Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 134
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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7-9-44 |
77.09.2318 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
FRENCH CLEAR ROAD FOR ALLIED ADVANCE—#3
ITALY—French demolition workers race toward the blasted German road
block they had just exploded in Siena, Italy. Road block halted Allied
advance through the city hard on the heels of rapidly fleeing Nazis.
Siena, only 25 miles from Florence, was recently captured by French
troops of the Allied Fifth Army.
Credit: Acme photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent |
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7-9-44 |
77.09.2955 |
GENTLE HANDS TO HELP HIM
SAIPAN—Tenderly, Coast Guardsmen dress the wounds of a young Japanese
boy, an innocent bystander who suffered serious wounds in the battle
for Saipan. Forgetting the child’s nationality, the fighting men
provide medical attention in the American way, aboard a Coast Guard
manned transport. Left to right: Jack Schwartz, PhM 3/c, Atlantic
City, N.J.; Arnold Allen, S l/c, Portland, Oregon; and Charles
Schlicter, PhM 1/c, Harrisburg, Pa.
Credit: U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO FROM ACME. |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.832 |
New York Bureau
Punishment To Fit The Crime
France—There’ll be many a close-clipped female head in France before
that country’s patriots have finished their job of punishing woman
collaborationists for their traitorous conduct. A free haircut—as
choppy and uneven as it can be—is the gift of loyal Frenchmen to women
who betrayed their country. This unhappy girl, Grande Guillotte by
name, wails and protests in vain as patriots go to work on her
“crowning glory.” Once pleasing to the Aryan eye, Grande will wait
many a moon before she’s the object of an admiring masculine glance
again.
Credit: ACME |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.836 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Allies Advance Under Nazi Gunfire
France—Crawling slowly along a hedge, two Allied infantrymen advance
under Nazi gunfire near St. Jores, France. Tank at left rolls forward
to engage the enemy in battle. Photographer inches ahead of advancing
troops to make this dramatic picture.
Credit: Signal Corps radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.837 |
New York Bureau
Punishment to Fit the Crime
France—Tearfully patting the rough, uneven ends of her shorn locks,
Grande Guilotte has learned that collaboration with the Nazis doesn’t
pay. Fitting the punishment to the crime, French patriots gave the
disloyal girl a free hair cut in the streets of her home town after it
had been liberated by the Allies. The same job was done on every other
female collaborationist in the area, rendering the women unattractive
to men—Nazi or otherwise—for a long time to come.
Credit: ACME |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.838 |
New York Bureau
Punishment to Fit The Crime
France—Now that Allied forces have come, at last, and freed sections
of enslaved France, French patriots are weeding out the quislings in
their midst. Meting out punishment to fit the crime, they have set a
particularly appropriate price for women collaborationists to pay.
Going from house to house, the patriots seize female traitors, drag
them to the street and put the scissors to their hair. Blonde Grande
Guilotte, 23-year old French girl, was one of those shorn of her
“crowning glory.” She is shown as patriots nabbed her.
Credit: ACME |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.2956 |
DUCK FOR COVER
SAIPAN—Members of a Marine assault wave duck behind a tank for cover
as the Japs spray the beachhead at Saipan with machine gun fire. The
Leatherneck on his knees in center of photo appears to have been hit
while scrambling for shelter.
Credit: MARINE CORPS PHOTO FROM ACME. |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.3701a |
Gab Fest Among Women Refugees
Normandy, France—French refugees, driven from their homes by the
course of the war in France, gather in a friendly group among their
bunks in an evacuation camp and talk about the days that were and the
happy days to come after the Germans have been driven from their
homeland. Yesterday in a triumphant push, British and Canadian forces
entered Caen, principal blockade on the road to Paris.
Credit: ACME photo by Andrew Lopez, War Pool Correspondent. |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.3702ab |
New York Bureau
Mother’s Little Helper
Normandy, France—Intent upon his work, this little French boy scrubs
away as he gives a hand to French women refugees as they do their
washing. Note the old-fashioned way they wash—using boards to scrub
the clothes on, just as their ancestors did in days gone by. They are
in special camps for refugees established by Allied civil affairs.
Credit: ACME photo by Andrew Lopez, War Pool Correspondent. |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.3703a |
New York Bureau
Freed Russians to Return to Homeland
Normandy, France—This hilarious group of Russians, freed by the Allies
from their enforced labor with the German army, celebrate their
liberation in the traditional way—wine and song (their women are
waiting for them back in Russia). They are waiting in an Allied camp
for transportation to England and from there to Russia.
Credit: ACME photo by Andrew Lopez, War Pool Correspondent. |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.3941.ab |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Plane Crashes on Return From Mission
A B-17 Flying Fortress of the US 8th Air Force, returning
from a mission over Roeun, France, with its brakes shot out, crashed
into another B-17 parked near the end of the runway. Fire immediately
broke out, engulfing both planes, but the crew miraculously escaped
injury.
Credit: Air Force photo from ACME.
Radiotelephoto |
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7-10-44 |
77.09.3943.ab |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Robot Launching Sites Blasted by Allies
France—Channel areas have felt the intensified bombing attacks by
Allied airmen aimed at knocking out robot-bomb launching sites. Nazi
robot-bombs continue to fall in Southern England and London striking
indiscriminately and inflicting casualties and damage. Here 9th
Air Force Havocs let loose their load of destruction on launching
sites in the Pas de Calais region.
Credit: Signal corps radiotelephoto from ACME. |
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7-11-44 |
77.09.780.a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Shambles At Caen
France—Its streets filled with the rubble of blasted buildings, Caen
presents a desolate picture to Canadian troops entering the city after
its capture last July 6th. Here, they advance in single
file, their guns ready for instant use against snipers. Today, Germans
counterattacked viciously in the Caen sector, temporarily slowing the
Allied advance.
Credit: Canadian Army photo via U.S. Army radiotelephoto by ACME |
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7-11-44 |
77.09.781 |
New York Bureau
Hearty Welcome to Caen
France—With broad smiles on their faces, Capt. Gille (left), President
of the Calvados Committee for Liberation, and M. Dauvre (right),
Prefect of Calvados, (both men facing camera), rush forward to welcome
the first British troops to enter Caen.
Credit: Army radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-11-44 |
77.09.3704a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Allied Prisoners March Through Paris
According to the German caption accompanying this photo, radioed today
(July 11) from Stockholm, these are American and Canadian prisoners
from Normandy marching through German-held Paris. Probably as a
retaliation for Allied pictures of German prisoners reaching England,
the Nazi propaganda line on this photo blares out, in highly sarcastic
tone, “the liberators marching through Paris.”
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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07-12-44 |
77.09.2923 |
New York Bureau
Blasting Out Dug-In Japs
Saipan – Meeting increased resistance from Japs on the Northern tip of
Saipan, American soldiers are shooting, bombing and smoking the enemy
from caves and deep fox holes, such as this one. The Yank at left is
tossing another smoke bomb into the hole to force it’s reluctant
occupants out in the open as the rifleman at right prepares to finish
them off if they come out fighting.
Credit Line – WP – (ACME photo by Stanley Troutman, War Pool
Correspondent) |
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07-12-44 |
77.09.3389 |
New York Bureau
“Beetle” Tanks Serves Allies
France - - Using a knocked out German “beetle” tank as a desk, members
of an R.A.F. beach squadron receive their first pay since their
arrival in Normandy. Cpl. R.W. Richards salutes his officer behind
the German miniature tank tightly clutching three-weeks pay in his
free hand. Squadron arrived on June 6, and was so busy unloading
ships that the unit requested pay be delayed since there was no time
to spend it anyway.
Credit (British official photo from ACME) |
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7-12-44 |
77.09.3705a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Buried Alive by Robot Bomb
England—Sgt. Emery Barefoot, of Vienna, Ga., lived through one of the
most amazing experiences of World War Two, when he was emtombed by the
explosion of a German Robot Bomb, and spent four days in his “grave”
before he was rescued. During that time he ate plaster and portioned
out the water in his canteen, trying from time to time to dig himself
out with a fork, and having weird dreams every time he fell asleep. He
is shown at an English hospital where he is recovering from his
injuries. His nurse is Lt. Yolande Carrado, of Corona, L.I., NY.
Credit: Army radiotelephoto from ACME. |
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7-12-44 |
77.09.3815 |
New York Bureau
First Normandy Wounded Here
Washington, D.C.—Among the first wounded to be brought home from the
Normandy beachhead, these four Yank heroes while away the hours with a
checkers game, at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. Left to
right, are: Pfc. James R. Hines, 25, Brookville, Pa.; Pvt. Clarence
Osher, 24, Redford, N.Y.; Pfc. Lester A. Walter, 33, Auburn, N.Y.; and
Pvt. Lewis E. Morris, 37, Crozet, Va.
Credit: ACME. |
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7-13-44 |
77.09.811 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
A Word To The Wise
France—Heeding the warning of this sign “Somewhere in Normandy” which
reads, “You are under enemy observation—no vehicles past this point.”
Two Yanks crouch low as they race past an exposed position. They are
(left to right): Pfc. Russell J. Schoonmaker, of Shelton, Conn., and
Pvt. James V. Pappas, Indianapolis, Ind.
Credit: Army radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-13-44 |
77.09.817 |
New York Bureau
The Price of Victory
France—American soldiers lie face turned toward their Maker in death
after being hit from mortar shells fired from a Nazi position nearby.
Force of the shell’s fire is evidenced by the ruined and upturned Army
vehicles in the rear. The price of victory in France is high and the
cost is still rising. What better way to lower death tolls and shorten
the war than by buying as many war bonds as possible.
Credit: ACME |
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7-13-44 |
77.09.2062 |
New York Bureau
“Death Waltz” over Vienna
A Messerschmitt-109 fighter plane, trailing roaring flame and greasy,
black smoke starts its spinning death dance toward the earth below.
The Nazi ship tried to pounce on B-24 Liberators of the U.S. Army 15th
Air Force over Vienna, Austria, but he met hot lead – and his
“Waterloo.”
Credit Line (USAAF Photo from ACME) |
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7-13-44 |
77.09.2703 |
New York Bureau
Burning Out Japs on Saipan
Marianas – American troops use flame throwers to roast the Japs out of
cave hideaways in a quarry of Saipan, important base in the Marianas.
U.S. forces have ended all organized Jap resistance on the island, and
are using its excellent airfields for attacks on other Jap stongpoints.
(Passed by Censors)
Credit: ACME |
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7-13-44 |
77.09.4437ab |
New York Bureau
Proof of the Pudding
France – Some general recently scoffed at the story that enemy snipers
hide in trees and offered five dollars to the first man that could
prove it. T/Sgt. Meredith J. Roger, of San Antonio, Texas, lays claim
to that “pound” right now, and here’s the proof! He holds his helmet,
punctured in two places from a tree-sniper’s bullet. Incidentally,
when the bullet hit his tin hat, near Cherbourg, Roger wasn’t even
scratched! Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME |
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7-14-44 |
77.09.343 |
Flying Bomb Strikes Again
ENGLAND -- A British soldier looks horror-stricken at the havoc to the
ward of a hospital in southern England by one of the Nazi flying
bombs. These bombs, a revenge of the Nazis for the Allied invasion of
their "Festung Europa", have brought many casualties to the residents
of southern England, but Allied planes have been consistently
attacking the launching platforms.
Credit (ACME) |
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