Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 45
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Image # |
Caption |
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11-9-42 |
77.09.3550 |
New York Bureau
Americans Get Taste of Egyptian Sandstorm
On the Egyptian Front—An American war correspondent, Weston Haynes
(right), stands behind a peep-load of American Air Forces fighting
men, as the group begins to feel the full fury of a desert sandstorm.
A mask, pad of cloth and goggles are used to keep stinging sand out of
nose, eyes and throat. (Passed by censors).
Credit: ACME. |
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11-9-42 |
77.09.3844 |
Remember Our Buddies
Fort Knox, KY—In the nation’s nerve-center of tank training at Fort
Knox, dozens of World War I veterans will pause for a few minutes at
11 o’clock on Armistice Day to pay respects to buddies who gave their
lives in the first Great War. Among these soldiers who enlisted for a
“second crack at Jerry” are (left to right): Pvt. Joseph E. Peterson,
San Antonio, Texas; Pvt. Robert C. Browning, McDermett, Nev., and Pvt.
Preston J. Welter, Sr., Marysville, Calif., who was twice wounded
during his 15 months at the front in ’18. And they didn’t relish the
idea of being called recruits.
Credit: ACME. |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.2145
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Belgians Pay Homage to British Airmen
BLAINE-LE COMTE, BELGIUM – German soldiers and guards could not
prevent spontaneous demonstrations of Belgian citizens who buried RAF
fighters who were shot down while raiding a Nazi-utilized Belgian
railway producing center. Crowds of Belgians pass before the coffins
to pay homage. Eleven German soldiers were killed and 24 others were
wounded when the plane wreckage ignited a school used as Nazi military
headquarters. Seven RAF fliers were buried by patriotic Belgians.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.2146
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New York Bureau
Breuil Steelworks Damaged in Krupps Raid
LE CREUSOT – The Breuil steelworks, one of three main sections of the
steel-plants at Le Creusot, was blasted by the RAF on October 17. This
reconnaissance photo shows the most severe damage to be: 1. Probably
direct hit at the south end of steelworks, causing partial collapse of
framework; 2. Severe blast damage to a shed adjoining the works; 3.
Half a warehouse destroyed by a direct hit; 4. Severe blast damage to
another warehouse.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.2176 |
New York Bureau
Breuil Steelworks Damaged in Krupps Raid
LE CREUSOT – Heavy damage was done to the steelworks at Le Creusot on
October 17 when the three main sections of the valuable “Krupps: plant
were blasted by 94 RAF Lancaster bombers. This reconnaissance photo
shows the damaged sections of the Breuil steelworks – one of the three
steelwork branches. A direct hit destroyed half a warehouse, another
leveled the south end of the steelworks, while a severe blast damaged
an adjoining shed and another warehouse.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.3322 |
New York Bureau
Wasp Crew Taking Refuge
This official U.S. Navy photo shows only a few members of the crew
that remain on board on the forward flight deck. They take refuge
from the sweeping flames. The 14,700-ton carrier was on escort duty
near the Solomon Islands at the time she was attacked and sunk.
Credit line (off. Navy photo from ACME) |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.3324 |
New York Bureau
Transfer At Sea
Somewhere in the Pacific – Securely strapped in a metal basket, Sgt.
R.P. Anderson, U.S. Army Airman, is transferred from a U.S. destroyer,
(background), to an aircraft carrier for hospital treatment.
Anderson, member of a flying fortress crew, and six companions were
rescued by the destroyer after spending seven days on a raft in the
Pacific, following a crash landing.
Credit line (U.S. Navy official photo) |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.3556 |
New York Bureau
Axis Bathers Surprised by RAF
Libya—Axis troops bathing and washing their clothes at Gazala, on the
western shore of the bay of Bomba, were surprised by four long-range
fighters of the R.A.F. who shot up a nearby parade of enemy troops,
killing approximately fifty. The same British fighters successfully
attacked five enemy aircraft and four other Cant 506’s at the Libyan
seaplane base in Bomba Bay, near Derna.
Credit: ACME. |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.3779.a |
New York Bureau
Missing Pilots Honored
Nine members of the U.S. Navy Torpedo Squadron shown here and who are
now listed as missing, have been awarded the Navy Cross by the
Secretary of the Navy for their extraordinary heroism in the action
against Japanese forces in the Battle of Midway, according to
announcement in Washington. Nov. 10th photo was taken in
May, 1942. The nine honored in this group are: (standing) Ensign
Randolph Mitchell Holder, (far left) ; USNR, from Jackson, Miss;
Ensign Wiley Brock, (second from left), USN, of Montgomery, Ala; Lt.
Paul James Riley (fourth from left), USN, Hot Springs, Ark; Lt. Comdr.
Eugene Elbert Lindsey, (fifth from left), USN, Coronado, Calif; Lt.
Arthur Vincent Ely (sixth from left), USN, Pittsburgh, PA; and Ensign
Louis Rombach, (seventh from left). Front row: Lt. (Jg) Lloyd Thomas
Eversole, (seventh from left), USN, Pocatello, Idaho.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from ACME. |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.3825 |
New York Bureau
He Mowed Them Down!
San Diego, Calif.—Pvt.
Albert A. Schmidt (in bed), USMC, from Philadelphia, Pa., was credited
by comrades for killing more than 200 Japs with a scorching hot
machine gun before an enemy grenade blinded him in the battle of
Tenaru River on Guadalcanal Island. Here, Schmidt is shown talking at
a San Diego Naval Hospital to Corp. Leroy Diamond (right foreground),
of New York City, who fed the machine gun until he was wounded. Pvt.
George McNally (rear right), of Evansville, Ind., whose arm is
bandaged, and another unidentified Marine, listen to the conversation.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME. |
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11-10-42 |
77.09.4414a |
New York Bureau
Armada of “Lancasters”
This unusual photo shows an armada of huge RAF “Lancaster”
four-motored bombers as they roared over the village of Mon Richard in
France, on their way to blast the Schneider Works at Le Creusot, last
October 17. Each of the ships carried almost nine tons of bombs and
flew at less than 300 feet to cause tremendous damage to the motor
works, which was building equipment for Nazi tanks and planes. Passed
by censors.
Credit: ACME |
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11-11-42 |
77.09.3290 |
Guadalcanal: - A spiral of smoke trails a Jap bomber to the ground
over Guadalcanal in the Solomon islands, after a raid which resulted
in disaster for the attackers. Lt. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, Marine Corps
commandant who returned from an inspection trip of the Pacific
battleground, announced American forces defending Guadalcanal
outnumber the enemy on the island.
Credit line (ACME) |
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11-12-42 |
77.09.265 |
New York Bureau
All the Comforts of Home
NEW GUINEA -- Americans love their comfort, and wherever they go
they're bound to make themselves as comfortable as possible. Corp.
Verl Parmee, a member of U.S. Infantry troops in New Guinea, relaxes
and reads a letter from home on his unique bed, which he fashioned
with bamboo poles.
Credit: (ACME) |
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11-12-42 |
77.09.1132 |
U.S. ARMY NURSES ARRIVE IN NEW GUINEA
NEW GUINEA – Eighteen U.S. Army nurses, the first white women to set
foot in New Guinea since March 1942, arrive at an Allied advance base
in the South Pacific stronghold. No other American nurses have been
sent to the unnamed base, close to the fighting areas.
Credit: ACME |
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11-12-42 |
77.09.3259 |
New York Bureau
Cutting a Jeep Road
New Guinea – Getting supplies to troops in the Owen Stanley mountain
range in New Guinea is one of the major problems of U.S. Troops in
that area. Long before the arrival of Army engineers, regular
infantry troops built their own roads with ax and shovel. Here a
troop cuts a jeep road through the jungle.
Credit line (ACME) |
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11-12-42 |
77.09.4539a |
New York Bureau
Somewhere in the Atlantic – Rescued members of the crew of a torpedoed
freighter pull their lifeboat toward the United Nations vessel that
picked them up. Their freighter remained afloat, menacing other ships,
until it was sent to the bottom by depth charges from the rescue ship.
Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME |
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11-12-42 |
77.09.4540a |
New York Bureau
“Mercy Shot”
Somewhere in the Atlantic – A milky spray of sea water roars aloft as
a depth charge from a United Nations vessel explodes against the hull
of a freighter that had been torpedoed in the Atlantic. The ruined
vessel was afloat and a menace to shipping, so the United Nations ship
rescued its crew and sank the freighter. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME |
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11-13-42 |
77.09.243 |
New York Bureau
One Man City-Buster
ORAN -- A one-man terror, Corp. Bernard J. Kessel, who manned the 75
on the American medium tank that conducted its own successful
offensive on Oran, said, "I guess that picture of the girl friend
(Rita Weinberg), mounted next to my 75 is a lucky charm." Separated
from their unit, the tank penetrated the city all alone, ramming and
destroying three 75 mm. guns and 50 motor vehicles and emerging with
its armor plate marked up by decked with the French guns.
Credit: (ACME) |
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11-13-42 |
77.09.3181 |
New York Bureau
Billet Doux?
New Guinea – U.S. soldiers crowd close to a jungle hut where
kinky-haired native belles line up on the front porch to inspect their
khaki-clad visitors, in New Guinea.
Credit line (ACME) |
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11-13-42 |
77.09.3235 |
American Pilots Buried in Australia
Townsville, Australia – The stars and stripes wave above the American
section of the military cemetery at Townsville, Australia, a soldier
colony. The graves are mostly of U.S. airmen, killed in action, and
are cared for by Australian soldiers, three of whom are shown.
Credit line (ACME) |
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11-19-42 |
77.09.3255 |
Japs in China Have Transportation Troubles
Lacking adequate transportation facilities to get their men, guns,
ammunition and supplies to fighting areas, the Japs in China have
commandeered everything from horse-drawn carts to wheelbarrows for
transportation purposes. This photo, obtained from an unraveled
source, is an aerial view of a Japanese troop movement.
Credit line (U.S. Signal Corps photo from ACME) |
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11-25-42 |
77.09.1139 |
ON HER SIDE
MOROCCO – A capsized merchantman careens against the quay in
Casablanca harbor after defenders of the seaport were defeated by
American forces. Latest dispatches from the North American front
indicate progress in the British drive on Bizerte and Tunis.
Credit: ACME |
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11-26-42 |
77.09.1146 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
DESTINED FOR AFRICA
Steaming in perfect formation, a huge United Nations convoy plows
through the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Africa, where troops were landed
in French possessions the first part of November. The convoy was well
escorted by sea and air, as shown by this aerial photo of the
remarkable sea expedition, which reached all ports virtually
unscathed.
Credit: ACME official U.S. Navy photo |
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11-28-42 |
77.09.3607 |
New York Bureau
Price Paid
Oran, Algeria—With only their masts and funnels showing over the
waters of Oran Harbor, these two sunken French ships are part of the
price paid by the French when they attempted to bottleneck Oran Harbor
before the fall of North Africa to the A.E.F. Six ships were scuttled
here and fourteen more were destroyed further inside the harbor. Photo
was radioed from London today. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME. |
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11-30-42 |
77.09.2447 |
New York Bureau
JAP BOMBERS IN ACTION
The camera caught these two Jap bombers as they passed over a U.S.
carrier in the first phase of a triple bombing and torpedo attack on
the carrier off Santa Cruz Islands in the South Pacific on Oct. 26th.
Some 80 enemy planes attacked the carrier on that morning.
Credit (Official US Navy Photo from ACME) |
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