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

Date      

Image #

Caption

5-27-40

77.09.2016

Rolling to Safety
LOUVAIN, BELGIUM – A push cart serving as a rolling stretcher for an invalid man being wheeled to safety by a pair of younger and more fortunate men. The scene is in Louvain, Belgium, where some of the extensive bomb wreckage is plainly seen.
Credit: (ACME)

5-27-40

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Innocent Victim of Nazi Airmen
France - A French hospital nun comforting a refugee youth painfully wounded as he fled a merciless German air attack. (Photo flown to New York by Clipper)
Credit: ACME

5-27-40

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Machine-Gunned by Nazi Airmen
France - A nun in a French hospital comforting a little girl, living in agony after machine gun bullets fired from a low-flying German plane pierced her tiny body as she fled to hoped for safety.
Credit: ACME

5-29-40

77.09.791

Bombs Wreck Church in France
France—Its vaulted ceiling blasted away, this church in France stands roofless after an attack by German airmen.
Credit: ACME

5-29-40

77.09.793

Rest In Peace
France—Resting places of living and dead alike feel the scourge of air raiders’ bombs. This church and its graveyard were battered during an air raid over a French village.
Credit: ACME

5-29-40

77.09.1642

Advancing Through Belgium
BELGIUM—German bicycle units advancing over a pontoon bridge thrown across a river in Belgium at the spot where the retreating defenders blew up a bridge, according to German caption.
Credit: ACME.

5-29-40

77.09.2037

Dallas Bureau
They Rest on Guns That Dealt Death to Foes
Weary, battle-worn gunners sleep as Belgian artillery retreats toward the coast, shortly before surrender. This picture was flown to New York by clipper plane, passed by British censors.
Credit NEA Telephoto

5-29-40

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BRITAINS GETTING READY FOR PARACHUTISTS
ENGLAND—An Army sergeant of the last war handing out rifles in eastern England to Local Defense Volunteers before their first tour of duty. Some 250,000 of these Local Defense Volunteers are ready in Britain to repel invading parachute troops.
Credit Line(ACME)

5-29-40

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Another Army – Helpless Humanity in Flight
Paris, France – Refugees, arrived in Paris, at a clothing distribution center. Fitting is by trial and error.
Credit: ACME

5-30-40

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Cablephoto
British Arrest German Consul In Iceland
Reykjavik - Dr. Gerlach, German Consul General in Reykjavik, surrounded by soldiers just after his arrest following the British occupation of Iceland.
Credit: ACME Cablephoto via Western Union

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Cablephoto
Tommies Back In England
England – Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force arriving at a port in Southeast England on board a Destroyer, after fleeing the Flanders “Hell on Earth.” An estimated half of the B.E.F., together with French and Belgian comrades, have reportedly returned to England. Photo cabled from London to New York May 31.
Credit: ACME Cablephoto

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Hail to the Vanquished
London – Spectators offering food and drink to battered members of the British Expeditionary Force as they paused at a station near London after coming across the Channel. They were among the early units of the B.E.F. to battle across Flanders to the Channel and cross under relentless German attack. Photo cabled today from London.
Credit: ACME Cablephoto via Western Europe

6-2-40

77.09.4023

Galway, Ireland -- Americans leaving on the liner President Roosevelt are pictured on the trawler that is taking them to the ship.
Credit: ACME

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As Liner President Roosevelt Sailed for U.S.
Galway, Ireland -- Some of the 824 Americans who boarded the liner President Roosevelt at Galway are shown lining the rails of the tender which carried them to the ship. Many notables were numbered among the passengers fleeing Europe’s total war. More than 100 Americans who couldn’t get passage were left behind here, but it is believed that the liner Washington, now en route to Bordeaux, would pick them up on the return voyage.
Credit: ACME

6-3-40

77.09.779

Radiotelephoto
Children Play Amid Debris of Nazi Raid on Paris
Paris, France—Paris school children playing among the debris of a building wrecked in the Nazi bombing raid on Paris on June 3^rd. French officials say that ten children were killed when a bomb struck a school. This picture, passed by the French censor, was flashed to New York from Paris by radio.
Credit: ACME radiophoto

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RADIOPHOTO
BELGIAN SOLDIERS HAND OVER THEIR ARMS
BELGIUM—Nazi censor says this radiophoto shows Belgian loading their rifles on a truck after Kin g Leopold’s recent surrender of his army to Germany. The surrendered warriors are apparently doing the work, and Nazi troops may be seen closely watching the loading. Photo flashed to New York from Berlin, June 2.
Credit: Acme Radiophoto

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Radiophoto
Victim of Nazi Air Raid on Paris
Paris – Air Raid precautions workers standing by the body of one of the victims of the first German Air Raid on Paris, June 2. The body is covered by a sack. Nazi bombing planes were said to have rained more than 1,000 bombs on the French capital and suburbs, causing 200 casualties, 45 of them fatal, striking five schools and killing ten children. Photo radioed from Paris to New York, June 3.
Credit: ACME Radiophoto

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DESTRUCTION FROM THE SKY
PARIS—Parisians examine an automobile wrecked and burned, the French censor said, during a German air raid on the French Capital, June 3. Note front of building in right background has been blown out. Photo radioed from Paris to New York, June 4.
Credit Line (ACME)

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ACME Cablephoto
ALLIED TROOPS EVACUATING DUNKERQUE WADE TO RESCUE SHIPS
DUNKERQUE, FRANCE—Allied troops are shown wading out from the sandy beaches of Dunkerque to ships of the rescue fleet in this picture flashed to New York from London by cable, June 4^th. Part of one of the rescue ships can be seen in the right foreground. The evacuation of the Allied “Lost Army” from Dunkerque was reported completed as the German high command claimed the capture of the port.
Credit Line (ACME Cablephoto)

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Cablephoto
Nurses Lauded For Work At Dunkirk
London – Praise has been heaped on the nurses attending the wounded men trapped in Dunkirk, French channel port cut off by the Nazis, and on the hospital ships transporting troops back to England. One of them, wounded when a German bomb struck the hospital ship Paris crossing the channel to England, shown being taken from a hospital train. Photo flashed to New York, June 4, via cable.
Credit: ACME Cablephoto

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Radiophoto
Nazis Cripple Fort on Maginot Line
Berlin – “German bomb craters in a French fort of the Maginot line” was the information accompanying this radiophoto sent to New York, June 4, after being okayed by the German censor.
Credit: ACME

6-5-40

77.09.2015

Radiophoto
British Leaving Dunkerque in Hail of Fire
DUNKERQUE, FRANCE – The last contingent of British Expeditionary Force Troops to leave the Flanders battlefields, are shown going through Dunkerque to their embarkation point in the midst of the German bombardment, according to the French censored caption flashed here by radio with this picture, June 4.
Credit: (ACME Radiophoto)

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RAILWAY BRIDGE BLASTED TO HALT NAZI ADVANCE
FRANCE – A French railway bridge being blasted, presumably in an attempt to impede the German advance during the Battle of Flanders.  (Photo flown to New York by Clipper)
Credit: Acme

6-13-40

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FRENCH SUPPLY COLUMN BOMBED
FRANCE –Shattered wreckage of a French supply mechanized column, after destruction by German aerial bombardment near Peronne, according to Nazi-censored caption.
Credit: Acme

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BRITISH CRUISER SUNK BY ITALIAN SUBMARINE
LONDON, ENG. – First British man o’ war to fall victim to Italy’s powerful submarine fleet, was the cruiser Calypso, 4, 180-ton warcraft shown above,  An announcement by the British admiralty disclosed today, (June 15).  The cruiser, built in 1917 and refitted in 1929, was sunk in the Mediterranean.  It’s normal complement was more than 400 officers and men.
Credit: Acme