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10-18-44 |
77.09.2466 |
San Francisco Bureau
U.S. Carries Throw Off Jap Attackers
Formosa—In a cloud of spray and flame, an enemy plane disappears just
aft of an Essex class carrier. Another flier of the Rising Sun swoops
over the carrier’s bow as anti-aircraft bursts pepper the sky. This is
one of the first pictures of the first sea engagement off Formosa.
U.S. Navy photo.
Credit: ACME. |
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10-18-44 |
77.09.3914 |
New York Bureau
Air Brake
Wilmington, Ohio – A CG-4A Glider comes in for a test landing at Army
Air Base, Wilmington, Ohio, with a giant nylon parachute serving as an
air brake. New development enables gliders to land in smaller areas
and reduces accidents. It is contained in a special pack attached to
the glider’s tail cone and is opened by a ripcord attachment in the
cockpit.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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10-18-44 |
77.09.4441a |
New York Bureau
Chow Lineup at Metz Front
France – American infantrymen line up for chow rations as they get set
for a meal in Vionville on the Metz battle front in France. Photo by
ACME Newspictures photographer Charles Aacker for the War Picture
Pool.
Credit: ACME |
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10-18-44 |
77.09.4552ab |
New York Bureau
England – Two school-age youngsters march with veteran Nazi soldiers
as they head for prison camps in England after crossing the Channel in
a landing craft. The youths were taken at Calais.
Credit: ACME |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.144 |
New York Bureau
Yanks Fight in Aachen Streets
Germany – American soldiers stand in the rubble-littered streets of
Aachen as fighting for this Nazi stronghold was brought into the city
proper. Photo by ACME photographer, Andrew Lopez, for the War Picture
Pool.
Credit – WP – (ACME) |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.317 |
New York Bureau
When London Burned in 1941
Fire-fighters strive desperately to beat back flames shooting from
buildings along Queen Victoria Street in London during the Nazi blitz
in 1941. The international headquarters of the Salvation Army is at
right. This photo depicting the ferociousness of the '41 blitz has
just been released by the censors for publication.
Credit: (ACME) |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.0688 |
New York Bureau
AACHEN UNDER PALL OF SMOKE
GERMANY—Clouds of smoke rise above the ancient German city of Aachen
after a concentrated Allied bombing attack.
Credit: Photo by Acme photographer, Andrew Lopez, for the War Picture
Pool |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.1689 |
RADIOTELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
“LAUNDRY SALUTE”
GERMANY—Bits of sheets and other white cloth hang from houses on both
sides of the street in this town beyond Kohlscheid, in token of
surrender as U.S. Infantrymen advance through the rain in search of
the enemy.
Credit: Army Radiotelephoto from Acme |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.1690 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
ACTION IN AACHEN
GERMANY--Gun blazing away at enemy positions off to the left, an
American tank rolls through a battered street in Aachen.
Credit: Photo by Acme photographer, Andrew Lopez, for the War Picture
Pool |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.1843 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
TAKE GERMAN PRISONERS—SOME IN CIVVIES
A crowd of German prisoners march to boats which will carry them to
England. Those in civilian clothes have been rounded up after removing
their battle outfits in an effort to avoid capture.
Credit: British official photo from Acme |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.1844 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
BUNNY DUCKS THE MUD
ITALY—Pfc. Lloyd F. Tegge, of Waukesha, Wis., carries his pet rabbit,
“Rexine Gothic” across the ooze of a road in the Pietramala area. The
prize bunny has been through the entire Gothic Line sector with its
master, who is attached to the 5th Army.
Credit: Army photo from Acme |
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10-19-44 |
77.09.1857 |
This caption only partially legible
NEW YORK
YANKS DIG IN—AGAIN
BELGIUM—Swinging shovels and picks with…will, U.S. Infantrymen dig in
along the…line of trenches used during Word War…to protect themselves
from enemy action.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps photo… |
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10-20-44 |
77.09.7 |
New York Bureau
Leaving a Sinking Ship
Aachen, Germany – Carrying a minimum of baggage, German civilians
leave their cellar hideouts in Aachen and head for safer areas, led by
an American soldier. Supreme Allied Headquarters announced today that
the last enemy resistance had been mopped-up, and the city is in the
hands of the American First Army – the first great German city to fall
to the Allies.
Credit (ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent)
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10-20-44 |
77.09.212 |
New York Bureau
German Key City is Battleground
AACHEN, GERMANY -- As the city becomes darkened by a pall of smoke
from exploding shell bursts, Yank artillerymen move their gun into
position on the corner of Bismarck St. in Aachen, as street-to-street
fighting continues in the besieged German city. It was announced today
that the American First Army had completed the mop-up of Aachen,
leaving Gen. Hodges' Army free to continue its drive eastward over the
Cologne plain.
Credit (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent)
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10-20-44 |
77.09.645 |
New York Bureau
Shooting his way through Aachen
AACHEN, GERMANY – Moving up a street in Aachen, past buildings still
smoking from exchanges of shots, this American infantryman keeps his
gun cocked and eyes open for German snipers, as he leads an advance
during the fierce street fighting final enemy resistance ended today,
and American forces are now in full possession of the German town, key
to the Rhine.
Credit (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent)
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10-20-44 |
77.09.4246a |
New York Bureau
CLAIM NO KINSHIP
FRANCE—As Americans smash their way into the Jap’s temporary bastion
in the Philippines, these loyal Japanese-American infantrymen slog
through the mud of France to join other Allied forces in the battle to
conquer Germany.
Credit (Army Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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10-23-44 |
77.09.2743 |
New York Bureau
Man Bites Mule
Ramgarh, India – Although it’s only a slight variation on the popular
prescription for “news”, it isn’t news when man bites mule, unless you
aren’t acquainted with the ways of muleskinners, Sgt. Fred Parker of
Ozona, Tex., bites the ear of a mule to take the animal’s mind off
branding operations. Lt. Carl W. Shultz, Independence, MO, of the
Army veterinary Corps, wields the branding iron and Sgt. R. Sterling
(right), Crawford, Neb., assists. The mule is one of a group of new
arrivals at Ramgarh in the C.B.I.
Credit line (Signal Corps photo from ACME) |
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10-24-44 |
77.09.242 |
New York Bureau
Blimp Makes Carrier Landing
Cruising in from a flight, a Navy blimp makes a landing aboard a
carrier somewhere at sea. Secured by lines, the blimp nestles toward
the deck, its gondola almost touching the broad surface.
Credit (U.S. Navy Photo from ACME) |
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10-25-44 |
77.09.1763a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
WARSAW POLES SURRENDER
Radioed to London from a neutral source and just received in New York
this photo shows wounded and half naked men of the Warsaw resistance
army marching dejectedly through the ruined streets of the Polish
capital after their surrender to Nazi occupation forces. Premature
uprising in Warsaw was quelled when the Russian armies bogged down on
the outskirts of the city.
Credit: Acme |
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10-25-44 |
77.09.1764 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
WARSAW POLES SURRENDER
Radioed to London from a neutral source and just received in New York
this photo graphically depicts the tragedy and suffering of the people
of Warsaw when the premature uprising by the resistance group was
quelled by the Nazi hordes. Starved and war-weary Polish people are
herded together before removal by the Nazis after final surrender.
Credit: Acme |
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10-25-44 |
77.09.1765 |
WARSAW POLES SURRENDER
Two Polish delegates of the Warsaw resistance group, a man at right
and a woman, are blindfolded by Nazi soldiers before being passed
through German lines after the premature uprising in the Polish
capital was quelled by Hitler’s occupation forces. This photo, radioed
to London from a neutral source, has just been received in New York.
Credit: Acme |
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10-25-44 |
77.09.1766a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
67-YEAR-OLD REGISTERS FOR NAZI ARMY
According to the German caption which accompanied this photo, radioed
to New York from Stockholm, two elderly German veterans of the first
World War are shown registering for service in the new Deutsche Volks-Sturm.
Man at center right is sixty-seven years old.
Credit: Acme Radiophoto |
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10-26-44 |
77.09.3979.a-b |
New York Bureau
Yank Version of the Robomb
Dayton, Ohio—This is the American version of the Robomb, shown rigged
to the ceiling of a 20-foot wind tunnel for testing at Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio, where it is being developed.
Credit: ACME. |
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10-27-44 |
77.09.1760 |
[illegible] HOMEWARD BOUND
Sicily, Salerno and Normandy are on the log of this LCI flotilla
making its triumphant homecoming at an East coast port. Invasion craft
sailed for European coast nearly two years ago. Twenty of original 24
craft return—four were knocked out during Normandy invasion. Vessels
are manned by Coast Guard crews.
Credit: Coast Guard photo from Acme |
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10-27-44 |
77.09.2745 |
New York Bureau
Civilian Life on Saipan
Saipan, Marianas, -- As US forces of occupation took charge on Saipan,
there began a slow trek from the caves and other hiding places of
Japanese and native civilians, half-starved and inflicted with all
sorts of diseases, including diarrhea, worms, beriberi. Under
American care, they are slowly regaining their strength and
malnutrition is being combated by vitamin B1 injections. Here, a
thin, sickly baby struggles for life in an oxygen tent made of
cellophane, while a doctor places another makeshift tent over a woman,
whose body is wasted by starvation.
Credit (ACME) (WP) |
