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8-7-44 |
77.09.2122
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New York Bureau
Florentines Cheer Allied Heroes
FLORENCE, ITALY – Joyous, cheering throngs line the route as Allied
troops make their victorious entry into the southern outskirts of
Florence. A vehicle of the South African armored force passes down the
aisle formed by applauding, waving natives.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from Acme) |
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8-7-44 |
77.09.2165
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New York Bureau
Enemy Mines Go Up
LEGHORN, ITALY – Taking cover behind a tank, Cpl. Duane T. Moen,
Minneapolis, Minn., is on the alert for snipers as his Fifth Army
buddies set off mines sowed heavily in one of the main streets leading
to Leghorn harbor. A giant column of smoke rises in background as the
mines blow up.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Army Photo from Acme) |
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8-7-44 |
77.09.2179 |
New York Bureau
Welcome to Florence
FLORENCE, ITALY – Waving and smiling their greetings to the Allied
Liberators, joyous Florentines welcome victorious troops at the
southern outskirts of their city. A member of a South African tank
crew leans down to shake friendly hands.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from Acme) |
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8-7-44 |
77.09.4412a |
New York Bureau
British Bomb Brest
Brest, France – Here’s a bomber’s-eye-view of the U-boat pens at Brest
as RAF airmen strike heavily at their target. A direct hit is scored
by a six-ton bomb on some of the concrete pens.
Credit: British official photo via US Signal Corps from ACME |
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8-7-44 |
77.09.4413a |
New York Bureau
Medics to the Rescue
Somewhere in France – Working feverishly with their shovels, medical
men attached to an infantry unit serving in France dig out some of
their men who were buried beneath an avalanche of dirt when enemy
shells struck.
Credit: US Army photo from ACME |
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8-7-44 |
77.09.4606a |
New York Bureau
Robot Bombs Devastate Southern England
Southern England – While falling concrete and plaster raise a smoky
haze, workmen search through the wreckage of homes for victims of the
raid. A direct hit from one of the bombs has completely razed this
house and only a wall of the one in the background remains standing.
Credit: ACME |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.110 |
New York Bureau
Battle-Ravaged St. Lo
This airview from an Allied plane shows the terrible extent of damage
suffered by St. Lo in the flaming battle for the possession of the
Cherbourg peninsula, in France.
Credit: (ACME) (WP) |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.653 |
New York Bureau
Cream of the Wehrmacht
FRANCE – Their faces hard and sullen, mirroring the determination that
made their crack SS division (the Second Armored) fight almost to the
last man against Allied arms, these Nazi officers of the famous “Goek
von Berltchingen” regiment are lined up by their American captors,
near Avranche.
Credit: (ACME) (WP) |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.785 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
In Pursuit of Germans
France—American Infantrymen move through Mayenne on the heels of
German forces, fleeing in the face of the American blitz offensive.
Buildings were blasted by U.S. bombers.
Credit: Army radiotelephoto from ACME |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.1084 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
LAST RITES FOR MARINE
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC – Still wearing his camouflaged tunic, Lt. (JG)
Joseph P. F. Gallagher, USNR, Catholic Chaplain, 840 Grand Concourse,
Bronx, N.Y., reads the burial service for a Marine who died in the
assault on Tinian Island. His friends form an Honor Guard for the
burial at sea.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corp photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.1984 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
A Liberator is Lost
A B-24 Liberator of the U.S. 15th Air Force bursts into
flames after it was hit by enemy fire during a raid on the North Oil
refinery at Blechhammer, Germany. Three crew members were seen to
escape by parachute before the plane disintegrated in midair.
Credit Line (Army Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.2056 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
British Tank Enters Florence
FLORENCE, ITALY – Crewmen stand atop their British tank as it enters
Florence through the Porta Romano. It is manned by soldiers of the
South African unit of the British 8th Army, which were
first to enter Florence.
Credit (British Official Radiotelephoto via OWI from ACME) |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.2123
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New York Bureau
Street Fighting in Florence
FLORENCE, ITALY – As units of the South African troops of the British
8th Army enter the outskirts of Florence, hub of the
Germans last defense line in Italy, anti-fascists lean out from the
shelter of a building and fire around a street corner at German forces
within the city. These civilians have given great aid in stemming the
fighting of German and Fascist snipers.
Credit (British Official Radiophoto via OWI from Acme) |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.2124
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New York Bureau
Florentines Welcome British Army
FLORENCE, ITALY – Jubilant youngsters jump atop a British tank as the
people of Florence fill the streets to welcome a unit of the British 8th
Army entering the city’s outskirts. Clock in the background reads
9:25.
Credit (British Official Radiophoto via OWI from Acme) |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.4167a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
LOADING FIRST HOSPITAL TRAIN
FRANCE – The first allied hospital train to operate in France since
D-day, is loaded with wounded from ambulances, at Lison. The train is
made up of boxcars left by fleeing Germans. Wounded are taken to
Cherbourg on their way to England.
Credit: Army radio telephoto from Acme |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.4409a |
New York Bureau
Load First Hospital Train
France – Wounded men are loaded aboard the first Allied hospital train
to operate in France since D-Day, on a siding at Lison. They will be
taken to Cherbourg on their way to England.
Credit: Army photo from ACME |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.4453ab |
New York Bureau
Tricolor Salute
France – An American Armored Division receives a greeting from this
old French man with a Tricolor on a staff, as it rolls into St.
Sauveur Lendelin.
Credit: ACME |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.4456a |
New York Bureau
Jumping-Off Place For Robot Bombs
France – Allied soldiers examine the mouth of the ski building from
which German robot bombs were to be launched for attacks on England.
However, the building was left uncompleted when German workers fled in
the face of the great Allied offensive drive.
Credit: ACME |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.4497ab |
New York Bureau
Three Planes, Sir
France – Returning from a mission in Normandy, Maj. Rockford V. Gray,
Dallas, Texas, reports to Intelligence Officer Maj. Perry Wells,
Chicago, Illinois, his quota of three German planes downed during the
flight over British lines. These three brought Maj. Gray’s score of
planes downed to seven. He has flown 102 combat missions and 182
sorties.
Credit: ACME |
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8-8-44 |
77.09.4547a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Looking for Snipers
France – A British infantryman, his gun held ready, dashes across a
road in Montchauvet, while two of his buddies (right, foreground)
cover him. The men are after snipers hiding in buildings in
background.
Credit: British War Office photo via Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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8-9-44 |
77.09.1871 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
HEADING FOR TROUBLE
BERLIN—Out for no good, this Nazi V-1 flying bomb is heading into
trouble of its own making as it rattles toward England. Photo radioed
to New York from Stockholm today (August 9th).
Credit: Acme radiophoto |
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8-9-44 |
77.09.2125
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New York Bureau
Wrecked Houses in Florence
Natives comb through the ruins of buildings in the once-beautiful art
center of Florence, after Nazis had abandoned this section of the
Italian city. Some of Florence still is in Nazi hands.
Credit Line (OWI Radiophoto from Acme) |
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8-9-44 |
77.09.3120 |
Navy Force Strikes in Bonins
BONIN ISLAND – Swift and deadly, eight Grumman Avengers of a
hard-hitting Pacific fleet task force glide over the gnarled shoreline
of Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands, only 600 miles south of Tokyo.
Our planes destroyed 13 Jap ships and 32 planes; they damaged more
than 20 ships and 96 planes.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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8-9-44 |
77.09.3121 |
New York Bureau
Only 600 Miles from Tokyo
BONIN ISLANDS – With smoke rising from the ruins of four ships at Haha
Jima below them, five helldivers of a Pacific Fleet task force slip
back into formation to return to their carriers. In attacks on Haha
Jima and Chichi Jima, both in the Bonin group, 600 miles south of
Tokyo, our planes sank at least 13 Jap ships and damaged more than 20.
Thirty-two enemy planes were shot down and 96 were damaged.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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8-9-44 |
77.09.4455ab |
New York Bureau
A Bit of Home in France
France – Amid the destruction and ruin of St. Sauveur Lendelin, Cpl.
Floyd Davis, Nashville, Tenn., sits on an old settee and reads a
letter from home. A bit of home injected into this scene of warfare
makes for contrast and relief from thoughts of death, destruction, and
disaster.
Credit: ACME |
