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12-13-40 |
77.09.3868a |
Army’s Armored Division Crosses River
Fort Knox, KY—Despite rain and mud, engineers of the First Armored
Division erect a pontoon bridge during river crossing exercises,
December 13. 11-ton tanks and armored cars safely crossed the river on
the completed project. Other machines were ferried across on pontoon
boats.
Credit: ACME. |
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12-17-40 |
77.09.1391 |
IN DEFENSE OF GERMANY
GERMANY—A heavy German “flak,” or anti-aircraft gun, in the foreground
and another in the distance belch forth clouds of smoke and flame as
they go into action against British planes over Germany.
Credit: Acme |
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12-17-40 |
77.09.2278 |
Italian Ship Dodges British Shells
SARDINIA – Shells from a British warship drop perilously near an
Italian ship during a naval engagement off the south coast of
Sardinia.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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12-23-40 |
77.09.3958 |
American Committee Brings Over 25 Refugees
Jersey City, N.J.—Children of six nationalities were among the 25
arriving on the American export liner Excambion from Lisbon through
the efforts of the American Committee for the Care of European
Children and the Unitarian Service Committee as the first group to be
brought to this country under the Committee’s sponsorship. French,
Russian, Austrian, German, Polish, and Czecho-Slovakian make up the
group, shown here as they entered New York Harbor aboard the ship.
Credit: ACME. |
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12-25-40 |
77.09.2520 |
GERMANS BUILDING CHANNEL FORTIFICATIONS
A giant crane, hoisting steel girders into position as supports for
one of the huge gun emplacements built by the Germans along the
Channel coast facing England. Yesterday, (Dec. 24), Nazi officials
boasted that their line of fortifications extended for 620 miles along
the channel.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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12-25-40 |
77.09.2525 |
GERMANS BUILDING CHANNEL FORTIFICATIONS
A battery of concrete mixers in operation at a point along the Channel
coast; where Germans say they have built a line of fortifications
extending for 620 miles.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.277 |
More Anti-Invasion Snares
ENGLAND -- As new fears of a German invasion attempt on England, these
Tommies strung more barbed wire to strengthen defenses along the
English south coast.
Credit: (ACME) |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.1243 |
Radiophoto
French Syrian Troops Aid British in Desert. NORTH AFRICA – Members of
the French Colonial Army in Syria, who have joined British Forces in
the Desert Campaign, are shown leaving their trucks at a point in the
desert. Passed by Censors.
Credit: ACME |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.1395 |
GREEK BISHOP BLESSES BRITISH TANKS
KHANIA, CRETE—The Bishop of Khania (Canea), Greek town on the Isle of
Crete gave his official blessing to British men and equipment arriving
to help his countrymen in their struggle against the Italians, and
here he is shown blessing the Bren gun carriers and light tanks in the
presence of soldiers and townspeople. Each soldier kissed the cross
and received the Episcopal benediction, according to British-censored
caption accompanying this photo.
Credit: Acme |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.3572 |
British Guns Boom on the Desert
Smoke pours from the breech as a British heavy field gun speaks from
its camouflaged emplacement on the Western Desert. Artillery of all
types played an important part in recent British successes against
Italian forces on the desert.
Credit: ACME. |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.3723a |
Norse Ready to Help England Stem Invasion
Norse Ready to Help England Thwart Invasion
England—As England prepared to meet new threats of invasion, these
Norweigan tankmen participated in large-scale maneuvers “somewhere in
Britain,” together with British forces. Among the interested
spectators was Crown Prince Olaf, of Norway, who recently flew to the
United States to spend Christmas with his Princess and family
Credit: ACME. |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.4478a |
Refugee, English Style
Southampton, England – To the long lines of refugees from
Hitler-conquered countries are added now English civilians driven from
their homes by bombs and forced to seek shelter in other more
fortunate towns. These residents of Southampton, their homes
destroyed, are waiting on the city limits for a passing car or truck
to carry them away to more peaceful areas. Passed by British Censor.
Credit: ACME |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.4479ab |
Free French Bring Destroyer To British Navy
One of the French vessels joining the English Navy under the banner of
Free France after the surrender of their homeland was this Destroyer.
Here Free French sailors display their flag aboard the Destroyer.
Passed by British Censors.
Credit: ACME |
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12-26-40 |
77.09.4614ab |
Torpedoed British Destroyer Makes Port
England – Her decks awash and listing heavily, the British destroyer
flotilla leader H.M.S. Kelly is shown in this remarkable picture after
she had been struck by a torpedo from a German motor torpedo boat.
Members of her crew can be seen on the listing decks. The Kelly was
towed into a British port and refitted, disproving the German claims
made in a communiqué last May that she had been sent to the bottom.
The torpedoing took place in the North Sea off the coast of Germany.
Passed by British censor.
Credit: ACME |
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12-27-40 |
77.09.1748 |
SOUP’S ON FOR ITALIAN PRISONERS
Anxiously lined up for food are these Italian prisoners—many with
heads shaved—shown at an undisclosed Greek internment camp. Thousands
of Mussolini’s soldiers have a similar existence.
Credit: Acme |
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12-27-40 |
77.09.2331 |
MAKING THE ENEMY AT HOME
THE WESTERN DESERT—An Italian airman shot down in a battle over Mersa
Matruh Oct. 31 receives a bandage for his wound and a cigarette for
his nerves from attendants at an R.A.F. desert medical station.
According to British-censored caption accompanying this photo twelve
Italian planes were shot down in the engagement, eight of them in
flames, and this airman was the only survivor of the 35 flying the
planes.
Credit: Acme |
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12-27-40 |
77.09.3444 |
Hurricanes in the Middle East
The Middle East – A flight of hurricane fighters on patrol on the
Middle East front breaks to attack enemy aircraft reported to them by
radio, according to British-censored caption with this striking photo.
Credit line (ACME) |
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12-27-40 |
77.09.3451 |
A Last Courtesy
Mersa Mat run, Egypt – An R.A.F. airman places a cross made from the
wreckage of their S.79 plane over the grave of five Italian airmen
shot down in battle over the desert Oct. 31. Eight Italian aircraft
were shot down in flames, four were seriously damaged, and only one of
the 35 airmen flying the twelve planes escaped death.
Credit line (ACME) |
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12-27-40 |
77.09.4350a |
In Defense of the Scottish Coast
Scotland -- A shell is rammed into the breech of a six-inch gun during
gunnery practice along the east coast of Scotland.
Credit: ACME |
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12-28-40 |
77.09.606 |
U.S. Army Trains for Winter Fighting
PLATTSBURG BARRACKS, N.Y. – Army officials haven’t overlooked the
phase of winter fighting. At Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., a group of
recruits look on as another fires a machine gun in subzero temperature
along the shore of Lake Champlain. The instructor (directly behind the
gunner) is Lieut. Albert R. Cupello, of the 26th Infantry.
Credit: (ACME) |
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12-29-40 |
77.09.1288 |
Cablephoto
Captured Italians Leave Sidi Barrani
SIDI BARRANI, EGYPT – The ruins of their base in the background, some
of the more than 10,000 Italians captured by the British at Sidi
Barrini march away to spend the remainder of the war in a desert
prison camp. Fartherest point of Italian penetration into Egypt, the
base was retaken by the British Dec. 11 after a heavy
bombardment from land, air, and sea.
Credit: (ACME CABLEPHOTO) |
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12-29-40 |
77.09.2039 |
German Bombs Fire British Oil Tanks
ENGLAND – British oil storage tanks at Pembroke Dock burning, after
bombing by German planes, according to Berlin-approved caption.
Credit: (ACME) |
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12-29-40 |
77.09.3459 |
Captured Italians Await Internment
Cairo, Egypt - - Guarded by a light tank crew, scores of Italians
taken prisoner by the British in the capture of Sidi Barrani sit
disconsolately awaiting transportation to a prison camp where they
will remain for the duration. It was reported that 30,000 prisoners
were taken after a land, sea and air bombardment had subdued Italian
forces occupying the desert base. Passed by British censors, this is
the first photo received in this country from North Africa since the
start of the English counter-offensive.
Credit line (ACME Cable photo) |
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12-29-40 |
77.09.3517 |
Cable photo
Victorious British Enter Sidi Barrani
Sidi Barrani, Egypt - - Past a stone monument erected by the Italians
in celebration of their capture of Sidi Barrani, British bren gun
carriers and larger armored units roll triumphantly as they retook the
strategic desert town.
Credit line (ACME cable photo) |
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12-30-40 |
77.09.3541 |
Under Fire
Somewhere in Libya—Communications men stationed at a forward
observation post carry out their duties under heavy shell fire during
one of Rommel’s delaying actions, fought west of Agheila, which failed
so dismally. Latest reports on the British 8th Army
indicate that the Allied troops have broken across the Wadi
Bel-el-Chebir, the first of the remaining three possible lines of
defense along the Libyan coast. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
