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9-2-44 |
77.09.2166 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Polish Patriots Revolt in Warsaw
According to the German caption on this photo, radioed today
(September 2) from Stockholm, German soldiers march past barbed wire
barricades as they seek Polish patriots who are participating in the
revolt within Poland’s capital. As the fighting continues, the Polish
government appeals to the Allies for aid in wrestling the capital from
the Nazis.
Credit (Acme Radiophoto) |
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9-2-44 |
77.09.4314a |
New York Bureau
Talked Into Surrendering
France - Some raise one arm, the more cautious get both high in the
air, as Sgt. Olin Dows, Rhinelander, N.Y., brings in his catch of 56
Nazis at Joigny, France. His fluent knowledge of German enabled him to
talk them into quitting.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from ACME |
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9-2-44 |
77.09.4315a |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Nazi Convoy Joins The Fishes
France - A few of the 400 camouflaged Nazi vehicles are shown, wrecked
and burning, after the enemy convoy was trapped and destroyed near
Montelimar, France, by small arms and mortar fire, from the U.S. 7th
Army.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.752 |
New York Bureau
American Jeeps See Paris
PARIS -- Spaced out across the wide Paris street, American Jeeps with
trailers participate in the grand parade of US troops and mechanized
units on August 29. Civilians line the streets, eager to view their
liberators.
Credit (ACME) (WP) |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.1650 |
New York Bureau
Over the Border
The feet of American soldiers tramp across the French-Belgian border,
passing a tiny boundary marker. American units have now advanced forty
miles inside Belgium.
Credit: SIGNAL CORPS RADIOTELEPHOTO FROM ACME. |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.1877 |
RADIOTELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
TOAST TO THE HOAX
ITALY—Lt. Col. James A. Gunn, San Antonio, Tex., (left) drinks a toast
with Capt. Bazu Cantaguzino at a 15th AAF base in Italy.
The Romanian pilot flew Col. Gunn back to Italy in a stolen ME-109 to
arrange for the mass evacuation of over 1,000 former air forces combat
crew members from Romanian prison camps.
Credit: Signal Corps radiotelephoto from Acme |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.3924.ab |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Stunt That Liberated 1000 Americans
Leaning out of the flag-covered fuselage of his plane, Lt. Gerald W.
Marshall, Los Angeles, Calif., (center) demonstrates to two fellow
officers of a B-24 Liberator Bomb Group of the 15th Army
Air Force how Lt. Col. James A. Gunn, San Antonia, Tex., flew back
from Romania to arrange for mass evacuation of over 1000 former Air
Force men from a Romanian prison camp.
Credit: Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.4114a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
LE BOURGET AIRPORT BATTERED
PARIS – Le Bourget airfield, world-famous Paris flying field, battered
as the allies advanced to liberate it from the Germans, lies a mass of
wrecked hangars and buildings. The field itself is rutted in places
where shells landed. On the right the tail of a wrecked Messerschmitt
110 just out.
Credit: Acme |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.4132a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
New York Bureau
“IKE” INSPECTS THE WORK OF HIS MEN
FRANCE – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied
expeditionary forces, inspects an overturned German tank left by a
roadside in France by the retreating enemy.
Credit: Acme |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.4178a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
YANK AND FRENCH FORCES CAPTURE LYON
This is a general view of Lyon, the third city of France, which was
reported captured by American and French forces yesterday (Sept. 2).
Street fighting is still reported in progress in the city which the
Germans, by blowing up nine of the ten bridges across the Rhone and
Saone rivers, had divided into three sections. The virtual capture of
Lyon meant that in the past 12 days the Allied armies and the Maquis
had liberated the first five cities of France – Paris, Marseille,
Lyon, Bordeaux, and Nice.
Credit: Acme |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.4179a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
SCUTTLED WARSHIPS
TOULON, FRANCE – Only the bridges and masts of this pair of French
destroyers are visible as the scuttled ships lay side-by-side in
Toulon harbor. The vessels were sent to the bottom by French patriots
to prevent their seizure by the Nazis.
Credit: Army radio telephoto from Acme |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.4499a |
New York Bureau
Tribute to Dieppe Raiders
Dieppe – Two Canadian soldiers and two Frenchmen visit this crowded
cemetery at Dieppe to pay their respects to fallen British and
Canadian heroes who died in the famous Commando raid of August, 1942.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.4610ab |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Punished by Both Sides
Toulon, France – The French battleship “Dunkerque,” which took
punishment from both the Allies and the Germans, lays partly sunken in
Toulon Harbor. The ship was a target for Allied bombardiers when she
was in German hands, and a victim of retreating Nazis who cut off her
big guns.
Credit: U.S. Army Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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9-3-44 |
77.09.4612a |
New York Bureau
Hungry Paris Gets Food
Paris – Citizens of Paris line up on the sidewalk to receive their
share of the food and flour brought into the capital by British Army
trucks. The guerrilla fighting which preceded the liberation of Paris
resulted in a supply breakdown and the food situation was acute when
the Allies entered the city,
Credit: ACME |
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9-4-44 |
77.09.756 |
New York Bureau
Yanks Reach Former Battleground
CANTIGNY, FRANCE -- Yank troops roll through the town of Cantigny,
where their fathers fought one of the greatest battles of World War I
twenty-six years ago. Civilians come out to cheer the liberators as
they roll by.
Credit: (Army Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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9-4-44 |
77.09.757 |
New York Bureau
Jeeps Cross the Oise
COMPEIGNE, FRANCE -- Traveling on rafts, propelled by ropes from the
opposite shore, American Jeeps cross the Oise River near Compeigne. In
the background is the wreckage of the main bridge, which was destroyed
by fleeing Nazis.
Credit: (Army Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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9-4-44 |
77.09.1649 |
New York Bureau
Flowers for the Liberators
FORGE PHILLIPPE, BELGIUM—Women and children of Forge Phillippe carry
bouquets of flowers to throw in the path of the American Liberators of
their town. They crowd about two Yanks in a jeep as the little vehicle
rolls through the village.
Credit: ACME PHOTO VIA ARMY RADIOTELEPHOTO. |
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9-4-44 |
77.09.4139a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
New York Bureau
PRISONERS DIG FOR GESTAPO VICTIMS
GRENOBLE, FRANCE – German prisoners dig in old bomb craters, hunting
for the bodies of 72 Frenchmen who were killed by the Gestapo in
Grenoble during the city’s occupation. A crude cross inscribed “to
the victims of the Gestapo” marks the grave of the murdered.
Credit: Signal Corps Radio Telephoto – Acme |
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9-5-44 |
77.09.72 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
“Old Glory” raised over Cezembre
France – The Stars and Stripes are raised over the small French island
of Cezembre after German forces had surrendered. Pfc. Richard T. Franz
(right), Oswego, N.Y., raises the flag as Pfc. David Snyder of Wilkes
Barre, Pa., looks on. The War Department places Cezembre just west of
St. Malo off the north coast of Brittany.
Credit (Army Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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9-5-44 |
77.09.1876 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
SPEEDY RETREAT
Using horses, a German supply column retreats on the east front, using
the “river as a road.” According to the German caption accompanying
the photo, this means is “faster and easier than other ways of
transportation.”
Credit: Acme radiophoto |
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9-5-44 |
77.09.4133a |
RADIO TELEPHOTO
New York Bureau
NO PAUSE FOR ONRUSHING CANADIANS
DIEPPE, FRANCE – A Canadian carrier, with flowers decorating its
front, passes through a road block in Rue De La Barre, Dieppe.
Inhabitants cheer the soldiers, who, without so much as a halt, swept
on to Le Treport and Abbeville.
Credit: Acme |
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9-5-44 |
77.09.4134a |
New York Bureau
CONFISCATED RADIOS RETURNED
FRANCE—When the Germans were in the saddle in France, it was a crime
punishable by death to listen to an allied broadcast. Then, too, all
radio sets were confiscated by the occupation authorities. Here, at
Villier Sur Mer, near the mouth of the Seine, residents reclaim their
confiscated radios after liberation by the British. Local French
authorities broke into the German storehouse and distributed the sets
to claimants who could establish proof of ownership.
Credit: Acme |
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9-5-44 |
77.09.4136a |
New York Bureau
FRENCHMEN OPEN ROAD FOR ALLIES
FRANCE – With the Hun beaten and retreating, French citizens of Dieppe
clear a road block in the city to open a path for Canadian troops
advancing along Northern France.
Credit – WP – (Acme) |
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9-5-44 |
77.09.4137a |
New York Bureau
YANK INFANTRY COLUMN ENEMY TARGET
FRANCE – An American soldier dashes for cover as vehicles of U.S.
column become target for Nazi guns in Brest, France. Smoke from near
or direct hits on the column fills the area.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from Acme |
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9-5-44 |
77.09.4138a |
New York Bureau
AND PRE-WAR RUBBER, TOO
FRANCE – Lt. Margaret Weston, Steubenville, O., and Lt. Patricia
Sheridan, Cleveland, O., 80th Army nurses, do a bit of
window shopping in Sens, France. And that’s not a bad looking number,
either.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from Acme |
