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1-14-43 |
77.09.3734a |
New York Bureau
Dress Rehearsal
Somewhere in South England—This realistic dress rehearsal for their
next big offensive against the enemy is carried out by Canadians
stationed in England. Negotiating minefields, with mines exploding,
Canadian tanks go through their grueling maneuvers with an aerial
escort of mustang fighters constantly on the lookout for air attacks
by the enemy. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME. |
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01-15-43 |
77.09.3346 |
Coast Guardsman James Pox, Uniontown, Pa., waves his fingers through
the shell hole ripped by Japanese fire just a few minutes after he
left the bunk, the blanket covered. The action occurred in the
Solomons. Fox, one of the coast guardsmen who landed the Marines in
the original invasion of Guadalcanal, salvaged the blanket from the
routed Japs’ effects. Back home on leave, he still has the souvenir
of his narrow escape and the Americans still have the island.
Credit line (ACME) |
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01-16-43 |
77.09.3336 |
New York Bureau
Bench and Sales Talk
Guadalcanal – These three Leathernecks were convinced by the sales
talk tacked above the bench on Guadalcanal. One writes a letter home,
another just smokes, and the third whittles – in a pain of
comfortable air-conditioned shoes. They’re all enjoying a brief
moment of relaxation in the tough tropical fighting zone.
Credit line (US Marines Corps) |
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01-16-43 |
77.09.3337 |
New York Bureau
Safari on Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal – A Marine raider battalion – a specially trained group –
marches over the rugged terrain of Guadalcanal. They found the
natives eager to help carry supplies and equipment. One of the
natives is serving as a guide.
Credit (US Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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01-16-43 |
77.09.3338 |
New York Bureau
Pardon His Abbreviated Sarong
Guadalcanal – Taking advantage of a lull on Guadalcanal, this U.S.
Marine went in for a bit of native style fishing. He donned native
dress and tried his luck at bagging tropical fish with a spear.
Credit (US Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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01-16-43 |
77.09.3339 |
New York Bureau
Guadalcanal “Cliff-Dwellers”
Guadalcanal, S.I. – Modern “cliff-dwellers”, these members of a U.S.
Marine Corps mortar crew are living in a group of caves in a gulch on
Guadalcanal. The entrances to the caves, which the boys built
themselves, can be seen at upper right of photo. An armed sentry can
also be seen on duty (upper right) at the top of the gulch as the boys
go about their chores.
Credit line (Official Marine Corps photo – ACME) |
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01-16-43 |
77.09.3341 |
New York Bureau
Japs Make Direct Hit
Guadalcanal, S.I. – Clouds of white smoke pour from a hangar at
Henderson field on Guadalcanal during a Jap raid, marking the spot
where enemy bombs found their target. It was a direct hit. The two
planes shown in photo apparently escaped the attack.
Credit line (Official Marine Corps photo – ACME) |
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1-16-43 |
77.09.3732a |
New York Bureau
Casualties on Russian-Bound Convoy
Somewhere in the North Atlantic—Taken by a U.S. Naval officer from the
deck of his ship, these photos show, top: a United States merchant
ship at the moment it was struck by an enemy aerial torpedo; and
bottom: smoke billowing from an Allied ship after an enemy plane, hit
by anti-aircraft fire, crashed into it. The vessel at the right is
truning to avoid the explosions from the victim ship.
Credit: Official Navy photos from ACME. |
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1-17-43 |
77.09.939.a |
“Cowpens” Goes Down the Ways
Camden, N.J.—The U.S.S. Cowpens, an aircraft carrier named in memory
of a Revolutionary War battle fought at Cowpens, S.C., goes down the
ways at the New York Shipbuilding Corps Yards in Camden. Launched on
Jan. 17, the Cowpens is the fourth carrier to be launched by the
corporation in 20 weeks. Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance, daughter of
Admiral William F. Halsey, sponsored the vessel.
Credit: ACME. |
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01-17-43 |
77.09.2912 |
Nazi Ship Burns and Sinks
Bay of Biscay – A German blockade runner slowly sinks in the waters of
the Bay of Biscay, leaving a trail of black smoke from her burning
deck behind her, after being shelled by the H.M.S. Scylla. Heavily
laden with raw materials for Germany, the blockade runner was first
sighted by a Wellington of the R.A.F. Coastal command, which attacked,
unsuccessfully, in bad weather. A Sunderland was then sent to guide
the Scylla to the Nazi vessel, and the British ship sent her to the
bottom as she neared the last lap of her journey.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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1-17-43 |
77.09.3629 |
New York Bureau
Dead Nazis in Stalingrad
Stalingrad, U.S.S.R.—Strewn on the battlefield southwest of
Stalingrad, these dead Nazis once manned part of the enemy’s heavily
fortified lines. They were left here by their comrades after the Red
Army broke through their lines. Latest reports from the Russian front
indicate that the Red Army has captured the important German base and
railroad junction of Millerovo, 125 miles north of Rostov, almost
annihilating a Nazi garrison. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-18-43 |
77.09.3627 |
New York Bureau
Home-coming Near Stalingrad
Russia—The sufferings of war written on their faces, survivors of
families occupying a collective farm to the northwest of Stalingrad
tell of their experiences after their village had been recaptured by
Russian advance troops.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-18-43 |
77.09.3628.a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Reds Rout Nazis South of Stalingrad
Stalingrad—Under heavy fire, Red guardsmen dislodge the enemy from
Formossin, south of Stalingrad. During the night, one Russian unit
slew 1,000 Nazis in the Stalingrad area, capturing 850 others while in
the last 48 hours 3,000 enemy soldiers are reported either killed or
captured in the same territory.
Credit: ACME. |
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01-19-43 |
77.09.3335 |
New York Bureau
Artillery in Action on Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal: - 155 mm howitzers pour shells on enemy lines from
advanced positions in Guadalcanal, where U.S. Marines are leading the
attack on Jap forces. Latest reports state U.S. ground forces on the
island continue to mop up pockets of enemy resistance. This photo is
from a Marine Corps’ newsreel.
Credit (U.S. Marine Corps newsreel photo – ACME) |
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1-19-43 |
77.09.3568 |
African Foodstuffs in Middle East
Caption illegible.
Credit: ACME |
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1-19-43 |
77.09.3569 |
New York Bureau
Flour “Mountain” from Australia
Natives, including many women, pile bags of flour mountain-high at a
port “somewhere in the Middle East.” Flour, which came from Australia,
will help to feed hungry United Nations fighters. (Passed by censors).
Credit: ACME. |
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1-19-43 |
77.09.3834 |
This American Baldwin locomotive, built specially for use in foreign
lands, is loaded aboard ship. The engine had reached the port on
another vessel and is being transshipped to another port. This photo
has just been received in New York.
Passed by censors.
Credit: ACME. |
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01-21-43 |
77.09.3354 |
Dockside “Cracker Barrel” Session
A Pacific Base – Hungry for news, U.S. sailors line the deck of their
weather-scarred submarine (left), after returning to their Pacific
base, after long, arduous patrol against the enemy. Other sailors on
the dock willingly “dish the dirt” for their buddies, who have
returned for rest, recreation, and, best of all, sunlight.
Credit line (U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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1-22-43 |
77.09.354 |
New York Bureau
Aid Wounded After London Raid
LONDON -- A London bobby, air raid wardens and rescue workers give aid
to the wounded who are laid out on the snow-covered ground after the
recent Nazi air raid of London. Note that one of the wardens is
tearing a piece of white cloth to use as a bandage for the victims.
Credit: (ACME Radiophoto) |
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01-23-43 |
77.09.3355 |
Washington Bureau – ACME Newspictures
American Submarines Attack Jap Shipping
This picture made by an alert Navy cameraman from the periscope of the
attacking American submarine. In a rising crescendo of death and
destruction, three torpedoes crash into this unsuspecting Japanese
merchantman, of more than 9,000 gross tons. Lying in an unidentified
Pacific harbor. Heavy smoke rolls up from the stricken vessel has
already concealed all but the camouflaged bow from the photographer in
the submarine, who took the picture thru the periscope.
Credit line (U S Navy official photo from ACME) |
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01-23-43 |
77.09.3359 |
Sails and a Submarine
Only the horizontal and vertical lines disclose that this remarkably
clear picture of an unidentified schooner, in enemy Pacific waters,
was made throught the periscope of a U.S. submarine. In these days of
steam, such pictures of schooners under full sail are rare. The
Japanese use many sailing vessels, formerly employed in hauling copra
and inter-island supplies, as patrol ships.
Credit (official US Navy photo from ACME) |
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01-23-43 |
77.09.3361 |
Washington Bureau – ACME Newspictures
American submarines attack Japanese shipping attrition in Pacific
waters. Blasted by U.S. torpedoes, a Japanese ship makes her death
plunge in a choppy sea. A photographer aboard the attacking submarine
snapped this graphic picture through the periscope just as the stern
of the stricken ship lifted up from the surface to silhouette against
the sky.
Credit line (US Navy official photo from ACME) |
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01-23-43 |
77.09.3362 |
Washington Bureau – ACME Newspictures
American Submarines Attack Jap Shipping
An unsuspecting Japanese merchantman of more than 9,000 gross tons
lies in an unidentified Pacific harbor unaware of the U.S. submarine
from which this daring picture was snapped. Note the small boat
pulling away from the camouflaged vessel. Shortly after this picture
was made American torpedoes found their mark on this vessel which was
close to shore.
Credit line (US Navy official photo from ACME) |
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1-23-43 |
77.09.3567 |
Supplies for the British
Tripolitania—A transport plane flies low over a desert road, passing a
motor transport convoy as it flies with fuel supplies to RAF landing
grounds in Tripolitania. Latest reports from Tripoli indicate that the
city has fallen to the British 8th Army. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME |
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1-25-43 |
77.09.1164 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
TIME OUT FROM SNIPING
TIMOR ISLAND – Australian guerillas rest in their jungle hideout on
the Jap-held island of Timor. These Aussie snipers live virtually in
the midst of the enemy and are as annoying to the Nips as a deluge of
red ants. (Passed by censors.)
Credit: ACME |
