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

Date      

Image #

Caption

8-31-40

77.09.4092

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 timber from Canada arriving at the Port, and a caption reading “Port of London a Hive of Industry.”
Credit: ACME

8-31-40

77.09.4151

BUSINESS AS USUAL AT THE 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 activity “going on as usual” at the port as paper is being loaded for New Zealand.
Credit: Acme

9-8-40

77.09.345

Where Bombs Wreaked Havoc in London
LONDON -- A typical street market in Whitechapel, the Jewish quarter of London's East End, where the most pitiful scenes were witnessed after the worst air raid on the British capitol last night. In this district house after house was blown to bits, with most of the occupants killed or injured.
Credit: (ACME)

9-9-40

77.09.329

Radiophoto
Women Leave Blazing Dock Area
LONDON -- Apparently not the least bit panicked by the German onslaught, these women, with faces set, leave the London dock area after air raids made it a blazing inferno. Some 2,000 residents of this area were evacuated from their flame encircled homes by a flotilla of pleasure craft that enacted a miniature Dunkirque. Photo sent from London by radio on Sept. 9th.
Credit: (ACME)

9-9-40

77.09.4226a

ITALIAN SAILORS IN MEDITERRANEAN
ON THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA – Italian sailors cling to wreckage just before rescue. These men were members of the crew of the Italian cruiser, Bartolomeo Colleoni, world’s fastest cruiser, which was sunk by the Australian cruiser Sydney in an engagement in the Mediterranean Sea early this summer.
Credit Line (ACME)

9-10-40

77.09.3741.a-b

Radiophoto
German View of London
London—This picture was snapped from a low-flying German bomber flying over the Thames River during the last bombing attacks on London last Saturday. At left, clouds of smoke may be seen drifting southwest from a burning warehouse. This picture, believed to be the first made of the mass raids, was passed by German censor and sent from Berlin by radio on Sept. 10^th.
Credit: ACME.

9-14-40

77.09.330

Cablephoto
Bomb Damage at Buckingham Palace
LONDON, ENGLAND -- The wrecked interior of the royal chapel at Buckingham Palace, after five Nazi aerial bombs had landed on or near the royal residence during yesterday's daylight raids on the British capital. The King and Queen, in the palace shelter at the time, escaped injury. It was the second bombing of the Palace in a week.
Credit: (ACME Cablephoto)

9-16-40

77.09.4207a

CABLE PHOTO
FALLEN NAZI
ENGLAND – British soldiers and police stand by an injured Nazi airmen, shot down in a battle over the South coast of England.  Photo sent from London by Western Union cable Sept. 16^th.
Credit: Acme

9-16-40

77.09.4400

Bomb Squad Volunteers Defuse Bomb During London Blitz
Credit: ACME

9-17-40

77.09.342

Hospital Wrecked by Nazi Bombs
LONDON -- Nurses view the wreckage of an unnamed hospital which was completely smashed during the fury of Germany's most intense air attack on the British capital, Sept. 16. Photo passed by censor and cabled to New York.
Credit: (ACME)

9-18-40

77.09.333

Cablephoto
Bombs Crash In London's Shopping Center
LONDON -- Bombs and fire, resulting from German air attack Sept. 17, destroyed many of the city's most fashionable department stores, located in Oxford street. This general view, cabled from London to New York, shows the extent of the attack as felt in Oxford Street.
Credit (ACME Cablephoto)

9-18-40

77.09.350

Rescue Squad at Work in London
LONDON -- Casualties of Germany's fierce air attack on London's fashionable shopping district, Sept. 17, are being taken to a place of safety. However, the "women" being carried by rescue workers are only the wax dummies blown out of windows of department stores by the bomb concussions. Many of the models just melted away in fires caused by the raid.
Credit (ACME Cablephoto)

9-19-40

77.09.4487a

Safe Landing
Newfoundland – Canadian troops walk down the gang-plank upon arrival in Newfoundland for duty. They were transported without incident by destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Credit: ACME

9-20-40

77.09.332

Fire in London Dockland Area
LONDON -- Working from emergency fire boats, firemen send streams of water into a burning building, fired by the Nazi air raids on the dockland area of London.
Credit: (ACME)

9-20-40

77.09.1798

CABLEPHOTO
WHERE NAZI PLANE FELL ON LONDON HOUSE
LONDON—Blazing wreckage of a raiding German plane after it fell and smashed a London home.
Credit: Acme Cablephoto

9-20-40

77.09.4232ab

RIVER TRAVEL TO RELIEVE LONDON CONGESTION
LONDON—This is one of new ferryboats operating on the Thames River to relieve road congestion in London. The boats, operation between Woolwich and Westminster, will run on a 20-minute schedule.
Credit Line (ACME)

9-23-40

77.09.334

Fires Rage in Bombed Dover
DOVER, ENGLAND -- Smoke drifts over the roofs of these Dover houses after one of the Nazi air raids whose frequency and fierceness on this southeast coast port have caused it to be renamed "Hell's Corner".
Credit: (Movietone News from ACME)

9-23-40

77.09.340

Fires Rage in Bombed Dover
DOVER, ENGLAND -- Smoke drifts over the roofs of these Dover houses after one of the Nazi air raids whose frequency and fierceness on this southeast coast port have caused it to be renamed "Hell's Corner".
Credit: (Movietone News from ACME)

09-23-40

77.09.3478

Libyan Barrage
Libya – Italian native artillery in action in Libya.  A recent report states that the Italian troops that advanced into Egypt from Libya filled the town of Sidi Barrani, Egypt, when it was blown to bits by land mines set off by retreating British.
Credit Line (ACME)

9-26-40

77.09.3570

As Italians Advanced on British Somaliland
British Somaliland—Italian Arab troops advancing toward Adadlei, before English forces were evacuated from British Somaliland.
Credit: ACME.

09-30-40

77.09.3458

The Bombing of Ethiopian Capital
Addis Ababa - - This is the official photograph of a royal Air Force raid on the military airfield at Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.  The official R.A.F. communiqué issued at the time stated that direct hits were registered on four hangars and that a gasoline fire was started.
Credit line (ACME)

10-1-40

77.09.4149a

ACME PHOTOGRAPHER “SHOOTS” WAR FROM SANDBAGS
DOVER, ENGLAND – H.P. Andrews, Acme newspictures staff photographer in England, operating a long focus camera from a sandbag emplacement on the Dover Cliffs, from where can be had a “grandstand” view of the war along Britain’s Southeast coast.  Andrews wears a steel helmet for additional protection.
Credit: Acme

10-3-40

77.09.1641

Nazi Arms Plant Blasted by RAF
ESSEN, GERMANY—Loading docks at the great Krupp Armaments works at Essen, Germany, where British claim that the Royal Air Force dumped bombs that effectively damaged the plant.
Credit: ACME.

10-4-40

77.09.4212a

FIRST U.S. DESTROYERS ARRIVE IN BRITAIN
A BRITISH PORT—Ships of the first flotilla of the 50 U.S. destroyers transferred to Great Britain under the ships-for-bases exchange deal to cross the Atlantic under the White Ensign, ride at anchor here after their arrival. Officers and men declared themselves well satisfied with the performance of the vessels on the crossing.
Credit Line (ACME)

10-9-40

77.09.1069

RADIOPHOTO
BOMBING SCENE – AMERICAN TYPE
NEW YORK CITY – Like a picture from the war zone is this scene of bombs bursting in air with blazing buildings forming the backdrop. The scene, however, is one of beauty and not one of horror. It is a view across Liberty Lake at the New York World’s Fair during the fireworks display on a cool, clear autumn night.
Credit: ACME photo by staff cameraman Carl Thusgaard