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8-10-44 |
77.09.788.a |
New York Bureau
Surrender In Avranches
France—During the drive for Avranches an American patrol heads
cautiously toward a convent where Nazi soldiers are believed to have
fortified themselves. In the top photo two nuns come out to meet the
patrol bearing the German offer of surrender. Capt. Albert J. Owen,
nearest the nuns, accepted the surrender. In the bottom photo, German
soldiers, hands on their heads, come out of their convent hiding
place. Looking on is one of the nuns who negotiated the surrender.
Credit: ACME |
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8-10-44 |
77.09.3117 |
New York Bureau
The Last Flight of a Yank Bomber - #2
KOKAS, DUTCH NEW GUINEA – What was once an A-20 attack bomber is now
but a mass of smoke and flying parts as the plane explodes after
crashing into the sea, a victim of a direct ack-ack hit. A companion
ship heads safely homeward from a low-level raid on Jap installations
at Kokas, Dutch New Guinea.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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8-10-44 |
77.09.3118 |
New York Bureau
The Last Flight of a Yank Bomber - #1
KOKAS, DUTCH NEW GUINEA – In a slow, graceful dive, an A-20 attack
bomber heads for the sea on its final flight after being hit by
ack-ack bursts. A companion ship at left maneuvers for safety. Smoke
streaming from the tail of the wounded craft marks a trail of death,
as the ship was too low to permit crewmen to parachute. Both planes
were returning from a low-level raid on Jap installations at Kokas,
Dutch New Guinea.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.810 |
New York Bureau
Underdog Turns on Nazis
Rennes, France—While American soldiers restrain him, this French
patriot struggles to free himself and vent his wrath on disarmed Nazi
prisoners of war gathered on the Rennes City Hall steps. Finally freed
of Nazi oppression, he fought to get at those who were responsible for
the tyrannical treatment.
Credit: ACME |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.1045 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
YANKS IN NEW GUINEA SEE ELECTION BALLOT
NEW GUINEA – Near the battle front down the Driniumor River, 16 miles
east of Aitape on New Guinea, American soldiers take time out from war
duties to read requirements for soldiers voting by state absentee
ballot.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto by Tom Shafer for ACME |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.1092 |
UNWELCOME GUEST IN RONCEY
RONCEY, FRANCE – These citizens of Roncey, returning to their home
town after the wave of battle had swept past it, are greeted by
wreckage and debris-strewn streets. German tanks and other pieces of
wrecked or abandoned enemy equipment litter the roads.
Credit: ACME |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.2434 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
BLAST JAPS OFF GUAM
GUAM—A Marine howitzer, one of the first to be brought ashore, blasts
enemy positions in the battle for Guam, the first American base to be
taken by the Japs and the first to be recovered from them. More than
10,000 Japanese were killed in the fighting for the island.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from Acme |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.2435 |
New York Bureau
POLITICS ON THE BATTLE FRONT
NEW GUINEA—Yanks in New Guinea, near the battle lines down the
Driniumor River near Aitare on New Guinea, study requirements for
soldier absentee ballot. They are (left to right): Pfc. Leonard C.
Layton, Dayton, O.; Cpl. Henry Betley, Barron, Wis. ; and Pfc. Andrew
Rothstein, New York City, all members of a headquarters company.
Credit-WP (ACME Photo by Tom Shafer, War Pool Correspondent) |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.3115 |
New York Bureau
After Yank Bombardment
TINIAN – Pre-invasion naval and aerial bombardment completely
shattered enemy installations and equipment at this Jap airport on the
Northern end of Tinian. Marine forces captured the field shortly after
hitting the beach and reconstruction of the strip is already underway.
Credit: Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.3116 |
New York Bureau
Old Glory Moves Up to Battle
AGANA, GUAM – Moving through the war-shattered town of Agana, tanks
and armored vehicles of the Third U.S. Marine Division
roll to the North on the hells of retreating Japs. They carry with
them the American flag, to wave once again over the island that was
seized by the Japs shortly after Pearl Harbor.
Credit: ACME |
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8-11-44 |
77.09.3119 |
New York Bureau
No Targets—Gun Crew Rests
AGANA, GUAM – When they ran out of Japs to shoot at on Agana, these
gun crew members laid down their arms to relax for awhile, but they
leave the cartridge belt in their gun—just in case. Left to right:
Pfc. W. C. Dean, Meridian, Miss.; Pfc. R. A. Rouse, Cincinnati, Oh.;
Pfc. E. J. Bernier (lying down), River Rouge, Michigan; and Cpl. T. L.
McHugh, Cincinnati, Oh. Men in foreground and at extreme right are
unidentified. All are of the Third Marine Division
Credit: ACME |
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08-11-44 |
77.09.3278 |
New York Bureau
Roosevelt Sees Aleutian Bases
A guard of honor salutes the presidential car as it rolls through the
mist and rain on an inspection tour of bases in the Aleutian islands.
The president visited this Northern outpost after meeting with
military and naval leaders at Pearl Harbor during his tour of Pacific
bases.
Credit (U.S. Army photo from ACME) |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.164 |
New York Bureau
Bomb-Torn St. Lo Plays Host to Yanks
ST. LO, FRANCE -- It was a victory in ground gain only for American
troops which took St. Lo. Practically all of the city was in the same
condition as the section shown here. Soldiers amble down the street
looking to both sides, where, stretching as far as the eye can see, is
rubble and debris from shattered buildings and emplacements.
Credit (ACME) (WP) |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.746 |
New York Bureau
Paying for His Treachery
RENNES, FRANCE -- Angry citizens of Rennes wreak vengeance on a
collaborator, captured after the Allies took the town. With his back
against a wall, the traitor tries vainly to protect himself from blows
of the angry people. (Man with bandage is not collaborator).
Credit (ACME) (WP) |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.747 |
New York Bureau
Collaborator Spotted
RENNES, FRANCE -- Citizens of Rennes, their liberation by the Allies
in the town square, spot a collaborator about to be put into a
captured truck on the other side of the square. Eager to get their
hands on one of their people who betrayed them to the Nazis, they rush
madly across the open space to catch the traitor.
Credit (ACME) (WP) |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.2126
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New York Bureau
Twice-Damaged Tirpitz
NORWAY – This recent photo of the Tirpitz at her mooring in Kaafjord,
Norway, was taken by an RAF reconnaissance plane of the Coastal
Command. The ship was damaged in Kaafjord on two occasions, once by
British submarines on Sept. 22, 1944, and again by Fleet Air Arm
attack on April 3, 1944. Some of the damage has evidently been
repaired, but the starboard boat and aircraft crane are missing.
Credit (Acme) |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.2470 |
New York Bureau
Benevolent General
Guam—Smiling Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, USMC, Commander of US
Expeditionary Forces on Guam, holds one sober-faced native child on
his lap, while others surround him, grinning cheerfully. The children
were rescued from the Japanese by American forces.
Credit: ACME. |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.3900.a |
For release Monday PM, August 18, 1944
New York Bureau
The Mamselle Gives a French Lesson
Cherbourg, France – On the rocky beach at Cherbourg, a 17-year-old
French girl, Paule Marie Truffert, gives a French lesson to Sgt.
Edward Watson, Terre Haute, Indiana, a member of the American forces
who captured Cherbourg. Paule, who lived with her family in Cherbourg
before the occupation, was sent to Valognes in May 1943 to live with
her grandmother. When Yanks recaptured the port city she returned via
an American jeep. Paule is a great friend of the GI’s, and now seeks a
position as interpreter for the Civil Affairs Committee. She wants to
start a 7-year medical course in Paris this fall.
Credit: ACME |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.4201ab |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
SOUTH TO FALAISE
FRANCE – Canadian infantrymen and army vehicles circle around a
vehicle which has been knocked out by the side of the road, as the
Canadian Army advances South on the road to Falaise.
Credit: Canadian official photo via Signal Corps radio telephoto from
Acme |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.4202a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
AIR SUPPORT FOR ADVANCING ALLIES
CAEN, FRANCE – Bombs burst on German positions South of Caen as
fortresses attack after the great RAF raids which softened up the
enemy for attack by British and Canadian forces advancing on land.
Credit: British official photo via Signal Corps radio telephoto from
Acme |
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8-12-44 |
77.09.4402a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Awaiting Counter-Attack
France – Their anti-tank gun camouflaged with crates and boxes, this
Allied gun crew stands ready on the outskirts of recently occupied
Cherence Le Roussel, silently awaiting Nazi counter-attack.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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8-13-44 |
77.09.1046 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
AMPHIBIOUS SUPPLY TRAILERS
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – An amphibious tractor hauls ashore a new
amphibious cargo trailer during a series of test by US Marines. The
water-tight trailers have a capacity of 220 cubic feet. When used in
combat, they will insure the delivery of supplies in a more usable
condition.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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8-14-44 |
77.09.111 |
(Photo tag is torn in half. First half is lost. The River Vire is in
Normandy, France.)
New York Bureau
…Is Exited
…airview of Vire shows the
…shell-wracked streets
…evacuated it.
…drove the enemy
…from ACME) |
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8-14-44 |
77.09.748 |
New York Bureau
Here Lies Vire
VIRE, FRANCE -- Allied soldiers make their way through this street in
Vire, scrambling over the debris which blocks their way. The French
city was laid in ruins by the terrific bombardment preceding the
Allied entry into the city.
Credit (US Army Official Photo from ACME) |
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8-14-44 |
77.09.2054 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Gateway to Florence
FLORENCE, ITALY – Passing through the Porta Romano, a South African
tank unit enters the city of Florence, hub of the Germans last defense
line in Italy. British 8th Army troops have cleaned out the
last Nazi resistance pockets, and AMG officials have taken over.
Credit Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
