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7-29-44 |
77.09.1174 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
IT’S GOING TO BE COLD THIS WINTER
DUTCH EAST INDIES- Columns of black smoke rise in the air after
Japanese oil supply dumps at Boela, Ceram Isal, Dutch East Indies,
received direct hits from Lt. Gen. Kenny’s 5th Air Forces
Bombers. One of the bombers can be seen emerging from the smoke (top
center).
Credit: USAAF photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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7-29-44 |
77.09.2713 |
New York Bureau
First Photo of Yank Troops in Guam
Guam – In this first photo to arrive here from the new fighting front
on Guam, a group of Marines bunch together while clearing a tank trap
on a road after one of their tanks was temporarily put out of action.
Yanks are hot in pursuit of Japs occupying this first of American
Pacific possessions to fall into enemy hands.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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7-29-44 |
77.09.4234a |
New York Bureau
PROTECTION AND POKER
FRANCE—In an off-duty moment at a base in Normandy, card players take
extra special precautions against Nazi kibitzers. Intent on their
cards are (left to right): Sgt. Louis Rossi, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Sgt.
Joseph Grillo, Brooklyn, N.Y.; S/Sgt. Edward Kamalsi, Detroit, Mich.;
and Sgt. Edward Bearden of Waco, Tex.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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7-29-44 |
77.09.4235ab |
FRANCE—Sprawled by his weapon, a Nazi bazooka gunner lies
dead, a victim of the terrific allied aerial and artillery attack in
the Marigny area of France. A U.S. Signal Corps photographer, camera
in hand, looks over the gunner and the weapon which will no longer
toss shells at American tanks.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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7-29-44 |
77.09.4419a |
New York Bureau
It Puts In and Takes Away
France – While trucks wait in the background, the mighty bulldozer
fills in bomb craters on a road in France, to clear the way for
advancing American forces. The versatile machine has also proved a
great asset in clearing debris-filled streets in captured towns.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from ACME |
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07-30-44 |
77.09.3366 |
New York Bureau
Tinian Invasion Gets Under Way
Tinian, Mariana Is. – As smoke rises from pre-invasion artillery
pounding on Tinian, waves of small landing boats head for the beach as
Marines begin their invasion of the island. This was the third island
of the Marianas to be invaded by US forces within 6 weeks.
Credit (Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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7-30-44 |
77.09.4233a |
BAZOOKA KNOCKS OUT NAZI TANK
NORMANDY, FRANCE—This dramatic photo series shows the destruction of a
Nazi tank that had blocked the advance of our forces through a
Normandy village. At top, Bazooka gunners have just fired their
projectile, which explodes and envelopes the tank in smoke and flames.
In the bottom photo a detachment of infantrymen, under Sgt. James F.
Kelly, Boston, Mass., push toward the battered tank to care for any
possible survivors from the tank’s crew.
Credit (ACME) |
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7-30-44 |
77.09.4500a |
New York Bureau
Last Flight for Flying Fort
Normandy, France – A smoke trail drifts into the sky after a Flying
Fortress had been shot down by flak in the great American close-range
bombardment of enemy lines during the preliminary softening-up before
the present offensive. Other planes of the squadron can be seen flying
in formation.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.170 |
P-47 Sports Super-Armament
A deadly weapon of war is this huge P-47 Thunderbolt with its eight
.50 caliber machine guns and new rocket gun armament. These high speed
photos show the firing of the rocket projectile. The top shows the
initial stages of the firing and the succeeding ones follow through
until the rocket is shown clear of the plane.
Credit (USAAF Photo from ACME) |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.749 |
New York Bureau
Caen During German Occupation
CAEN, FRANCE -- According to the German caption accompanying this
photo received in London from a neutral source, this is a street in
Caen after a British bombing attack which preceded its land onslaught
on the city. A German soldier looks upward at the retreating planes.
Credit (ACME) |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.853 |
New York Bureau
Removing German Tank Obstacle
Normandy, France—The camera records the instant when the bazooka guns
fired by the Allied soldiers in the foreground score direct hits on
the German tank in the rear, and the vehicle goes up in a cloud of
flame and smoke. The soldiers were aiming at the wrecked building
which housed German snipers, but the tank was blocking their attack.
Credit: ACME |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.1345 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
NUNS ATTEND FIRST MASS ON LIBERATED SAIPAN
SAIPAN ISLAND—Catholic nuns attend the first Mass held on Saipan since
1940, when the Japanese abolished Christian rites. Attending Mass with
them are other civilians freed from the Japs by the capture of Saipan
by the U.S. “triphibian” (air-land-sea) forces.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from Acme |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.3990.a-b |
New York Bureau
Thunderbolt Bristles with Guns
A soldier loads a projectile into the rocket armament of the far wing
of a P-47 Thunderbolt. This plane is a deadly weapon of war with its
eight .50 caliber machine guns and new rocket armament. Here is a
closeup of the plane with its machine guns and the rocket gun armament
under both wings. Three of the rockets are standing on end before a
wheel of the plane.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.4427a |
New York Bureau
Target For RAF “Heavies”
Pas De Calais, France – This concrete dome structure, topping German
underground installations in the Pas De Calais area, which are
believed to have something to do with the enemy’s threatened use of
long-range rockets, was undermined by RAF “heavies” which attacked the
area on July 17 and again on July 20. The 12,000-pound bombs tore out
a great deal of the cliff supporting the dome, closed up tunnel
entrances, and disrupted rail lines. Although this photo was taken
before either of these raids, the damaged condition of the area around
the dome shows that it had evidently been the target on previous
raids. For pictures taken after the RAF July 17 and July 20 attacks,
see ACME photo #732304.
Credit: British Official Photo from ACME |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.4428a |
New York Bureau
RAF Scores Double Hit On Underground Target
Pas De Calais, France – Hidden in a quarry in the Pas De Calais area,
German underground installations reputed to be connected with their
long-range rocket planes, were attacked by the RAF “heavies” in
successive raids on July 17 and July 20. In between the two raids,
TODT organization workers sought to repair the damage from the first,
but this photo, taken after both attacks, shows timber props used in
reconstruction work scattered in all directions. The concrete dome
situated on the cliff has a huge gap in the ground supporting it, and
other concrete structures have been torn away by the 12,000-pound
bombs. For photo of the dome before the raid, see ACME photo # BP
732303.
Credit: British Official photo from ACME |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.4429ab |
New York Bureau
British Soldiers Captured in Normandy
Normandy, France – According to the German caption accompanying this
photo received in London from a neutral source, these men are British
soldiers who have been captured by the Germans in Normandy.
Credit: ACME |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.4430a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Forward On The Victory Road
Caumont, France – During a British attack on the Caumont area,
infantry and armored vehicles move forward to the front lines, as the
British offensive continues to advance.
Credit: British Official Photo via US Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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8-1-44 |
77.09.4431a |
Radiotelephoto
Going Home Again
France – A long line of French Evacuees on the Coutances-St. Giles
road return with their belongings to their homes. Those in the
background are not so fortunate as to have wagons.
Credit: US Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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8-2-44 |
77.09.193 |
New York Bureau
Underground Guam Command Post
GUAM -- In this super foxhole turned into a command post on Guam, Maj.
Gen. Roy S. Geiger (left), commander of Third Marine Amphibious Corps,
confers with Maj. Gen. Allen H. Turnage, USMC. Sand bags and alert
sentries furnish additional protection against possible Jap
interruption of this battlefront strategy huddle.
Credit (Marine Corps Photo from ACME) |
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8-2-44 |
77.09.194 |
Jap Gun on Guam a Yank Prize
GUAM -- Useless now except as a memento of action gone by is this
captured Jap gun taken during the American assault of Piti, Jap Naval
station at Guam. In the gun pit are Sgt. Joe A. Grimes, Groesbeck,
Tex. (rear, left) and Cpl. James W. Redding, (rear, right), Atlanta,
Ga., examining a Jap flag, while (left to right, front) Pfc. Joe
Woolsey, Jerseyville, Ill.; Pfc. Warren Jordan, Newark, N.J.; and Pfc.
Joe Gilles, LaCrosse Wis., exhibit the gun.
Credit- WP-(ACME) |
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8-2-44 |
77.09.274 |
New York Bureau
Navy's Normandy Wounded Brought Home
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With ambulances and stretchers waiting, some of
the one hundred and twenty nine Navy men wounded in Normandy are
lifted from a hospital train which carried them to Silver Springs
where they will receive further treatment in the Naval Medical
Hospital. These Naval heroes were brought across the Atlantic from
France in a hospital ship.
Credit: (ACME) |
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8-2-44 |
77.09.2721 |
New York Bureau
Pre-Invasion Bombardment on Guam
Guam Is. – Grey and black smoke rises in huge billows from the shores
of Guam, as US Navy guns and planes hammer at the Jap installation on
July 21 to soften it for Marine and Army landing forces.
Credit: Official US Navy photo from ACME |
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8-2-44 |
77.09.2722 |
New York Bureau
Fire and Brimstone on Guam’s D-Day
Guam Is. – A phosphorus shell explodes in a burst of burning fog, and
US ships move into the harbor at Guam as landing assaults are launched
against the Japanese stronghold. The landings were preceded by aerial
and surface bombardment.
Credit: US Navy photo from ACME |
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8-2-44 |
77.09.4262.a-b |
New York Bureau
NUN GIVES YANKS INFORMATION
FRANCE—A French nun gives information about retreating German forces
to Yanks, who pause on their way to the Avaranches front.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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8-2-44 |
77.09.4263.a-b |
New York Bureau
BRITISH TANKS MOVE UP TO FRONT
CAUMONT, FRANCE—A column of British-manned Sherman tanks move forward
through a wooded area south of Caumont to take part in the heavy
British offensive against the Germans in this section.
Credit (British Official Photo via US Army Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
