, War Pool Correspondent |
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7-2-44 |
77.09.841 |
New York Bureau
Yanks Take Launching Site
Delassy, France—A pair of American soldiers examine one of the robot
bomb launching sites captured by our forces in France. This launching
platform, not far from the town of Delassy, is reinforced with
concrete and camouflaged.
Credit: ACME |
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7-2-44 |
77.09.3935.ab |
New York Bureau
“Flying Bomb” Site Captured by Allies
Delassy, France – Chosen by the Nazis as a good spot from which to
launch rocket bombs, this flying bomb site was captured by the Yanks
during the Normandy assault. Two Yanks walk toward the heavily
camouflaged control house in background.
Credit: ACME |
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7-2-44 |
77.09.4596a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Duck, Nazi, Duck
St. Lo, France – Unwilling to meet death, or even injury, at the hands
of their own countrymen, the three German prisoners at right hold
their ears and duck as Nazi artillery fire blasts over the hedge
behind which they and their Yank captors are hiding. A fourth
prisoner, who is wounded and has been given first aid treatment, lies
at left.
Credit: ACME Radiophoto |
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7-3-44 |
77.09.1491 |
New York Bureau
Make Way for Allied Supplies!
CIVITAVECCHIA, ITALY—Smoke rises above the harbor at Civitavecchia
after American troops blew up a beached ship with a hearty dose of
TNT. The ship was blocking the harbor entrance and preventing LST’s to
land with supplies. Allied troops are steadily advancing toward the
Pisa-Rimini Line, with French Forces with the 5th Army
capturing the historic city of Siena, and Americans advancing past
Cecina toward Leghorn.
Credit: ACME |
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7-3-44 |
77.09.1492 |
New York Bureau
Hardened to War
GROSSETO, ITALY—War or no war, the domestic duties must go on, and
this Italian Framer, calloused after living so long in the midst of
battle, calmly leads his ox past a dead German lying on the ground
near his farmhouse. Tank tracks in the foreground indicate that his
homestead was probably a battle area not so long ago.
Credit: ACME. |
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7-3-44 |
77.09.2630 |
New York Bureau
P.O. but no O.P.A.
Saipan – Marine Postal Clerks set up a post office in a vacant Jap
building on Saipan. Office is complete to the painted shingle. One of
the Leathernecks commandeered a Jap bicycle but the rubber situation
being what it is, couldn’t get a front tire for the vehicle.
Credit: Marine Corps Photo from ACME |
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07-03-44 |
77.09.2760 |
Gee Whiz! Bananas!
Saipan, Mariana Is. - - The way this goat is nibbling indifferently at
the bananas being fed him by Marine 1st/Sgt. Neil I. Shober,
Ft. Wayne, Ind., just goes to show that the animal doesn’t appreciate
the finer things in life. Sgt. Shober, a veteran of Guadalcanal and
Tabawa, participated in the Marine invasion of Jap-held Saipan.
Credit Line (Official Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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07-03-44 |
77.09.2761 |
New York Bureau
First photo – U.S. – Jap Sea Battle
Philippine, Sea – Swinging in tight circles in a desperate attempt to
ward off attacks of U.S. Pacific fleet carrier-based aircraft, a Jap
heavy cruiser turns counter-clockwise while throwing up a screen of
flak. Directly behind are flares of two bomb hits exploding on
battleship of the Kongo class and a carrier narrowly avoiding
collision. Action occurred between the Marianas and the Philippines
on June 20.
Credit (US Navy photo from ACME) |
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7-3-44 |
77.09.3699a |
Illegible caption |
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7-3-44 |
77.09.4056a |
For release Thursday, July 6
Chicago Bureau
Weasel Joins the Army Parade
South Bend, Indiana -- In secret production for two years at the
Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend, Indiana, a radical war
vehicle is shown for the first time by the army. Known as the “Weasel”
(official name is M-29), it is a low-slung, square-faced personnel and
supply carrier, capable of operating over snow, deep mud, sand or on
paved highways, a greater variety of terrain conditions than possible
in any other previous vehicle. The Weasel’s light weight combined with
broad rubber-padded tracks allows for high speeds on any ground
condition. Pressure on the ground exerted by the Weasel is about
one-fourth that of a fully-equipped infantryman. In winter, over
snow-packed ground and camouflaged in weird black and white pattern,
the Weasel fairly skims along the surface likes its animal namesake.
Credit: ACME |
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7-3-44 |
77.09.4432a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
He Guarded The Harbor
Cherbourg, France – A sailor stands in the sailboat waiting to receive
the stretcher on which is a wounded German non-com. He is being
evacuated from a Cherbourg Harbor fort, where he was stationed at the
time the American forces invaded the port city.
Credit: ACME |
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7-3-44 |
77.09.4434a |
New York Bureau
German Nurses Eat American Rations
Cherbourg, France – These German nurses, eating with the chaplain in
the mess hall of an American hospital in Cherbourg, caused the war on
the Cherbourg front to come to a temporary halt. Captured by our
American forces, they were returned by ambulance to the German lines
while all fire halted in a temporary medical truce. As soon as the
ambulance returned to the American line, the big guns once again began
their bombarding.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from ACME |
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7-4-44 |
77.09.825 |
New York Bureau
Coffins in Wholesale Lots
Grand Camp, France—Carpenters saw away at rude coffins for French
civilians who were killed during the fierce fighting which followed
the Allied invasion of France. So large was the number of civilian
deaths that this woodmaker has enlisted the aid of three helpers to
build the number of coffins needed.
Credit: ACME |
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7-4-44 |
77.09.829 |
New York Bureau
British Move Forward In Caen Sector
Caen, France—A lumbering Churchill tank crashes through a hedge at the
side of a field, where British troops wait to follow under cover of
the armored vehicle. Today (July 4) British and Canadian forces
captured Carpiquet, only 3 miles west of Caen, and endangered German
troops holding a semi-circular line north of the town.
Credit: British official photo from ACME |
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7-4-44 |
77.09.2371 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
“FERDINAND” GETS LEFT
SORIANO, ITALY—Meet “Ferdinand,” the 70-ton, 88mm. self-propelled gun
which the Nazis abandoned when they fled Soriano in the face of the
British 8th Army attack. German forces usually blow up any
vehicles or equipment which they have to leave behind, but evidently
they were in too much of a hurry to take care of Ferdinand.
Credit: British official photo from Acme |
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7-5-44 |
77.09.35 |
New York Bureau
ACME Photographers in Rome
Rome, Italy – At the front lines with Allied fighting men, Charles
Seawood (left) and Sherman Montrose, ACME Newspictures War
Correspondents, were under fire and suffered the privations all
fighting men must when engaging the enemy. Away from the scenes of
battle, the two ace photographers tour the streets of Rome getting
their fill of the sights. Ever the cameraman, the ACME boys,
nevertheless, lug their equipment with them.
Credit (ACME Photo by Sherman Montrose, War Pool Correspondent)
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