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

Date      

Image #

Caption

5-12-45

77.09.1095

CHICAGO BUREAU
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH
ANDERSON, S.C. – Visibly shaken after a close encounter with death, these seven people are shown before the combination store and filling station which was uprooted by a tornado and carried a distance of 150 feet. Left to right: Calvin Cross; Harbin Nash, and son; Mrs. Harbin Nash; Jack Moore; Junior Nash, and Mrs. H. A. Nash. All miraculously escaped injury, but hundreds of canned food containers were burst by the terrific pressure inside the structure.
Credit: ACME

5-12-45

77.09.3901

Chicago Bureau
Farewell to Arms
Fort Sheridan, Ill. – Sgt. Rudolph Kolenic (right), of Muskegon, Michigan, one of 200 veterans demobilized today (May 12) at Fort Sheridan under the new point-discharge system, executes a courtly bow as Corp. Richard Lockhart, Ironwood, Michigan, credited with a score of 126 points—highest at Fort Sheridan—leaves for home, once again a civilian.
Credit: ACME

5-12-45

77.09.3902

Chicago Bureau
CIVVIES, HERE WE COME!
JEFFERSON BARRACKS, MO.—Flourishing their score cards, visual testimony of their 85 points or better, score that entitles them to honorable discharge from the service under the new point-discharge system, these vets are among the first to be processed at Jefferson Barracks. Left to Right: T/Sgt. Henry Bast, Cedar Falls, Ia.; T/5 William Archer, Mystic, Ia.; T/Sgt. Arthur Isenberg, Pleasantville, Ia.; S/Sgt. John Fitzgerald, Ames, Ia.
Credit Line (ACME)

5/21/45

77.09.2049

New York Bureau
This year, witches didn’t ride on May 1
BROCKEN, GERMANY – According to German legend, on Walpurgisnacht, May 1, witches ride though space on broomsticks and goats, then meet at the “Devil’s Pulpit” on Brocken to dance around the fire. Previously Hitler’s Youth gathered here on that night to hear their leaders, but this year neither of the devils appeared, and the only fire was lit by Sentry Pfc. Hershel Goddard, of Anderson, Ind., as protection from the howling wind atop Brocken.
Credit (ACME) (WP)

5-22-45

77.09.1727

NEW YORK BUREAU
THE QUISLING IN THE CROWD
GERMANY—While an MP stands by, a German soldier captured by the U.S. Third Army near Passau, Germany, points the finger at an SS trooper, designating him as one of the men who shot American prisoners in cold blood at Malmedy, Belgium, during the battle of the bulge. There’s no arrogance seemingly left in these men, who once lorded it over their prisoners with whip and club.
Credit: Acme

5-22-45

77.09.3991.a-b

New York Bureau
Bombers Fly Veterans Home from England
Connecticut -- The arrival of 50 battle bombers at airports between Springfield and Hartford today marked the first flight of a mass aerial ferry service from England to America, which is expected to return home more than 40,000 U.S. 8^th Air Force personnel within the next 60 days. About 1,000 men were in the first contingent. The returnees will be given 45 days leave for “temporary duty, rest and recreation.” Here, at Bradley Field, some of the B-24 Liberators of the flight land. Men in the foreground have already landed in other ships.
Credit: ACME

6-5-45

77.09.3992.a-b

New York Bureau
853 Hats in the Air
West Point, New York -- In keeping with tradition, 853 cadets toss their hats into the air as the last man in their class receives his diploma during 1945 commencement exercises at the U.S. military academy on June 5. It was the largest class ever to graduate from West Point.
Credit: ACME

6-11-45

77.09.2569

No caption

6-12-45

77.09.2568

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Surprise Attack Nets Six Jap Ships
Kurile Is. – Its stern blown away by a direct bomb hit from a Mitchell Bomber, this 2,500-ton Japanese cargo ship is dead in the water awaiting the attack from a second approaching Mitchell. The medium cargo was one of six enemy cargo and escort craft sunk or damaged by Aleutian-based Mitchells and Liberators in a surprise raid on a convoy at the Kataoka Naval Base, off Shimshu Is., in the Kuriles.
Credit: Official U.S. AAF Photo from ACME

06-22-45

77.09.3176

New York Bureau
Suicide in Vain - #2
Off Sakishima Islands – Using one of its last resorts to stop the advance of the British and Americans, Japan sent pilots out on suicide missions during the recent Okinawa campaign. This British Pacific fleet carrier was the victim of a crash-diving Jap suicide plane during recent operations off the Sakishima islands, a few hundred miles from the Japanese mainland, when the British were striking in support of U.S. operations on Okinawa.  Seven suicide planes were reported to have crashed into British ships, including two carriers, neither of which was put out of action for more than a couple of hours.  Photo shows: Thanks to the efficiency of the firefighting crews, the main part of the blaze has been extinguished, and they spray their equipment on the smoldering wreckage on the flight deck of the carrier.  Operations were delayed only two hours.
Credit (British official photo from ACME)

7-11-45

77.09.1134

NEW YORK BUREAU
WELCOME HOME, BOYS!
NEW YORK – Returning soldiers jamming the decks of the giant transport Queen Mary get enthusiastic welcomes from Red Cross workers filling the pier. The Mary, one of eight transports which docked in New York today, carried 15,642 troops, including 7,000 members of the Canadian First Army, who boarded special trains for Canada immediately after docking.
Credit: ACME

7-11-45

77.09.3906

New York Bureau
7,607 Dreams Come True
New York – Its signal flags fluttering in the breeze, and its decks lines with 7,607 eager Yanks of the 87^th Division, the Navy transport West Point, largest Navy transport afloat, noses into her slip at Pier 88, North River, today (July 11). New York skyline rises in the background, a welcome sight for these battle-weary soldiers. Also aboard were a group of Japanese diplomats from the Embassy in Berlin, bound for internment.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME

7-13-45

77.09.3947

Looks Fishy
Lake James, N.C.—If this poor fish had known enough to keep his mouth shut, he would never have wound up as a hat. But he didn’t, so consequently Helen Steele, Asheville, N.C., has a fragrant new hat. The bass was caught in Lake James, N.C., by a fisherman friend of Helen’s.
Credit: ACME.

8-4-45

77.09.2305.a

DUMMY FLEET FOOLED NAZIS
For nearly two years of war the British Navy used a phantom fleet of wooden warships fitted with dummy guns to fool enemy recon aircraft and bombers, it is now revealed. The dummy fleet consisted of merchant ships with elaborate superstructures of plywood and canvas, painted to transform them into replicas of battleships and an aircraft carrier. They were used as bait for U-boats, and as aerial decoys to draw air attack from base ships at Scapa Flow and in the Firth of Forth. A real battleship, the 33-year-old HMS Centurian, carried this make-believe into foreign waters with success. As the camouflaged version of 35,000-ton HMS Anson, the Centurian sailed over 20,000 miles during which she was repeatedly attacked. Unsung heroes of the British Navy are the courageous crew members of this dummy fleet who faced the enemy almost unarmed.
NEW YORK BUREAU
This is HMS Centurian decked out in fitting camouflage which makes her a creditable imitation of the new 35,000-ton HMS Anson. In June, 1942, she sailed in a Malta convoy that was intercepted by the Italian Fleet. She was repeatedly attacked by bombers, hit once and damaged by several near misses. Her greatest danger was that her wooden guns might catch fire. After sailing as far as the Indian Ocean, the Centurian was finally sunk as a block ship off the Normandy Coast on D-Day to form a breakwater for landing craft.

8-14-45

77.09.320

New York Bureau
Once in a Lifetime!
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- When hours of waiting were ended by the announcement that the war with Japan was over, crowds jammed Times Square from side to side and from 42nd Street to 50th Street. Here, the photographer pictures the largest crowd that ever jammed the famous square. Photo was taken looking North from 42nd Street.
Credit: (ACME)

8-17-45

77.09.3847

Chicago Bureau
Travel 1,000 Miles by Horseback
Seattle, Wash.—Angered by rationing board’s refusal to grant extra gas for trip to northwest, Mrs. Frances N. Davis (left) and Mrs. Nellie McDonald arrive in Seattle, Wash., completing 1,000 mile horseback ride they started June 7 from Santa Cruz, Calif. They intend to return to California on horseback despite lifting of gasoline rationing.

9-10-45

77.09.321

New York Bureau
Down in Nagasaki - When Atomic Bomb Struck
NAGASAKI, JAPAN -- Rescue workers carry the body of an atomic bomb victim through the still-smoking streets of ruined Nagasaki. Crushed and crumbling ruins can be seen on every side of the doomed city, while fallen telephone wires string across the front of photo. This exclusive ACME photo was obtained by Andrew Lopez, ACME Photographer for the War Picture Pool, through civilian sources.
Credit: (ACME)

10-9-52

77.09.3082

New York Bureau
Allied Convoy Fights Through to Russia
A pall of smoke rises from an Allied merchant vessel which was sunk during the four-day attack by Nazi torpedo planes and u-boats which intercepted the largest United Nations convoy attempting to reach a Russian Arctic port recently. Despite the intensive enemy action, the larger part of the convoy delivered its cargo intact. (Passed by Censors).
Credit: ACME

11-5-73

77.09.1549

New York Bureau
Two Points of View
ITALY—“Whatever made the Nazis think they could win this war, anyway,” might be the topic of conversation for this group: a British Corporal, driver, and German prisoner, who chat in Italy. They are Cpl. G.E. Sankey, of Birmingham, Dvr. H. Finamore, from Devon, and Sgt. Emile Ererich (center), of Vienna. The wing of this Allied plane, held in place by the flaps which will be lowered.
Credit: ACME.

10-21-74

77.09.2966

U.S. MARINES FIGHT FIRE IN BOMBED HANGAR
This Photo, which has just been released and which is from an Official U.S. Marine Corps newsreel, shows American Marines on Guadalcanal Island fighting fire and rescuing equipment from a hangar on Henderson Field, set afire during a recent attack by Japanese bombers. Note drums of fuel, (foreground), salvaged from the blaze.
Credit: U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO FROM ACME.

09-12-2

77.09.3448

New York Bureau
American Planes Over African Desert
Middle East – Medium bombers of the U.S. Army Air Force fly in formation over the bleak desert in the Middle East, where they are harrying the supply lines and bases of the axis.  The planes are camouflaged so as to blend with the color of the desert, but there is no way of erasing the sharp shadows.
Credit line (ACME)

2-27-?

77.09.4218

Sailors aboard British ship cheer British paratroopers in small landing craft as latter speed back across Channel following surprise raid on German radio station at Bruneval, near LeHavre, France, Feb. 27.
(ACME Radiophoto from Telephoto)

11-29-29

77.09.3743.a

Radiophoto
French Bring Back Prisoners on Western Front
Two German prisoners captured by French soldiers on Western front are marched to the French Field Intelligence Office for questioning. Prisoner in foreground is camera shy, hides his face. Second prisoner, center, doesn’t mind being photographed.
Credit: ACME.