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8-22-44 |
77.09.1297 |
New York Bureau
Attempted Retreat Ends in Death
FRANCE – This German soldier was killed s he attempted to flee from
his half-track vehicle as German forces retreated toward Mortain,
France. Other vehicles in his unit (background) were also knocked out
as they fled homeward.
Credit; (Signal Corps Photo From ACME) |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.1879 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
NO TIME FOR NERVOUSNESS
AT SEA—Veterans of the Italian and Sicilian campaigns and old timers
at the business of invasion, infantrymen of the 45th
Division relax before heading into the invasion of southern France.
There’s no time for invasion jitters when the blue Mediterranean
invites a fighter to take a swim. The boys dive off the [illegible]
will soon bring them to the French coast.
Credit: Acme photo by Sherman Montrose for the War Picture Pool |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.1880 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
COMING IN A ROOF-TOP LEVEL
YUGOSLAVIA—A rocket-carrying Beaufighter of the Balkan Air Force goes
in at roof-top level to loose its cargo of destruction on the already
smoking building, suspected of being German headquarters, in
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
Credit: OWI radiophoto from Acme |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.2128
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New York Bureau
Tank Evacuation for German Soldiers
According to the German caption accompanying this photo, radioed from
Stockholm today (August 22), the picture shows “a defense battle on
the east front.” It actually shows tanks being used to transport
German soldiers in their retreat from the front.
Credit (Acme Radiophoto) |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.4159a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
YANK MEDICS AT WORK IN CHARTRES
FRANCE - - Working in the shadow, of the famous 12th
century Cathedral in Chartres, Yank medics give aid to wounded before
continuing the push Eastward toward and beyond the Seine.
Credit: Army Radio telephoto from Acme |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.4162a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
GRIM REMINDER OF WAR
MORTAIN, FRANCE – On their way to the fields this French peasant and
his little girl pass a Nazi staff car and its dead driver, caught by
shell fire at a crossroads near Mortain. Accustomed to such sights,
the two give it only a passing glance.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from Acme |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.4163a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
A RIGHT WELCOME WELCOME
FRANCE – Completely surrounded by lovely girls and curious French
tots, an American soldier seems embarrassed? At the situation he is
in. Scene took place far inland from the South coast of France at
Riez, where the entire population greeting passing American troops
driving Northward beyond the city.
Credit: Army radio telephoto from Acme |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.4447a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Tabulating German Prisoners
St. Tropez, France – Yanks in the rear lines are kept busy tabulating
the war prisoners that come in by the thousands. Here American
Military Police keep track of the droves of Nazi prisoners near St.
Tropez, France, following their capture by Allies pushing northward
from the southern France beachhead.
Credit: US Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.4598a |
New York Bureau
The Last of the Hurricanes
England – Fancifully decorated is this, the last Hurricane to be
produced by the Hawker Aircraft Company. Banners and pennants describe
the many achievements of the famous fighter.
Credit: British Official Photo from ACME |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.4599a |
New York Bureau
Back from Raid on Alsace Lorraine
England – American airmen return to their base in England after
raiding targets in Alsace Lorraine. They are (left to right): S/Sgt.
Henry L. Wolf, Coahoma, Texas; Sgt. Burdette E. Bonner, Galesburg,
Illinois; S/Sgt. Robert B. Linnemann (stooping), Cincinnati, Ohio; 2nd
Lt. Burnett L. Deyerle, Roanoke, Virginia; Joseph R. Lyons, Wooster,
Massachusetts; 2nd Lt. Lorne R. Marlatt, Brooklyn, New
York; and 1st Lt. Neil A. Daniels, Oak Park, Illinois.
Credit: ACME |
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8-22-44 |
77.09.4600a |
New York Bureau
Hitler’s V-1 Goes Kaput
England – These photos taken with an automatic camera fitted to a
fighter plane flying over England show the death of one of Hitler’s
flying bombs—the V-1. At upper left the bomb, in full flight, tears
toward its target at four miles a minute. Hit in a vital spot, as
shown in upper right, the flying bomb falters and slows down. Smoke
pours from its jet mechanism and fuselage. At lower left the weapon is
in its death throes. Black clouds of smoke stream and almost
completely envelope it. The fire spreads to the explosive war-head and
in the last photo of this series, lower right, the bomb explodes
harmlessly in a huge glare of light in mid-air.
Credit: British Official Photo from ACME |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.252 |
New York Bureau
Aerial Might on Display
ENGLAND -- A tribute to American labor and production power one of the
largest group of B-17 Fortresses ever seen together in the confines of
a photograph are lined up and ready for combat. This is only a small
portion of the aerial might which is assembled in England as
replacements for the strategic bombers of the U.S. Army 8th Air Force.
Credit (USAAF Photo from ACME) |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.1048 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
FIRST MILK FOR GUAM CHILD
GUAM – Nurse Maria S. Aguon gives this little 9-months-old baby its
first taste of milk since birth at the civilian internment camp near
Agana on the island of Guam. Many Chamorro mothers now in the camp,
were fed so poorly under Japanese domination, that they had no breast
milk for their babies.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto by Stanley Troutman for ACME |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.1878 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
THEY FIGHT TO FREE POLAND
POLAND—Guerillas of the Polish Home Army, some wearing uniforms taken
from ambushed German soldiers, plan an expedition with their
commanding officer. Members of Poland’s 9th Infantry
Regiment, the partisans operate behind the German lines.
Credit: Acme |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.2129
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New York Bureau
Flew Supplies to Warsaw Patriots
ITALY – Back at their base in Italy are these four members of an RAF
Liberator crew who recently flew from Italy to Warsaw and back to drop
supplies to patriots battling the Nazis in the Polish capitol. They
are (left to right): F/S Kenneth Pearce, Sgt. Peter Green, Sgt. Derek
Coates, and Sgt. John Rush.
Credit (OWI Radiophoto from Acme) |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.2172 |
New York Bureau
Polish Patriots on Parade
POLAND – After church services celebrating Poland’s National Day (May
3rd), Polish guerilla fighters troop past their colors in a
town 120 miles southwest of Warsaw. The patriots are members of the
Nrubieszow (Podleze) battalion of their country’s home army. Photo
obtained through a neutral source.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.2173 |
New York Bureau
Nazi Hits the Silk
Arms and legs all akimbo, a Luftwaffe fighter pilot tumbles earthward,
his plane flying on, still level, without him. A U.S. Army 8th
Air Force fighter pilot attacked the enemy craft somewhere over France
and although the plane seems unharmed, the pilot, unnerved by hits
Yank scored, baled out.
Credit (USAAF Photo from Acme) |
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08-23-44 |
77.09.3364 |
New York Bureau
Rehashing Victory
At Sea – Relieved grins light the faces of air group 16 pilots as they
discuss a victorious clash with Jap planes, after their return to
their carrier. Seated (top) are; (left to right) Comdr. P.D. Buie of
Nashville, GA; and Ensign W.J. Seyfferle, Cincinnati, O. Lower left:
Ensign Edward G. Wendorf, West (co), Texas. With back toward camera:
Comdr. L.B. Southerland, USN. Extreme right: Lt. (jg) Frances M.
Fleming, Portland, Ore.
Credit line (official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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08-23-44 |
77.09.3365 |
New York Bureau
Jap Bomber Comes Down
At Sea--- Speeding Westward from Saipan in its hunt for the Jap fleet,
task force 58 met and mutilated 18 enemy dive and torpedo bombers in
one of the greatest air and sea battles of the Pacific. The death of
one of the attacking warbirds is shown in this series, as it ran the
gauntlet of murderous flak and finally plunged into the ocean.
Credit line (ACME) |
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08-23-44 |
77.09.3434 |
New York Bureau
They Harass the Hun -- 1
Symi – Specially trained for their work, a small band of British and
Greek troops have forced the Germans to maintain thousands of troops,
many supply vessels and a large number of guns in the Aegean islands.
Striking swift and deadly, patrols of this detachment have made 20
raids into the heart of the enemy-held islands. In one action they
liquidated the entire garrison guarding one island. Here, greek
members of a raiding unit gather about their Colonel Taigantes for
briefing on the island of Symi.
Credit line (British official photo from ACME) |
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08-23-44 |
77.09.3435 |
New York Bureau
They Harass the Hun -- 2
Symi – Specially trained for their work, a small band of British and
Greek troops have forced the Germans to maintain thousands of troops,
many supply vessels and a large number of guns in the Aegean islands.
Striking swift and deadly, patrols of this detachment have made 20
raids into the heart of the enemy-held islands. In one action they
liquidated the entire garrison guarding one island. In this gun
position overlooking Symi harbor, a sergeant sets his charge. A few
moments after photo was made nothing remained of the Nazi position.
Credit (British official photo from ACME) |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.3683a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
In the Midst of Battle
On the Russian Front—A German Panzer Grenadier dashes past a flaming
tank during bitter fighting on the Eastern front. The tank was blasted
by Russian trench mortar fire. Photo radioed to New York today (8/23)
from Stockholm.
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.4125a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
New York Bureau
BOMBS HIT TOULON
FRANCE – Bombs from B-25 Mitchells of the tactical air force strike
their targets below in the Toulon harbor, France. Direct hits were
scored on the German battleship “Strasbourg,” sank a submarine and
severely damaged a cruiser.
Credit: Acme |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.4166a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
THE HAPPY ROAD HOME
FALAISE, FRANCE - - Although they know that their homes will probably
be in ruins, these residents of Falaise are nevertheless happy to
return to the liberated town. At top, the line of returning refugees
stretches as far as the eye can see. At bottom, the innocent victims
trudge past bomb-torn buildings.
Credit: Acme |
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8-23-44 |
77.09.4403a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Two-Way Traffic
France – Past a long column of dejected German prisoners being marched
to the rear, British armored vehicles rumble ahead toward the front.
Nazis were taken when the Falaise-Argentan Gap was closed by Allied
Forces cutting off any possible escape route for an estimated 100,000
Germans.
Credit: British War Office photo via Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
