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07-21-44 |
77.09.2768 |
New York Bureau
The Quick Heed not the Dead
Saipan - - Unmindful of the bodies of enemy soldiers lying close to
them, Marine fighters kneel and take aim as they push ahead through
Saipan. Members of the Second Marine Division, the warriors are
making their way toward the Western beach below Mt. Marpi. |
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07-21-44 |
77.09.2769 |
Saipan - - Second Division Marine tanks move up a hill above Tanapag
Harbor in this panoramic view of fighting on Saipan. The tanks were
used to knock out enemy machine gun nests threatening our front line
troops. |
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07-21-44 |
77.09.2770 |
New York Bureau
Sniper’s Bullet Fells a Marine
Saipan – Fighting Marines hit the ground as Japanese snipers open up
on this small patrol on Saipan. One Marine in foreground doubles up
and pitches forward as a bullet hits him.
Credit Line (U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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07-21-44 |
77.09.3147 |
New York Bureau
Objective in Guam Attack
Guam Is. – This Jap airfield on Guam, pictured from a Navy
reconnaissance plane, is one of the objectives toward which Marine and
Army troops are pressing after the invasion of July 20. Guam is only
579 miles Southeast of Tokyo.
Credit (US Navy official photo from ACME) |
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07-21-44 |
77.09.3148 |
New York Bureau
Thirsty Leatherneck
Saipan – Hot and weary after fighting on the Western beaches below
Saipan’s Mt. Marpi, Marine Pfc. T.E. Underwood of St. Petersburg,
Fla., takes a long, cool drink of water from his canteen. Beads of
perspiration glisten on the weary Leatherneck’s unshaven face.
Credit line –WP- (ACME photo by Stanley Troutman for the War Picture
Pool) |
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7-21-44 |
77.09.4443a |
New York Bureau
Man Shortage There, Too
St. Lo, France – Prominently displayed beneath the sign advertising
the opening on the first canteen is a placard seeking waiters. Cpl. E.
L. Martin, Martinsville, Virginia, stands at the head of the line with
his canteen cup and pan, waiting for the mess call.
Credit: U.S. Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-21-44 |
77.09.4597a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
“Hun Chaser” on the March
St. Lo, France – While the gigantic “Hun Chaser” tank rumbles through
the debris of St. Lo, Pvt. Walter Hatfield, Princeton, Idaho, looks
for snipers with field glasses and poised pistol. Blockbusters have
not yet cleared the streets of rubble.
Credit: US Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-22-44 |
77.09.270 |
New York Bureau
Blood for Wounded Americans
FRANCE -- Sealed containers of blood for transfusions to wounded Yanks
are lined up in a field in Normandy after being delivered by transport
plane. This life-restoring fluid has already saved and will save many
lives. While American soldiers in France are giving their lives for
the cause of freedom, civilians can also play a vital role in that
cause by giving blood to the American Red Cross Blood Bank. In this
simple and painless way, each civilian can feel that part of him or
her has reached a fighting front and has helped to save some soldier's
life.
Credit-WP-(ACME Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent)
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7-22-44 |
77.09.795.a |
New York Bureau
Nazis Make French Town Another Lidice
France—In this radiophoto smuggled out of occupied France and received
in New York from London tonight, badly mutilated bodies of civilians
of Oradour, France, give evidence of the Nazi terrorism which turned
the town into another lidice. As Allied liberators advance
relentlessly inland, Nazis resort more and more in desperation to
ruthless destruction of land, property, and human lives.
Credit: ACME radiophoto |
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7-22-44 |
77.09.802 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Wounded Nazi Rescued By Yank
St. Lo, France—An American soldier picks up a wounded Nazi on the road
to St. Lo and puts him in a halftrack after he was abandoned by his
comrades.
Credit: U.S. Army radiotelephoto by ACME |
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7-22-44 |
77.09.4494a |
New York Bureau
Reconstruction Under Way
Vaucelles, France – Destroyed by Allied precision bombing, this bridge
proved a blockade for German supply lines and troop movements during
the invasion of the Cherbourg Peninsula. Canadian engineers start to
rebuild the railway bridge so that it may aid the Allies.
Credit: Canadian official photo via US Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-23-44 |
77.09.798 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
What A Cadache!
Caen, France—A weary and dejected Nazi prisoner holds his head in his
hands as a Canadian soldier keeps careful watch on him. The prisoner
of war cages near Caen are swollen with captives.
Credit: U.S. Army radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-23-44 |
77.09.4495a |
New York Bureau
Railroad Repairs Under Way
Vaucelles, France – Canadian Army engineers remove the debris from the
tracks at the Vaucelles railway station as they quickly repair the
rail center for use by the Allies.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-24-44 |
77.09.801 |
New York Bureau
Creeping Up
St. Lo, France—In the vicinity of St. Lo, American soldiers
inch forward in their foxhole along the side of a road, while they
dodge German mortar and machine gun fire. After an eight-day fight,
Yank troops captured the town.
Credit: ACME photo by Andrew Lopez, war pool correspondent |
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7-24-44 |
77.09.1719 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
PINT-SIZE PARTISAN
LIVORNO, ITALY—Puffing nonchalantly on a cigarette and carrying a
man-sized rifle, two hand grenades, and other arms, this youthful
partisan presents an incongrous [sic] picture. Familiar with the
layout of Livorno, he directed the American troops away from
heavily-mined areas.
Credit: Acme photo by Sherman Montrose, War Pool correspondent |
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7-24-44 |
77.09.2116 |
New York Bureau
Silk Chemise Now Yank Prize
ITALY – Pfc. Ignacio Villarceal, San Antonio, Tex., proudly displays a
black silk chemise, war booty which he found near a knocked-out German
self-propelled gun in the kit of a dead Nazi. The Germans had looted
the silk undergarment from an Italian store. Villarceal is a member of
a recon unit near Leghorn.
Credit – WP – (Acme Photo by Sherman Montrose, War Pool Correspondent) |
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07-24-44 |
77.09.3149 |
New York Bureau
Into the Deep!
Testifying to the accuracy of U.S. Navy anti aircraft fire, this photo
shows the fiery end of a Jap twin-engined plane shot down in the
Pacific by an American flattop’s gunners. A salty geyser marks the
grave of the warbird.
Credit line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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07-24-44 |
77.09.3150 |
New York Bureau
Jap Plane Goes Down
Testifying to the accuracy of U.S. Navy anti aircraft fire, this photo
shows the fiery end of a Jap twin-engined plane shot down in the
Pacific by an American flattop’s gunners. Streaming smoke and flame,
the plane plummets into the ocean.
Credit line (U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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07-24-44 |
77.09.3151 |
New York Bureau
Relaxation’s in the Cards
Livorno, Italy – Relaxing in one of the park squares at Livorno, loyal
Japanese-Americans squat for a lively poker game. These are some of
the warriors who helped the Fifth Army to take the valuable Italian
port.
Credit line –WP- (ACME photo by Sherman Montrose for the War Picture
Pool) |
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7-24-44 |
77.09.4321a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
And The Rains Came
Normandy, France - Battling the Germans in the area around Caen,
British troops had to combat heavy rains as well as enemy fire. Here
British Tommies advance through a small village, marching knee-deep in
water while their vehicles bog down in the mud.
Credit: US Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-25-44 |
77.09.763 |
New York Bureau
They Must Move Forward
FRANCE -- Despite the fact that one of their buddies has been killed
by enemy fire, these U.S. Infantrymen continue their advance,
carefully watching hedgerows for lurking snipers. Note wires put down
along the road by Signal Corpsmen. Photo was taken near St. Lo.
Credit: (U.S. Signal Corps Photo from ACME) |
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7-25-44 |
77.09.764 |
New York Bureau
Two Halves Won't Make a Whole
NORMANDY, FRANCE -- Nazis fleeing before the American advance in
Normandy, paused long enough to do an efficient job of smashing their
88mm gun (above) in halves before they abandoned it. Maj. James Owen,
Junction City, Tex., examines the remains of the gun.
Credit (ACME) (WP) |
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7-25-44 |
77.09.800 |
New York Bureau
Price of Victory
St. Lo, France—A knocked out American tank destroyer, with the body of
a dead Yank lying in the road behind it, marks this crossroad in St.
Lo, after U.S. forces entered the town.
Credit: U.S. Army photo from ACME |
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7-25-44 |
77.09.1946 |
New York Bureau
At Fifth Army Planning Table
ITALY -- At a field planning table with the Fifth Army in Italy, are
(left to right): standing, Lt. Jack Epping, Quincy, Ill.; Lt. R.E.
Smith, Callaway, Neb.; Lt. Eugene De Hermida, Sacramento, Calif.;
Capt. James Ramsey, Marmaduke, Ark.; and Capt. Alfred H. McCutcheon,
of Fort Davis, Texas.
Credit Line (ACME) (WP) |
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7-25-44 |
77.09. 1969 |
New York Bureau
A Tanker Dies
AT SEA -- With a shattering roar, an Allied tanker explodes in a huge
globe of flame, just before it went to the bottom following enemy
action.
Credit Line (U.S. Navy Photo from ACME) |
