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

Date      

Image #

Caption

2-16-43

77.09.3111

Jap Blasted in Dugout
Guadalcanal – A U.S. soldier inspects a blown-up enemy dugout which contains a beheaded Jap (upper right), scattered equipment, and many cocoanut husks which indicate that the Japanese were hard-pressed for food during their last stand on Guadalcanal. The weakened condition of the enemy troops taken prisoner on the island indicate that hunger, as well as American bullets, broke their resistance.
Credit: ACME

02-16-43

77.09.3182

Lost in Solomons Area
The heavy cruiser Chicago was lost in a week-long series of air and naval engagements in the Solomons area, according to a Navy announcement.  A U.S. destroyer, 22 American planes and three U.S. motor torpedo boats were also lost during the actions resulting from Jap attempts to evacuate men from Guadalcanal and their efforts to interfere with American reinforcements.  The sea-air battles covered the period January 29 – February 4, Solomons time, inclusive.
Credit line (ACME)

02-16-43

77.09.3419

New York Bureau
Nazis Blast Allied Air Base
Souk El Arba – Allied soldiers rush valuable supplies from the scene of Nazi bomb hits at Souk El Arba, the air base captured by allied paratroops a few days before the attack.  An allied plane flames in the background.  As American interceptors engaged the raiders, munitions were removed from flaming areas, and wounded and shell-shocked soldiers and civilians received emergency treatment on the field of battle.  The bombs hit gas and oil supplies as well as munitions dumps at the airfield but the axis, too, lost fairly heavily.  The morning following the attack, unescorted DC-3 transports brought replacement supplies and munitions to carry on the Tunisian attack.
Credit (U.S. Army Signal Corps film - - ACME)

2-17-43

77.09.1859

NEW YORK BUREAU
SALVAGE BIN
MALTA—When you take a look at these empty gasoline tins, piled along the edges of Malta’s farms, it’s easy to see that it takes an awful lot of the precious liquid to keep British planes in the air. The empty cans come from nearby airfields and are kept here pending future salvage.
Credit: Acme

02-17-43

77.09.3416

Radio photo
New York Bureau
Leaving Their Tank
Tripolitania – Choosing the border between Tripolitania and Tunisia, truckloads of men of the highland division pass a signpost at the border that already bears the “HD” that identifies the highland division.  Latest reports received from Tunisia indicate that veteran German tank forces, renewing their powerful drive in South Tunisia, have smashed through to the outskirts of Sbeitla.
Credit line (ACME radio photo)

2-17-43

77.09.4313a

New York Bureau
Doin’ Fine
Somewhere in Britain - Convalescing in a West Country Hospital, British and American soldiers, accompanied by American nurses, take a stroll on the hospital grounds. All well on the way to recovery, the men were brought to Britain after being wounded on North African battlefields. Passed by Censors
Credit: ACME

02-18-43

77.09.3417.a

They Didn’t Think He’d Do It – But He Did!
Massaua, Eritrea – The British laughed when Captain Edward Ellsberg, famed submarine salvage expert, announced that he was going to raise the sunken drydock in Massaua harbor, scuttled by the Italians before the British took over.  “Impossible – You’ll never do it,”  they said.  “Wanna bet?” the Captain calmly asked.  The laughed again.  “Put up or shut up,”  the Captain said.  The British did “put u” – to the tune of $2,000.  Making a collection among Americans stationed at the harbor, Captain Ellsberg matched the sum and got to work.  Today the drydock stands, good as new, in the harbor of Massaua – A miracle of salvage.  Scuttled German and Italian ships, pulled up from the Red Sea, are rejuvenated there and pressed into United Nations service allied ships will also use the drydock as a repair station.  And the Americans who backed Captain Ellsberg doubled their stakes in the venture.  The following series shows American salvage chews operating in the harbor at Massaua.
New York Bureau
Scuttled by the Italians before they gave up the harbor, this ship is being placed in drydock after being raised from the sea by American salvage crews.
Credit line (ACME)

02-18-43

77.09.3418.a

Massaua, Eritrea - The British laughed when Captain Edward Ellsberg, famed submarine salvage expert, announced that he was going to raise the sunken drydock in Massaua harbor, scuttled by the Italians before the British took over.  “Impossible – You’ll never do it,”  they said.  “Wanna bet?” the Captain calmly asked.  The laughed again.  “Put up or shut up,”  the Captain said.  The British did “put u” – to the tune of $2,000.  Making a collection among Americans stationed at the harbor, Captain Ellsberg matched the sum and got to work.  Today the drydock stands, good as new, in the harbor of Massaua – A miracle of salvage.  Scuttled German and Italian ships, pulled up from the Red Sea, are rejuvenated there and pressed into United Nations service allied ships will also use the drydock as a repair station.  And the Americans who backed Captain Ellsberg doubled their stakes in the venture.  The following series shows American salvage chews operating in the harbor at Massaua.
New York Bureau
Jutting out into the water, those ventilators are a challenge to Captain Edward Ellsberg, who stands on the davit of the sunken axis ship that he’ll soon raise from the bottom.
Credit line (ACME)

02-18-43

77.09.3422.a

They Didn’t Think He’d Do It – But He Did!
Massaua, Eritrea – The British laughed when Captain Edward Ellsberg, famed submarine salvage expert, announced that he was going to raise the sunken drydock in Massaua harbor, scuttled by the Italians before the British took over.  “Impossible – You’ll never do it,”  they said.  “Wanna bet?” the Captain calmly asked.  The laughed again.  “Put up or shut up,”  the Captain said.  The British did “put u” – to the tune of $2,000.  Making a collection among Americans stationed at the harbor, Captain Ellsberg matched the sum and got to work.  Today the drydock stands, good as new, in the harbor of Massaua – A miracle of salvage.  Scuttled German and Italian ships, pulled up from the Red Sea, are rejuvenated there and pressed into United Nations service allied ships will also use the drydock as a repair station.  And the Americans who backed Captain Ellsberg doubled their stakes in the venture.  The following series shows American salvage chews operating in the harbor at Massaua.
New York Bureau
Robert Koegler (left) and “Ali”, a native boy, greet diver Ervin Johnson of Chicago as he comes up from his dangerous work removing unexploded demolition bombs from the sunken craft.
Credit line (ACME)

2-19-43

77.09.1163

NEW YORK BUREAU
HE DOESN’T FORGET, BUT –
SOMEWHERE IN INDIA – Three U.S. soldiers hail the appearance of the elephant who carries their bedding. (Left to right) Corp. Darrall McAfee, Sedan, Kansas; Pvt. Jimmie M. Bartlett, Silver City, New Mexico; and Pvt. Raymond H. Hohn, San Francisco, hunt for their blankets before making camp after a day’s hike in India. The elephant, who leaves after the soldiers start on the march, never forgets the bedding, but being partly wild, often takes roundabout shortcuts to turn in at a later hour. As a result, Nagas are now toting bedding instead of the irresponsible Jumbo.
Credit: Official U.S. Army photo – ACME

2-19-43

77.09.1167

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
R.A.F. BLASTS JAP LANDING FIELD
BURMA- Eighteen R.A.F. bombs burst across runways on a Jap occupied airfield at Pokokku, Burma. The British bombers are hammering the Nipponese and their military installations regularly in this battle area. Most of the bursts are on runway intersections; two are on aircraft shelters. The black patches are cloud shadows.
Credit: ACME

2-19-43

77.09.2388

NEW YORK BUREAU
NAGAS DO PORTER DUTY IN INDIA
SOMEWHERE IN INDIA—A typical Naga, the type of Indian native who is carries supplies for U.S. troops in India, all set and ready for the hike. The pack harness has a wooden yoke for his shoulders and the basket contains rice and other coolie rations. On top of the basket is a case of U.S. Army field rations “C” which weighs about 40 pounds. The little Nagas usually carry 60-pound loads.
Credit: Official U.S. Army photo from Acme

2-19-43

77.09.3088

New York Bureau
Wary Street Cleaner
Voronezh, Russia – A Russian Sapper proceeds cautiously along a street in Voronezh, hunting for Nazi mines buried beneath the snow in the industrial center recaptured by the Reds. Land mines represent a ticklish proposition for the sappers when there is a heavy snow. This one holds his detecting device far from his person.
Credit: ACME

2-19-43

77.09.3089

New York Bureau
Death Approaches Nazi Tanks
Central Front, Russia – Soviet Anti-Tank Guns, accompanying Tanks, move up on the Central Front to reinforce the rapidly advancing Red troops. Even the Russian Infantry is now using “tank tactics” as it virtually rolls over floundering Nazis.
Credit: ACME

2-20-43

77.09.897

Washington Bureau—ACME newspictures
Fatal Navy Plane Crash
Four enlisted men were killed and two others and a naval officer are missing following the crash of this PBM Wednesday, Feb. 17, in Willoughby Bay at Norfolk, VA. The plane lost altitude after a takeoff from the Norfolk Naval Air Station and fell into the water. Its nose lodged into mud and sand, trapping seven men  (Remaining portion of caption is illegible).
Credit: U.S. Navy official photo from ACME.

2-20-43

77.09.1041

RADIOPHOTO
CHICAGO BUREAU
FIRST LOAD OF OIL LEAVES FOR EAST
NORRIS CITY, ILL.: Ninety-six tank cars loaded with oil at the local terminal of new Texas-Illinois Pipeline, are shown made up into the first train to leave the terminal for the petroleum starved East Coast. Formal ceremonies were held at the opening of the service. The 24-inch pipe line will be extended from here to New York and Philadelphia in the near future, but the pipe-rail system will relieve present shortage in the East until the entire line is completed.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME

2-20-43

77.09.1043

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
SEEK SHELTER!
NEW YORK CITY – Stopping a trolley car at 42^nd Street and Fifth Ave., a policeman orders passengers to leave the car and seek shelter in nearby buildings as the “red” signal sounds. Photo was made during the third successive air raid alert under the new signal system in New York City today (February 20).
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME

2-21-43

77.09.863.a

Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
To Be Revenged
Somewhere in Russia—Another evidence that Nazi troops take pride in the atrocities they commit is this photo of hanged Red citizens found on a dead German fighters. To forever quell resistance, Hitlerite hangmen methodically exterminate populations of villages they capture. Soviets are getting their revenge on the battlefields.
Credit: ACME radiotelephoto

2-21-43

77.09.1168

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
SUNK BY JAPS
Photo shows the United States Destroyer, De Haven, which was sunk February 1 during a Japanese air attack off Savo Island in the South Pacific.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME

2-22-43

77.09.889

New York Bureau
Plywood Training Plane
Burlington, N.C.—The only metal used in the Fairchild AT-21 (above) is in the engines, engine supports, instruments and certain other equipment supports. The rest of the five-beater plane is built of plastic bonded plywood. It is in the 200-miles-per-hour class and was designed primarily to train gunner crews to work as a team. It’s made by Fairchild Aircraft, Burlington.
Credit: ACME

2-22-43

77.09.1082

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
FOR HITLER’S YOUNGEST VICTIMS
NEW YORK CITY – Janine Putter, refugee child from France, lights one of the memorial candles at a Solemn Assembly of Prayer and Protest held at the Mecca Temple today by three thousand Jewish children from 518 religious schools in greater New York. The assembly was held for the children in Nazi-occupied countries.
Credit: ACME

2-22-43

77.09.1083

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
YOUNG JEWISH REFUGEE CHILDREN
NEW YORK CITY – A group of refugee children recently arrived in this country from Europe stand behind the American Flag at a Solemn Assembly of Prayer and Protest held today at the Mecca Temple by three thousand Jewish children from 518 religious schools in greater New York for the children in Nazi-occupied countries. Left to Right: Ingeborg Jacob, Germany; Ruth Friedberg, Poland; Abraham Brumberg, Poland; Helen Springer Germany; Manfred Kochen, Luxembourg; and Janine Putter, France.
Credit: ACME

2-22-43

77.09.1106

NEW YORK BUREAU
FRENCH DESTROYERS IN BOSTON FOR REPAIRS
BOSTON, MASS. – Sailors of the French destroyer “Le Fantasque” cheer on their arrival in Boston, where their ship together with French destroyer “Le Terrible” will be put in trim fighting condition before joining the Allied fleet.
Credit: ACME

02-23-43

77.09.3243

Fortress Foray in Solomons
Solomon Islands – After unleashing fire and destruction on Jap installations on Gizo island (right rear), a U.S. Flying fortress wings back toward its home base with other four-motored champions of the sky.  The raid was part of a triple-pronged aerial thrust against the enemy during the fight for Guadalcanal.
Credit (Official U.S. Navy photo –ACME)

2-24-43

77.09.2324

AMERICAN BOMBERS RAID SARDINIA
CAGLIARI, SARDINIA—Two strings of bombs from Flying Fortresses and Martin Marauder bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces fall on the airdrome at Cagliari, damaging Axis sea and land planes, during a daylight attack. All of our bombers, protected by Lockheed Lightning Fighters, returned from the raid safely.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Force photo from Acme