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

Date      

Image #

Caption

6-16-40

77.09.1653

Refugee Liner Sails for U.S.
GALWAY, IRELAND—The United States liner Washington leaving Galway, Ireland, with more than 1,000 American war refugees on board. The ship narrowly escaped torpedoing off the coast of Portugal, while in route from Italy to Ireland, when a U-boat stopped it.
Credit: ACME CABLEPHOTO.

6-20-40

77.09.4128a

ANGRY ENGLISHMEN GATHER IN LONDON’S ITALIAN SECTION
LONDON – Angry crowns were still gathering in Old Compton Street.  London’s Italian settlement.  The day after Mussolini announced his country’s entrance into the war.  Many miner disturbances resulted in damage such as the smashed café window at right.
Credit: Acme

6-30-40

77.09.3792

“Parachute Troops” Get the Works at “Coney Island.”
New York City—The latest innovation at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, is a shooting gallery in which the targets are “Parachute Troops.” Pleasure seekers at the resort prefer these targets to the conventional floating ducks and similar targets. The “jumpers” float down from the ceiling of the gallery and are popped at as they descend. One of the much perforated targets is seen floating down while would-be marksmen shoot at others.
Credit: ACME.

7-11-40

77.09.3571

Italians in British Prison Camp
Egypt—Italian officers, among the first prisoners taken in fighting on the Eastern front, walking inside the barbed-wire enclosure of a British prison camp in Egypt.
Credit: ACME.

7-11-40

77.09.4538a

Last Stand
France – Taking cover amid a ripening crop, Irish soldiers, fighting their way back to the coast before the collapse of France watch a bomber drop destruction on the Former Republic.
Credit: ACME

7-14-40

77.09.4535a

Cablephoto
Tanker Blazes in the Channel
London – A British bomber flies above a blazing enemy tanker in the English Channel as Great Britain lashes out against enemy shipping in reprisal to raids upon her own merchant marine. Photo passed by British censor and sent from London to New York via Western Union cable, July 14^th.
Credit: ACME 

7-27-40

77.09.1640

Emblem of the Enemy
ISLE OF JERSEY—A German soldier examining the British Royal Emblem on a cannon on the Isle of Jersey, as the British Possession, in the English Channel near France, along with the nearby Isle of Guernsey, was occupied by Nazi forces.
Credit: ACME.

7-29-40

77.09.4094a

Dive Bomber Attack On British Convoy
Southeast Coast of England - This remarkable picture, one of the first ever taken of an air attack on a shipping convoy, was made as massed German Dive Bombers, protected by swarms of Messerschmitt Fighting Planes, dropped their deadly cargoes around a convoy on the Southeast coast of England. Great columns of water can be seen rising from bombs bursting in the sea near a British Destroyer. A group of ships can be seen in the foreground. This picture was made during the first massed air raid against England. British sources say that 150 planes engaged in a furious battle around the convoy and that ten of the Nazi craft were destroyed. Passed by British Censor
Credit: ACME

7-30-40

77.09.4152a

CAPTURE NAZI PLANE DISGUISED WITH RED CROSS
LONDON – A German seaplane marked with the Red Cross down on the sea after being captured by the British royal air force, who shot down two such planes yesterday.  According to British authorities German planes bearing the Red Cross have been making scouting flights over British convoys and doing other reconnaissance work in violation of international law, and henceforth would operated near the British Isles at their own risk.  In the background is the boat that picked up the crew of the German plane.  Passed by British censor and sent to New York by Western Union cabel, July 30^th.
Credit: Acme

8-7-40

77.09.3729a

Britain’s Home Guard Studies Guerrilla Warfare
Middlesex, England—Members of Britain’s ever-increasing Home Guard who desire to have instruction in guerilla warfare tactics are attending a privately run school at Osterley Park. The courses are designed to show how to improvise to meet new situations and to use guile in overcoming the enemy. All instructors are experienced veterans. Here, some of the students take notes during an open air lecture.
Credit: ACME.

8-7-40

77.09.4090a

Britain’s Home Guard Studies Guerrilla Warfare
Middlesex, England - Members of Britain’s ever-increasing Home Guard who desire instruction in guerrilla warfare tactics are attending a privately run school at Osterley Park. The courses are designed to show how to meet new situations and how to use guile in overcoming the enemy. All instructors are experienced veterans. Here, Home Guards, some of them still in civilian clothing, practice hand grenade throwing from prone positions. The air is filled with missiles used in practice.
Credit: ACME

8-7-40

77.09.4120a

BRITAIN’S HOME GUARD STUDIES GUERRILLA WARFARE
MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND –Members of Britain’s home guard who desire instruction in Guerilla warfare tactics are taking courses at a privately run school at Osterly Park.  The courses are designed to show students how to use guile in overcoming the enemy.  All the instructors are experienced veterans.  Here a group of the students jump a ditch during training.
Credit: Acme

8-8-40

77.09.949.a

(handwritten) Potsdam, N.Y.
War games tanks

8-8-40

77.09.1384

NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER BOUND FOR ENGLAND BURNS
NEW YORK CITY—Fireboat and Coast Guard vessels fighting fire aboard the Norwegian freighter Lista, 3,671 tons, as it turned about in outer New York Harbor and headed back to port. The ship later went aground in flames and was abandoned by its crew of 28. The ship carrying a heavy cargo for Britain, went aground near West Bank Light, with the fire out of control.
Credit: Acme

8-11-40

77.09.4551a

Target of Nazi Aerial Blitzkrieg
Portland, England – View of the harbor of Portland, England, showing warships anchored in naval drydock (foreground). Portland was the objective of fiercest aerial bombardment of the war on August 11, when wave after wave of Nazi bombers, accompanied by fleets of fighting planes, rained their deadly loads on the harbor works and anchored ships, doing tremendous damage, according to Berlin statement. The attack on Portland was part of the aerial blitzkrieg against other British ports.
Credit: ACME

8-15-40

77.09.2023

Cleveland Bureau
Germans Bomb Croydon, Hub of Britain’s Airlines
German dive bombers penetrated to the outskirts of London to attack the great commercial airport at Croydon, above, as they intensified their air blitzkrieg. British claim to have driven off the Stukas in a dog fight over the field which is now the base for R.A.F. activities
Credit (ACME)

8-18-40

77.09.3529

British Column Wrecked by Italians
British Somaliland—The caption for this picture, passed by German censor, said: “A column of enemy trucks that were making an advance on Italian territory in Africa. They were demolished by the marksmanship of the Italian air arm.”
Credit: ACME.

8-18-40

77.09.4130a

FRENCH COMMUNICATIONS EMPLOYEES RETURN HOME
CLERMONT – FERRAND, FRANCE – Any employees of the P.T.T. (post, telephone and telegraph) who were here have been sent back to their posts by the administration.  P.T.T. employees wait at the window of their compartment for the train taking them to the capital to leave.

08-24-40

77.09.3350

Plane Crash Kills Three Australian Ministers
Canberra, Australia - - Wreckage of a transport plane that crashed near Canberra, Australia, Aug. 14, killing all ten occupants – three federal ministers, two high Army officers and five others.  (photo flown across the Pacific on the new Pan American airways San Francisco-Auckland, New Zealand, Clipper route)
Credit line (ACME)

8-26-40

77.09.1520

(caption is torn and illegible)
…Explosions wrecking the Italian fort Maddalena, during British bombardment, according to London.
Credit Line (ACME)

8-27-40

77.09.2206

Radiophoto
German Picture of Portsmouth
BERLIN – Puffs of smoke mushrooming up (left center) as German planes bombarded the Admiralty Wharves at Portsmouth. This airview was sent from Germany by radio on Aug. 27^th.
Credit Line (Acme)

8-30-40

77.09.283

Dobbins Draws the Danes
COPENHAGEN -- To retain its business in the face of gasoline shortage, a Copenhagen bus company had coaches re-equipped in this manner to transport the population of the German-occupied Danish capital by horse-on-the-hoof-power, with top-hatted drivers at the reins.
Credit: (ACME)

8-31-40

77.09.3724a

Business as Usual at Port of London
London—Denying German reports that the Port of London was put out of operation by smashing Nazi air raids, the British censor released the picture, showing ships in dock at the port, and a caption reading “Port of London a hive of industry.”
Credit: ACME.

8-31-40

77.09.3764

Business as Usual at Port of London
London—Denying German reports that the Port of London was put out of operation by smashing Nazi air raids, the British censor released this picture, showing meat arriving from New Zealand at the port, and a caption reading “Port of London a Hive of Industry.”
Credit: ACME.

8-31-40

77.09.4091

Business As Usual At Port of London
London - Denying German reports that the Port of London was put out of operation by smashing Nazi air raids, the British censor released this picture, showing flour from Australia arriving at the Port, and a caption reading “Port of London a Hive of Industry.”
Credit: ACME