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2-5-41 |
77.09.46 |
Attractive
London – Attention compelling is this pretty young lady and her
oversized “binoculars” as she parades through Regent Street, keeping a
sharp lookout for anyone answering her appeal for binoculars for use
by the fighting forces.
Credit: (ACME) |
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2-5-41 |
77.09.301 |
Life in a British Sea Fort
ENGLAND -- Men off duty in a sea fort of the Southern Command rest in
their bunks in the fort's living quarters. These sea forts, huge
structures of steel and concrete which bristle with guns, are anchored
off shore and are jointly manned by Army and Navy personnel.
Credit: (ACME) |
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02-05-41 |
77.09.3487 |
Skipping Over an Anti-Tank Ditch
Bardia, Libya – Sappers with the British army attacking Bardia,
fortified Italian Libyan seaport, watch tanks and bren gun carriers
crossing an anti-tank ditch which they have bridged with earth and
stones. Driving on in to Bardia, the British claim capture of 38,000
Italian soldiers, including four generals.
Credit line (ACME) |
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02-05-41 |
77.09.3515.a |
…Libya - - This general view gives some idea of the Italian defenses
here, which the British troops broke through in their recent swift
attack on the fortified Italian Libyan seaport. The British claim
that 34,000 troops four generals and vast amounts of war materials
were captured in the fall of the city.
Credit line (ACME) |
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2-5-41 |
77.09.3726a |
Scotland—Members of a battalion of the Queen’s own Cameron
Highlanders, training in the shows of their native Scotland at the
Infantry Training Center, construct a Kapok bridge across a river. The
Highlanders are training for the invasion, but the caption on this
official British picture does not state if the training is for a
defense against invaders or for an invasion by the British forces.
Credit: ACME.
Passed by British censor—via Clipper. |
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2-6-41 |
77.09.616 |
Los Angeles Bureau
Four of a Kind
FORT MAC ARTHUR, SAN PEDRO, CALIF. – We’re in the Army now and like
it. Such is the talk of the four Carson brothers. Wayne, Samuel and
Alfred Carson enlisted last October. The fourth just joined up, and
now they plan for the fifth brother to enlist.
Photo shows: (left to right) William L. 28, Wayne Q. 25, Samuel M. 20,
and Alfred J. Carson, 18. The brothers are members of the 69th
Quarter master Battalion at Fort MacArthur.
Credit: (ACME) |
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2-7-41 |
77.09.1385 |
SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU
ON THE RETREAT, ITALIANS LEAVE RUIN IN ALBANIA
ON THE ALBANIAN FRONT—Retreating Italians, fleeing the cold steel and
dauntless courage of victorious Greek forces, dynamited this bridge
near Kligura as an obstacle in the path of the victors. This is one of
the first pictures to reach the United States of the war in Albania. |
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2-7-41 |
77.09.1645 |
Italian Warship Burning at Fall of Tobruk
TOBRUK—The Italian cruiser San Giorgio ablaze in Tobruk Harbor as the
Italian stronghold fell to the combined British land, sea and aerial
forces. Photo cabled from London to New York.
Credit: ACME CABLEPHOTO. |
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2-7-41 |
77.09.3826 |
Illegible caption |
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2-8-41 |
77.09.2021 |
Mass Collection of Italian Prisoners
BARDIA – This picture taken at Bardia by an Air Ministry official
photographer, shows prisoners, prisoners, and more prisoners. This
huge mass collected near the town of Bardia wait shipment to a camp.
Credit: (ACME) |
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2-13-41 |
77.09.1140 |
TO SLOW UP THE ENEMY
This is all that remains of a stone bridge that was once a sturdy
highway across the Albanian River. Italian troops, retreating before a
Greek advance, blew up the structure.
Credit: ACME |
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2-13-41 |
77.09.1757 |
GUARDING A CAPTURED PILLBOX
A Greek soldier somewhere in Albania stands guard at the door of
captured pillbox that a short time ago sheltered Italian gunners.
Credit: Acme |
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2-13-41 |
77.09.2373 |
MOVING UP IN ALBANIA
Greek troops, aided by pack mules, advance over the snow covered
mountains of Albania toward the front lines.
Credit: Acme |
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2-14-41 |
77.09.1309 |
PRACTICING FOR THE ITALIAN INVASION
ROME—According to the Italian High Command, British parachute troops
armed with machine guns, hand grenades and dynamite to flow up
communications in lower Italy, landed in the Lucania and Calabria
provinces on the night of Feb. 10-11. The report stated the men were
captured before they could cause any serious damage. In the above
photo British troops are shown being transported by air in large
numbers for the first time in Army practice maneuvers held recently in
England.
Credit: Acme |
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02-17-41 |
77.09.2851 |
Turning Out Guns for the East Indian Army
Bandoeng, Java – This Army ordnance shop in Bandoeng, Java, is busily
turning out coast artillery pieces and range finding instruments in
the Netherlands Indies great rearmament program. In the background is
a standard Army 8 centimeter anti-aircraft gun. The Dutch colonial
government is determined that the Netherlands Indies shall not fall
prey to unpreparedness and is building up its Armed Forces with the
utmost speed.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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3-7-41 |
77.09.3613 |
Near East Oil Fields Rumored German Coal
Ankara, Turkey—Travelers from Bucharest arrived here March 7 report
that Germany army officers in Rumania are talking openly of the
“coming invasion” of the Iraq and Mosul oilfields which supply the
vital fuel for the British army in the Near East. The attack, they
say, may come through Turkey, or Russia, or across the Black Sea. The
ancient land of Iraq has some of the most productive oil fields in the
world. They are well-guarded by both Iraq and British forces. Above,
an Iraq Petroleum Company watchman, wearing uniform and official arm
badge, stands guard at oil tanks to prevent sabotage. (Foto from file)
Credit: ACME. |
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3-7-41 |
77.09.3614 |
These May Be German Luftwaffe Targets
Ankara, Turkey—Travelers from Bucharest arriving here March 7 report
that German army officers in Rumania are talking openly of the “coming
invasion” of the Iraq and Mosul oilfields which supply the vital fuel
to the British army in the Near East. The Iraq pipeline, winding for
more than 600 miles across hills, rivers, plains and desert to Haifa,
Palestinian port on the Mediterranean, is one of the British’s main
oil arteries. This cluster of oil storage tanks is in Haifa, at the
end of the line. They offer conspicuous targets from the air for
German bombers. (Foto from file)
Credit: ACME. |
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3-11-41 |
77.09.2312 |
GETTING THE LAST LAUGH
DERNA—These British infantrymen who participated in the capture of
Derna counted this portrait of Mussolini among their prizes of war.
The Tommies are getting quite a laugh from the “bull-dog” expression.
Credit: Acme |
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3-11-41 |
77.09.2519 |
CROSSING VITAL GROUND
DERNA—British infantry attack a fort at one of the key positions of
Derna. Infantrymen are shown crossing the vital ground just outside
the fort, on their way to capture it.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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3-16-41 |
77.09.348 |
ACME Cablephoto
Many Killed as Bomb Strikes London Bus
LONDON, ENGLAND -- Rescue workers frantically search the ruins of a
bus struck by a German bomb during the early morning air raid of Mar.
16th for the bodies of passengers killed. "A considerable number" of
persons perished when the bomb struck, according to the British
censor-passed caption. This picture was flashed to New York from
London by cable.
Credit: (ACME cablephoto) |
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3-16-41 |
77.09.1207 |
RADIOPHOTO
HOW GERMANY WARS ON BRITISH SHIPPING FROM AIR
GERMANY – A huge volume of smoke and flame pour from the stricken
British freighter as she explodes before sinking after being struck by
explosive and incendiary bombs dropped on her by a long-range German
bomber, according to the German censor-passed caption on this, one of
a series of dramatic pictures of how German bombers prey on British
shipping.
Credit: ACME |
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3-16-41 |
77.09.1209 |
HOW GERMANY WARS ON BRITISH SHIPPING FROM AIR
GERMANY
– The stricken British freighter settles beneath the waves, a cloud of
smoke marking her resting place, according to the German censor-passed
caption on this picture of how long-range German bombers are striking
at Britain’s shipping lifeline.
Credit: ACME |
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3-16-41 |
77.09.1210 |
HOW GERMANY WARS ON BRITISH SHIPPING FROM AIR
GERMANY
– In this graphic series of pictures released by the German censor and
just received in the United States by clipper, is shown how Germany is
striking telling blows upon the British shipping lifeline with its
long-range bombers. According to the German censor, represented is a
bombed British freighter sinking low in the water as the effects of
explosive and incendiary bombs cause it to head toward the bottom of
the ocean.
Credit: ACME |
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3-16-41 |
77.09.1211 |
HOW GERMANY WARS ON BRITISH SHIPPING FROM AIR
GERMANY – The manner in which Germany is striking telling blows at
Great Britain’s shipping lifeline is illustrated in a graphic manner
in this series of pictures, released by the German censor, of how a
long-range German bomber, ranging far at sea to deliver the attack,
sinks a British freighter. Here, almost directly over the stricken
vessel, the pilot sees the rapidly spreading flames roar through the
ship.
Credit: ACME |
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3-18-41 |
77.09.1100 |
AIR MARSHAL INSPECTS FLIERS OF THE FUTURE
ENGLAND – Air Marshal A. G. R. Garrod, Air Member for Training,
inspects the Tiffin Boys’ School Unit of the Air Training Corps during
a recent tour of inspection. The boys, still in their school clothes,
stand stiffly at attention. These youngsters are learning the
rudiments of flying and may some day, should the war last long enough,
take their places in the first line of Britain’s aerial defense.
(Passed by British censor).
Credit: ACME |
