Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
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Gallery 5

Date	Image #	Caption
No date	77.09.1800	RADIOTELEPHOTO NEW YORK BUREAU WOUNDED PRISONER GIVEN TREATMENT CISTERNO AREA, ITALY—Wounded in both legs and the face, this German prisoner is assisted to a jeep by a US Medical Corpsman for transportation to a first aid station. The Nazi was captured by Yank forces when they took Cisterno. Allied armies are now within sight of Rome and are pounding at German defenses in the Alban Hills.
No date	77.09.1803.a	MARSHALLING YARDS AT TOURS (most of caption is missing) MARSHALLING YARDS AT TOURS …Aircraft of R.A.F. Bomber…St. Pierre de…yards at To…, the night of april 10/11,…heavy…area. This British Official…which have been heavily…of the picture has received three…the bottom of the photograph has
No date	77.09.1847.a	SAFETY POSTS FOR ITALIAN ROADS Pvt. Omero Del Papa of Galveston, Texas, drives a safety post into the edge of an Italian road, next to an overturned German tank.
No date	77.09.1888	New York Bureau Grim Evidence EBOLI, ITALY – Here is grim evidence of the accuracy of American bombardiers. This wrecked building in Eboli was one of many destroyed when our airmen raided the important mountain town. Photo, made by Acme photographer Charles Corte, was flashed to the U.S. by Radiotelephoto. Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME)
No date	77.09.1998	Set on fire by German bombers, building blazes in Namur, Belgium, towards which Nazi forces were driving today. (Cablephoto London)
No date	77.09.2001	New York Bureau One Truckload Coming Up ANZIO, ITALY – Carefree and unconcerned with their plight, these German prisoners grin as they are removed by truck from the forward stockade on the Anzio beachhead to permanent encampments behind the front lines. The deluded Nazi warriors still believe that the war will result in a victory for Germany, even after they’ve had a taste of Yankee battle medicine. Credit (ACME) (WP)
No date	77.09.2014.a	Dispatches from the Front ITALY – And here the front is uncomfortably close for this photo shows the news section of the newly inaugurated Anzio paper, called the Beach Head News, which is written for and by front line troops. It has four pages printed on a linotype machine, portable and miniature, of course. Looking over dispatches are Gunner Hargrave Andrew, London, England; Corp. Roger Flaherty, Norwood, Mass.; and Sgt. Frederick Bell, Pecos, Texas.
No date	77.09.2017	(caption is ripped; lower right corner missing. Faded and unclear) New York Bureau … to an Invasion Ship ..CILY – A giant column of smoke ma… …United Nations ship engaged … …Sicily. Other Allied vessels… …fiery cloud caused… …bomb.
…18, 1940	77.09.2022	(caption is torn, wrinkled; faded and mostly illegible) …field according to German… …Nazi machines are ready for …commander is seen …with their objectives …propellers are turned …for the enemy.”
No date	77.09.2040	Destruction of Louvain, Belgium, following German air raid. Cablephoto today from London.
?/15/44	77.09.2057	Radiophoto New York Bureau U.S. Bombers Slug Port of Athens ATHENS, GREECE – Smoke shrouds the already battered dock area of Athens as U.S. Flying Fortresses bomb the vital Nazi supply center, on January 11^th. Bomb-bursts dot the harbor waters as the B-17’s of the 15^th United States Army Air Force wing over their target. Credit (U.S. Army Air Force Photo Via OWI Radiophoto from ACME)
No date	77.09.2061	New York Bureau What Our Bombers Have Wrought HAMBURG, GERMANY – Furiously pounding Hitler’s Festung Europa from the air, by night and by day, Allied bombers have sent tons and tons of bomb debris showering into the streets of enemy industrial and shipping centers. The wreckage is piled high on either side of this cleared path in a Hamburg street. The extensive damage was probably done during RAF and USAAF raids on the important German port during July and August, 1943.
No date	77.09.2083	Pool-Radiotelephoto Near Nettuno, Italy. German bombing of American evacuation hospital. Red Cross flag sprawled out just behind bomb crater on hospital grounds was torn by anti-personnel bomb dropped by Germans. Over 100 casualties. L-R Nurse Lt. Sally Hocutt Wendell, N.C.; and Pvt. Marshall Floyd of Marshville, N.C.
No date	77.09.2109	Lt Gen Mark W. Clark, Commander of the 5^th Army in Italy, inspects area of French Mountain Division of 5^th Army in rugged terrain across Garigliano River. Photo by Sherman Montrose, Acme photographer for the War Picture Pool.
No date	77.09.2133	New York Bureau Noses Toward Italy Sicily – Two amphibious jeeps take off from Sicily and churn their way toward Italy and the long-awaited invasion of the European continent. With such a short distance to travel across the Messina Straits, the land-sea vehicles could travel under their own power before landing in Italy to batter their way inland. (Photo radioed from Algiers to N.Y.)
No date	77.09.2134	Radio photo just received from Algiers via London shows British troops driving their amphibious ducks thru Reggio Calabria, Italy.
No date	77.09.2135	Although the invasion of Axis territory is preceding successfully, it is not being carried out without casualties. Above, in the first pictures released of American dead on foreign battlefields, American paratroopers lie dead in Sicily, shot down by gunfire during first days of Sicilian campaign. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo
No date	77.09.2175	German civilians loot German freight cars cut off in Hanau, Germany by the 4^th Armored Division. Signal Corps Radio Telephoto from Acme
No date	77.09.2177	New York Bureau Dark Clouds Hang Over Romania ROMANIA – Riding above this towering column of smoke is a B-24 Liberator of the U.S. Army 15^th Air Force after its bombs started fires in the Astro Romono oil refinery at Ploesti, Romania. This latest attack by heavy bombers was one of the many smashing blows on the rapidly dwindling Nazi oil supplies. (Acme)
No date	77.09.2186	French civilians returning to Pont L’abbe after the Allied pushed the Germans from the town, pass dead Germans and samashed German Equipment. Acme via Signal Corps radio telephoto.
No date	77.09.2193	New York Bureau One More Downed WASHINGTON, D.C. – A German dive bomber plummets into Anzio Harbor leaving a trail of smoke, after being hit by ack-ack. The plane fell among the Allied ships lying at anchor in the harbor. Credit (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt for War Picture Pool via Army Radiotelephoto)
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Through the Camera's Eye: The Allison Collection of World War II Photographs (continued)

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