Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection 
of World War II Photographs (continued)

Date      

Image #

Caption

1-7-40

77.09.4228a

LONDON—Official photographs of aerial combats in which British Hurricane and Spitfire planes take part are recorded on 16 m.m. film fitted in cameras mounted in wings alongside the guns. When the gunner fires, the camera automatically goes into action; when firing ceases, the photographic record stops. If pictures sometimes lack clarity due to cloud condensation on lens, vibration and fumes from exhaust of aircraft being attacked, they nevertheless provide certain evidence of concentrated gunfire by fighter planes. The eight-gun power of a fighter plane has greater strength than the entire machine gun strength of 1914 Brigade of Infantry. Photo shows: A Dornier being attacked. Note the dark object on left; this is one of the crew in the act of bailing out.
Credit Line (ACME)

1-10-40

77.09.1996

Russian Food Truck Captured by Finns
FINLAND – Finnish “ghost” soldiers inspecting a large quantity of Russian black bread, captured by the Finns when they attacked a Soviet supply column. A wrecked food truck is shown in the background.
Credit: (ACME)

1-14-40

77.09.3793

U.S. Army Takes to Skis
Lake Placid, N.Y.—Perhaps taking a lesson from the Fighting Finns who glide swiftly over the snow to cut down unwary Russians. Men of the 26^th Infantry, U.S. Army, stationed at Plattsburg, N.Y., slide along in single file as they receive ski instruction at Lake Placid from Rolf Munsen, Olympic star.
Credit: ACME

1-17-40

77.09.1034

RADIOPHOTO
CHICAGO BUREAU
BRIDGES MADE WHILE YOU WAIT
FORT CUSTER, MICH. – When HQ of 5^th Division found they needed a bridge across the Kalamazoo River to have access to Fort water they didn’t wait for the new steel bridge to be finished. Using available material and 15-year-old pontoons, the engineers had this bridge ready in three hours.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME

1-19-40

77.09.2205

Well-earned Rest
FINLAND – Finnish soldiers asleep on the floor of a shelter near the Northern Front, before resuming their efforts  to repel Russian troops.
Credit Line (Acme)

1-21-40

77.09.4616ab

British Destroyer Grenville Sunk in North Sea
London – The British Admiralty announced January 21^st that the destroyer Grenville (above) of the British Navy had been sunk in the North Sea. It was said that the ship had been sunk by either a mine or a torpedo and that eight men were known dead and seventy-three missing.
Credit: ACME

2-9-40

77.09.4465a

Feeding the “Tight Little Isle”
England – Depending largely on sea borne commerce to provide for her insular population, Britain, one referred to as the “Tight Little Isle” by Napoleon, looks to her fishing industry to provide a goodly percentage of the nation’s food, especially in times of war. Here is a fishing trawler, unit of Britain’s “Food Fleet”, shoving her bow into heaving seas as a sail augments the engines.
Credit: ACME

02-11-40

77.09.3228

British Cruiser that Aroused Japs Ire
Tokyo  - A view of the British cruiser (unidentified) that stopped the Japanese liner Asma Maru off Tokyo Bay and seized 21 German sailors bound for the Fatherland via Japan, and gave rise to international repercussions.
Credit line (ACME)

4-25-40

77.09.1013

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
U.S. SHIP HOME FROM NORWAY
NEW YORK CITY - Members of the crew of the American Freighter Normacsea wave to friends as the ship arrived in New York Harbor April 25^th. The ship, first American vessel to come from Norway since the outbreak of war there was in the port of Trondheim when the Germans took over. It crossed with a cargo of $4,500,000 in Swedish gold.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME

4-25-40

77.09.1108

BRITISH SHIPS FITTED WITH ARMOR PLATE IN HOBOKEN
HOBOKEN, N.J. – A fine point involving the United States’ neutrality law has been raised with the disclosure that two British merchant ships are being fitted with armor plate in the Hoboken shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. The ships, one of which may be seen in center of this air photo with gun mounted on after deck, are having steel plates put on pilot houses, bridges and vital parts of the superstructures as protection against air bombs. It will be left to Secretary of State Cordell Hull to decide if this violates U.S. law.
Credit: ACME

4-25-40

77.09.2036

Smashing Germans Reach Roeros
ROEROS, NORWAY – A hard driving German column was reported to have reached the Norwegian town of Roeros, shown above in a general view, moving northward from Oslo. Messages reaching the Swedish border April 25^th reported that Allied troops had reached the vicinity of Roeros to join the Norwegians in battling the Germans there.
Credit: (ACME)

4-26-40

77.09.1638

Allies Close in on Trondheim
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY – In Trondheim, strategic Norwegian seaport, Nazi soldiers stand on guard. Latest reports indicate French Foreign Legion troops have drive the Germans back “with heavy losses” to the north of Trondheim, at the same time Allied troops and planes battle Nazi motorized-columns south of the strategic port.
Credit Line (ACME)

5-11-40

77.09.2018

Radiophoto
Tommies Move Up to Aid Belgians
BELGIUM – Women and girls hailing British soldiers as an Allied tank rumbles through a Belgian village to aid against German invasion of the country. Thousands of Tommies are pouring over the border to take up battle stations behind tanks and guns of all descriptions. Few men of the town are seen in the picture, apparently because they have been called to the colors. Photo radioed from London to New York, May 11.
Credit: (ACME Radiophoto)

5-11-40

77.09.2024

Radiophoto
Nazi War Machine Rolls into Belgium
LUXEMBOURG-BELGIAN BORDER – A mechanized unit of the German army shown on Belgian soil, just after rolling past a post (left) marking the Luxembourg-Belgian border, at the outset of the swift Nazi invasion of the low countries. Steel-helmeted troops may be seen riding in the huge lorry, which is towing a light field piece. Photo radioed from Berlin to New York, May 11.
Credit: (ACME Radiophoto)

5-12-40

77.09.2012

Radiophoto
Bridges to aid the Invader
BERLIN – An engineering detachment of German Pioneer Corps throwing a pontoon bridge across an undisclosed river during the onslaught against Holland and Belgium. In the background may be seen a column of horses crossing another pontoon bridge. Horses strike an odd note among modern mechanized forces, but they can traverse muddy or flooded areas that halt tanks and tucks.
Credit: (ACME)

5-14-40

77.09.2011

Radiophoto
Nazi Warriors Advance in Holland
MASSTRICHT, HOLLAND – According to the Nazi-censored caption for this radiophoto, flashed from Berlin to New York, May 14, German troops are shown crossing a wrecked bridge at Masstricht, Holland, after improvising a pontoon crossing. The bridge was apparently blown up to impede the Nazi advance. The Dutch high command issued a proclamation, May 14, ordering cessation of fighting on the main defensive fronts in Holland, but said that the fight would continue against German forces in Zeeland.
Credit: (ACME Radiophoto)

5-14-40

77.09.4082

Cablephoto
Dutch Children Arrive in London
London - Child refugees from Rotterdam and vicinity shown with their luggage and toys as they arrived in London, May 14. The Dutch High Command issued a proclamation later in the day ordering cessation of fighting on the main defensive fronts in Holland. Photo flashed from London by cable.
Credit: ACME Cablephoto

5-17-40

77.09.3725a

Cablephoto
Britain on Guard Against Fifth Column
England—Armed troops rounding up aliens in the campaign to rid the British Isles of Nazi elements that might aid in a possible German coup of England. Intense precautions have been taken in fear of a parachute invasion of Great Britain, with male German and Austrians being hustled off to internment camps. Pedestrians are scanned to make certain they are not German soldiers in disguise.
Credit: ACME cablephoto.

5-18-40

77.09.1564

Remains of Louvain
LOUVAIN, BELGIUM—Remaining inhabitants of Louvain, Belgian town which was devastated during the World War and rebuilt largely with American funds, pick their way over heaps of debris lying in the street and past houses gutted and shattered by Nazi bombs in the 1940 invasion. The photo rushed to London, whence it was transmitted to New York via cable.
Credit: ACME.

5-18-40

77.09.2279

Seeking Shelter Amid War Ruins
LOUVAIN, BELGIUM – Belgian refugees trudging through a bomb-wrecked Louvain street in search of shelter, according to the British-censored caption for this cablephoto flashed from London to New York, May 18. Some carry babies, others carry their only possessions.
Credit Line (Acme)

5-20-40

77.09.2384

ANIMAL CASUALTIES OF NAZI BOMBING IN BELGIUM
NAMUR, BELGIUM—Horses killed during the German air attacks on Belgium, lying in the deserted streets of Namur.
Credit: Acme

5-20-40

77.09.4209a

ACME RADIO PHOTO
FRENCH, TOO, TAKE PRISONERS
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE—This French censor approved photo, radioed to New York from Paris, May 20, shows German prisoners, taken by the French armies, as they arrived at camp.
Credit: Acme radio photo

5-22-40

77.09.1204

RADIOPHOTO
FRENCH TANKS PUT OUT OF ACTION
BERLIN – French tanks at an undisclosed spot put out of action by German gunfire, according to German caption supplied with this photo. Sent from Berlin by Radio, May 22^nd.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME

5-23-40

77.09.1759

FLIGHT FROM NAMUR
NAMUR, BELGIUM—A blind man taps his way along through the wreckage of Namur during the general exodus from this Belgian town before the invading German legions swept in. His blindness shields him from the scenes of horror of this war, but not its nerve shattering blasts.
Credit: Fox Movietone News from Acme

5-25-40

77.09.3936.a

Anti-Nazi Demonstration in Montevideo
Montevideo, Uruguay – It seems that although the German Pocket-Battleship Graf Spee found temporary sanctuary in this city before it was scuttled, some Montevideans weren’t exactly delighted hosts. As witness, this general view of a recent anti-Nazi demonstration in the Uruguayan capital.
Credit: ACME