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12-9-41 |
77.09.1040 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
CROWDS IN TIMES SQUARE DISCUSS “AIR RAID”
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Crowd gathers around air raid warden (center,
without hat) to discuss first air raid warning in history of New York
City, in Times Square, Dec. 9 after “phony” report of enemy planes off
Atlantic Coast had sent coastal defenses into swift action.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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12-9-41 |
77.09.4386a |
New York Bureau
Women’s Pick and Shovel Gang Lays Power Cable
Southern England – Women swing picks and heft shovels, digging
trenches and laying a power cable at a Southern Railway Depot in
England. England’s acute shortage of manpower has caused officials to
ask women to volunteer for this work. The English censor’s caption on
the photo remarks, “The work is said to be as good and to be
proceeding even quicker than under normal conditions with men worker.”
Credit: ACME |
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12-10-41 |
77.09.1038 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
LOOKING FOR INVADERS
NEW YORK – This morning (Dec. 10) air raid sirens started blowing in
this city. Office workers, having just arrived at their place of
employment in midtown, scampered to the window and peered skyward,
looking for enemy planes. The alarm was shortlived, however, the all
clear being announced within a few moments. Directly in the background
can be seen the World’s Tallest Building – The Empire State Bldg.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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12-11-41 |
77.09.3248 |
New York Bureau
They’re Fighting for Britain
Malaya – Men of a battalion of the Gordon Highlanders carry out
construction work in the tropical jungle. Yesterday British and
Malayan troops fought Japanese on the beaches of Malaya, some 200
miles North of Singapore.
Credit line (ACME) |
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12-15-41 |
77.09.2597 |
Washington Bureau
Japanese Wings Over the Pacific
Washington – To Army and civilian observers in the Pacific area this
may be a familiar sight by now: It’s a heavy Japanese Bomber in three
silhouette views, and is included in a pamphlet issued by the Navy
Department for the information of Civilian Defense Personnel. This
Bomber has an endurance of 10 hours, carries four .30 caliber machine
guns and a bomb load of 3,300 pounds.
Credit: ACME |
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12-16-41 |
77.09.2930 |
SINGAPORE
CITIZENS READY FOR JAP BOMBERS
SINGAPORE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS—A make shift evacuee village, one of
several built inland near Singapore, to receive coastal citizens, when
and if the Singapore Island is bombed by Japanese planes. Due to the
fact that Nipponese troops have landed North of the island, in Malaya,
this attack may come at any minute. Although these shelters are built
of Bamboo and matting fibre, and are tinder to incendiary bombs, they
are spaced far apart, so that if one is ignited, the others my be
saved.
Credit: ACME. |
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12-27-41 |
77.09.1197 |
FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30TH, 1941
NEW YORK BUREAU
ATLANTIC HORROR STORY (4)
A war-time horror story comes from mid-Atlantic, where according to
British reports a British rescue ship, her sick bays jammed with
injured survivors of merchant vessels sunk by U-boats while traveling
in one convoy , was bombed by a German plane, set afire, and lost.
When uninjured or not badly injured men tried to carry their seared or
shattered companions across the red-hot decks to the lifeboats, the
British report continues, the German plane machine-gunned them and
sank their boats under them. Those who were able to escape were saved
by a British warship which had raced to the aid of the stricken rescue
vehicle. The account says tersely that the attacking plane was torn to
bits by gun-fire. There were no survivors. Here two rafts of men who
escaped from the blazing ship wait for their rescuers to pick them up.
(Passed by British censor).
Credit: ACME |
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12-29-41 |
77.09.605 |
New York Bureau
Air Raiders will find New York City Prepared
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Should any enemy aircraft attack New York City, they
will find it prepared. Photo above shows anti-aircraft gun crew around
stove in a city park, where they are on 24-hour watch. Note signalman
at field telephone, which is connected with headquarters and over
which any air raid alarm would be sent. Because of Army censorship
background and all identifying marks have been blacked out so that
location of this emplacement will not be revealed.
Credit: (ACME) |
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12-29-41 |
77.09.623 |
New York Bureau
Anti-Aircraft Guns Ready to Protect New York
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Aircraft defenses have been set up in New York City
and anti-aircraft crews are on 24-hour watch for enemy air raiders.
Photo above shows anti-aircraft gun emplacement on roof of skyscraper,
with crew on practice “alert” pointing it at an imaginary enemy plane.
Because of Army censorship background and identifying marks have been
blacked out so that location of this emplacement will not be revealed.
Credit: (ACME) |
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12-31-41 |
77.09.1749 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
EVACUATING WOUNDED FROM NORSE BASE RAZED BY BRITISH
VAAGSOE, NORWAY—British commandos, in a surprise down landing, Dec.
27, on the small German-occupied port of Vaagsoe, killed, wounded or
took prisoner almost the entire garrison of upward 200 men, ‘blitzed’
all the industrial plants, dynamited and spiked all the coastal guns
that protect this important assembly place for Norwegian coastal
convoys. Shown in this radiophoto just received from London is the
evacuation of British wounded to invasion barge during raid.
Credit: Acme Radiophoto |
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12/31/41 |
77.09.3814 |
San Francisco Bureau
Uncle Sam Brings Home His Wounded From Pearl Harbor
San Francisco—Careful comrades carry the wounded form of a United
States seaman hit by Japanese schrapnel or bullets in the attack on
Pearl Harbor December 7, to a carrier for transportation to a hospital
in San Francisco. This is one of the first pictures permitted as the
second contingent of wounded reached San Francisco.(Passed by censor)
Credit: ACME. |
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12-31-41 |
77.09.3845 |
War Wounded Are Brought Home—Pearl Harbor Victims
San Francisco—Here is the first picture of the war-wounded in San
Francisco—U.S. seamen victims of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7. Above, they await transfer to a hospital after their arrival.
Passed by Navy censor.
Credit: ACME. |
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12-31-41 |
77.09.3897 |
Washington Bureau
Honolulu’s Utilities Heavily Guarded
Honolulu, Hawaii – Sand bags, barbed wire and Hawaiian territorial
guards around Hawaii’s vital waterfront power plant form an effective
defense against the possibility of sabotage or direct attack by
parachute troops. Photo by Allan Campbell, ACME staff photographer.
Credit: ACME |
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1-2-42 |
77.09.2585 |
New York Bureau
Indian Troops Arrive in Singapore
Singapore – Indian troops march to their billets after arriving in
Singapore, December 21. They are mostly Punjabs and Southern Indians.
In the photo, they have just been dismissed after an inspection upon
arrival in the city. (Passed by British censor.)
Credit: ACME |
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01-02-42 |
77.09.3452 |
New York Bureau
Axis Prisoners of British Reach Cairo
Cairo, Egypt – A column of prisoners, captured in Libya during the
current British offensive, as they neared the massive walls of the
Citadel of Cairo, built by Saladin, showing the landmark of the
Mohamed Al Mosque above, and the Mosque of Sultan Hassan (right).
Note crowd of curious natives at left. They are being escorted by
Egyptian mounted police (white horses).
Credit line (ACME) |
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01-03-42 |
77.09.3294 |
Washington Bureau
U.S. forces on way to bolster Pacific defenses
somewhere-in-the-Pacific---taking advantage of the balmy Pacific
weather, soldiers, sailors and civilian technicians on their way to
support U.S. armed forces in the Pacific relax in deck chairs on their
transport ship.
Credit line (ACME photo by staff cameraman Jonathan Rice) |
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1-3-42 |
77.09.3654 |
New York Bureau
“Anybody Got a Sponge?”
Russo-German Front—This may give you some idea of the difficulties
besetting the Germans on their round-trip into Russia. This officer
and his driver had to get out and walk when their reconnaissance car
bogged down in the famed Russian mud. They should have stayed home.
Passed by German censor.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-3-42 |
77.09.4079a |
New York Bureau
Daylight Raid on Brest
Brest - Here
is an air view of the recent daylight bombing of Brest. Two 4-motored
Halifax Bombers of the RAF Bomber Command can be seen pressing home
their attack on the German Pocket Battleships Sharnhorst and Gneisenau,
which were in drydock (at left). The Germans sent up a smoke screen in
an effort to obscure the target. It wasn’t very effective. Passed by
British Censor
Credit: ACME |
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1-6-42 |
77.09.3791 |
Chicago Bureau
Illegible photo title
Chicago—University of Chicago lettermen welcome some of the 500 coast
guardsmen to their campus dormitory, Burton Court, where the seamen
will live until their base training period at the nearby U.S. Coast
Guard station is completed. The Coast Guard, now an active fighting
unit of the U.S. Navy, is training men for coast defense as well as
rescue work.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-30-42 |
77.09.1019 |
RADIOPHOTO
CHICAGO BUREAU
BUILDING ENGINES FOR WAR PLANES
MELROSE PARK, ILL.—Aircraft engine production at the Buick
Aviation Engine Plant at Melrose Park, ILL., has exceeded its proposed
schedules and is gaining acceleration everyday in out-put volume. With
several thousand employees at work on assembly lines turning out
engines for American bombers and fighter planes, the plant is expected
to build most of the aircraft motors for the arms program. This photo,
approved by the War Department, is one of the first to be taken inside
the plant showing actual production. PHOTO SHOWS: Engine for a bombing
plane, fresh from the assembly line, being tuned by mechanics before
final test run.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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02-02-42 |
77.09.3492.a |
New York Bureau
Oft-Repeated Scene in Desert
Bardia, Libya – Overtaken by mechanized South African troops in the
Western Desert, German and Italian defenders of Bardia are herded
together for transportation to a prison camp. It was the second time
the Allies had captured the Libyan city, having been driven out after
their first desert offensive.
Credit line (ACME) |
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02-05-42 |
77.09.3261 |
New York Bureau
Singapore’s Big Guns Thunder
Singapore – This huge gun is typical of those which ring Singapore
island strategically and which are endlessly bombarding enemy
transport columns and concentrations on the Malay mainland, as British
forces make a last stand on the besieged island. These guns today
blasted into silence Japanese field guns which, in new emplacements
had peppered the North shore.
Credit line (ACME) |
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2-6-42 |
77.09.2020 |
(caption is torn; lower left corner missing)
New York Bureau
Sunk by Sub Off Jersey Coast
ATLANTIC CITY – The 8327-ton American tanker, India Arrow, which was
torpedoed and sunk by a submarine Wednesday night off the New Jersey
coast, with twenty-six members of the crew missing. Twelve survivors,
including the captain, reached shore today. The India Arrow was the 18th
ship attacked and the 17th ….the U-boat campaign off the …. |
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02-06-42 |
77.09.3240 |
New York Bureau
Security Registration in Singapore
Singapore – For a long time the people of Singapore have recognized
the Jap threat to that great naval base. Here, weeks before the start
of the siege of Singapore, residents of the city’s Chinese quarter are
shown crowding into a building for security registration. A Chinese
hawker peddles Malayan fruits in the street.
Credit line (ACME) |
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2-7-42 |
77.09.929 |
New York Bureau
It’s _______ Miles to ________.
One thing you can’t show in a photograph is the location of U.S.
troops. That’s why these signposts are covered as a soldier stands
sentry somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. As you can see from the
signs, it’s several miles to some place or other. Anyway, it’s rainy
there. Or was when the picture was taken.
Credit: ACME. |
