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5-24-43 |
77.09.4115a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
DRY LANDING
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND – All set for invasion and no place to invade is
the predicament of these royal Marines who are ready to pile out of a
landing barge built on dry land. With their faces blackened, they
receive instructions from an officer on the “invasion” craft in
Southern England. These fighters, undergoing the toughest of
training, hope to be the first Allied troops to set foot on the
European continent.
Credit: Acme |
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5-25-43 |
77.09.983 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
SURVIVOR OF ANDREWS CRASH
Sgt. George A. Eisel, who was the only survivor of the Iceland plane
crash where Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews and 13 others met death, grins
from his hospital bed in Iceland. The Columbus, Ohio soldier has
survived another crash in North Africa that took the lives of three
comrades. He holds the DFC, the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters
and the Purple Heart.
Credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps photo via OWI Radiophoto from Acme |
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5-25-43 |
77.09.2598 |
New York Bureau
Helicopter Takes to the Ocean
A helicopter hovers over a small square marked off on the deck of a
tanker, performing the tiny-space landing to prove its value as a sub
fighter. In a recent demonstration on Long Island Sound, the wingless
aircraft made 24 landings and take-offs from the small deck of a
moving tanker. The craft, known as the Army Air Forces R-4 Helicopter,
is an AAF development. A plan is in progress to install a small deck
on Liberty ships to permit helicopters to be used at sea in
anti-submarine duty.
Credit: Official AAF photo from ACME |
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5-26-43 |
77.09.2523 |
New York Bureau
GETTING “THE WORKS”
Italian prisoners, captured during the latter part of the Tunisian
campaign, get “the works” at the desert barber shop set up within the
barbed wire barriers of their prisoner-of-war camp. Why the primping,
boys, you aren’t’ going anywhere?
Credit Line (OWI Radiophoto from ACME) |
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5-26-43 |
77.09.2524 |
New York Bureau
DIRECT HIT ON ITALIAN LINER
A Flying Fortress has just registered a direct hit on this huge
Italian Liner, converted to carry troops, and smoke almost completely
hides the vessel in this photo released in Washington today. Vessel’s
wake, (at right, in photo) shows it was trying to swing in a wide
circle to avoid bomb hits from the plane, which was attached to the
Northwest African Strategic Air Force operating in the Mediterranean
area.
Credit Line (U.S. Army Air Forces Photo from ACME) |
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05-26-43 |
77.09.2836 |
Washington Bureau – ACME Newspictures
First Photos of Our Attack on Attu
As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian islands, May 11, 1943, a
Navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American
troops ashore at Japanese-occupied Attu, the Westernmost island of the
Aleutian chain. This photo was made at the start of the attack and
shows that landing boats having been put over the side of the
transports are beginning to move towards the beach. The searchlight
of the destroyer cuts thru the fog like a pencil.
Credit Line (U.S. Navy official photo from ACME) |
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05-26-43 |
77.09.2837 |
New York Bureau
First Photos of Yank Landing on Attu
Washington, D.C.- - This photo, one of the first taken of the landing
of U.S. troops on Jap-held island last May 11th, was taken
by a Navy combat photographer and released in Washington today.
Cameramen who took these photos of the landing at two points on the
island, Massacre Bay and Holtz Bay, were under Jap fire many times.
Here, U.S. troops advance in the face of enemy fire. This is a front
line shot made just as a bank of fog came rolling in. While this
photo was taken, Jap bullets were singing by.
Credit Line (U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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5-26-43 |
77.09.3559 |
New York Bureau
Bullets the Axis Didn’t Use
Enfidaville, Tunisia—Scattered beside the wrecked train are shells
blown out of a railway car by Allied dive bombers making an attack on
Enfidaville during the drive on Tunis. The fury and exactness of
Allied air attacks on enemy supplies and communications played a major
part in the capture of North Africa from the Axis.
Credit: ACME. |
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5-26-43 |
77.09.3560 |
New York Bureau
Yanks in Bizerte
Bizerte, Tunisia—Crouching beside the ruins of buildings, a U.S.
patrol awaits the order to move forward, while another patrol moves
forward to reconnotter. Street to street and house to house fighting
took place between Allied and Axis troops before Bizerte became Allied
property.
Credit: ACME. |
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5-26-43 |
77.09.4009.a-b |
First Photos of Yank Landing on Attu
Washington, D.C. -- This photo, one of the first taken of the landing
of U.S. troops on Jap-held Attu Island last May 11, was taken by a
Navy combat photographer and released in Washington today. Cameramen
who took these photos of the landing at two points on the island,
Massacre Bay and Holtz Bay, were under Jap fire many times. Here,
heavily laden landing boats, with soldiers crouching down out of line
of sniper fire, approach the west arm of Holtz Bay. Passed by censor.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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5-27-43 |
77.09.1306 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD RESCUES ARMY BOMBER CREW
Four members of an Army bomber crew who had been forced down at sea re
picked up by a whaleboat from the U.S.S. Marblehead in a recent rescue
by the famous Navy cruiser. The men spent five days on a rubber life
raft in perilous seas without food and only eleven ounces of water.
Credit: Off. U.S. Navy photo from Acme |
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5-27-43 |
77.09.1307 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
INFLATION LINE
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND—Mark VI balloons of the Royal Navy stand in line
inside the inflation shed in which they are housed. Valuable because
they help to protect ships from air attack, the balloons are used on
drafters, trawlers, and other vessels.
Credit: Acme |
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05-27-43 |
77.09.2834 |
New York Bureau
Attu—All eyes focus anxiously on the Aleutian skies as American
fighting men watch their air arm fly into battle. The guns, of
course, are focused on the Japs in the hills of Attu as U.S. troops
begin operations on that Westernmost island of the Aleutian chain.
Latest reports from Attu indicate that the island’s rough, rocky
terrain may delay the final Allied push against the Japs.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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05-27-43 |
77.09.2840 |
New York Bureau
“Old Glory” Takes Possession
Attu – The American flag flutters from a mast in this captured Jap
landing boat as our men bring it ashore on the beach of Attu’s
Massacre Bay. Latest reports from that Aleutian Island indicate that
fierce hand-to-hand fighting is now under way in the primitive wilds
of Attu, with U.S. troops believed to be hacking their way through
death traps with bayonet and grenade.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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5-27-43 |
77.09.2978 |
OVER THE SIDE INTO BATTLE
ATTU—Two landing boats are swung aloft from one of the ships that
brought American troops to Attu to harass the Japs on that
western-most island of the Aleutian chain. Filled with rarin’-to-go
fighting men. Boats like these slid onto the shores of Massacre and
Holtz Bays on Attu on May 11th, carrying the battle right
of the Japs. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting is believed to be taking
place on Attu at present, with the American hand uppermost.
Credit: ACME. |
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5-28-43 |
77.09.2522 |
New York Bureau
ANOTHER PLASTERING FOR PANTELLERIA
Runways and planes at the Italian airport on Pantelleria Island become
so much rubble for the ever-growing Axis wartime garbage can as they
are peppered by U.S. Flyers. Precision bombing by AAF bombardiers is
rendering useless airports and installations on the Italian side of
the Mediterranean.
Credit (Official U.S. Army Air Forces Photo-ACME) |
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05-28-43 |
77.09.2838 |
New York Bureau
Bombs Over Nauru – Thick smoke clouds rise from Jap phosphate works on
Nauru Island as American bombs find their mark on that South Pacific
island which lies in the Gilbert Island group Northeast of
Guadalcanal. Five to seven Japanese Zeros were shot down in the Nauru
raid, with no American planes lost. Funafuti, largest of the Ellice
Islands, which was occupied by American forces in April, served as a
base for the raiders.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME) |
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05-29-43 |
77.09.2835 |
New York Bureau
Double Purpose
Attu – A warm fire on Attu’s chilly beach serves a double purpose. It
cooks a hot meal and thaws out the hands of these U.S. sailors in the
Holtz Bay area of Attu island, following the landing there to drive
out or destroy the Japanese Garrison. Even in May that cold-weather
garb and those skies (foreground) come in handy in the Aleutians.
Credit (Official US Navy photo from ACME) |
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05-29-43 |
77.09.2839 |
New York Bureau
Supplies Come to Attu
Attu- - Crates of supplies litter the beach of Attu as landing barges
bring more supplies ashore to American fighting men. The equipment
will be carried inland over newly constructed roads, which are the
dark strips that wind across the top of photo. Latest reports from
Attu indicate that the beleaguered Japs in the Chicago and Sabana Bay
areas again gave ground before assaults of American troops, now
inching their way forward to eliminate the remnants of enemy forces
still holding positions on the Island.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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5-30-43 |
77.09.4007.a-b |
New York Bureau
Back Ahead of Schedule
Seattle, Washington -- These boys fought on Attu, but their wounds
brought them back to the states before the death knell for Jap forces
there had been sounded. Recuperating at an army hospital and impatient
for the day when they’ll get another crack at the Nip are: (left to
right) Pvt. John E. Terknett of Eastland, Texas; Pvt. Joseph E. Kenski
of Detroit, Michigan; Pvt. James A. Meredity of Springfield, Illinois;
Pvt. Woodrow W. French of Greenwood, Mississippi; and Sgt. Forrest W.
Johnson of Flatriver, Missouri. Passed by censor.
Credit: ACME |
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5-30-43 |
77.09.4008.a-b |
New York Bureau
Two More Subs to Sink the Axis
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Two more undersea fighters went out to
beat Axis U-Boats at their own deadly game when the U.S.S. Devilfish
(left) and the U.S.S. Hackleback slid down the ways at Cramp Shipyards
today. The Devilfish was christened by Mrs. Frank W. Fenno of
Williamsport, wife of a Navy Cross winner. Mrs. William L. Wright of
Corpus Christi, Texas, whose husband was decorated for the sinking of
three Jap warships and five Merchantmen, sponsored the Hackleback.
Credit: ACME |
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5-31-43 |
77.09.260 |
"Workhorse of War"
The unprecedented combat record of the aircraft carrier U.S.S.
Enterprise recently earned her a unit citation conferred by President
Roosevelt. The Navy revealed tonight that the five-year-old ship has
inflicted damage on the enemy estimated at eight to ten times her own
cost. Planes, submarines, all types of enemy surface vessels, and
shore installations have been destroyed or badly damaged in record
number by the aircraft carried on the 19,900-ton carrier.
Credit (Official U.S. Navy Photo-ACME) |
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5-31-43 |
77.09.1006 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
FIGHTING FRENCH HAIL DE GAULLE
ALGIERS, N. AFRICA – Just after his long awaited arrival in North
Africa, General Charles De Gaulle (right) returns the salute of
Fighting French soldiers as he leaves the airfield outside of Algiers
with General Henri Giraud (left). Although Giraud made no announcement
of the May 30th arrival of the Fighting French leader,
Algerian crowds quickly discovered his presence and ignored bans on
public demonstrations by shouting: “Vive De Gaulle.”
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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5-31-43 |
77.09.1059 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
HERALDING FRENCH UNITY
ALGIERS – After an exchange of salutes and handshakes, General Charles
De Gaulle (left) and General Henri Giraud leave the airport outside of
Algiers where the Fighting French General landed May 30 for the long
expected meeting. A very select committee greeted De Gaulle –Vichyites
excluded. Although no public announcement of De Gaulle’s arrival was
posted, the North African grapevine drew cheering crowds into the
streets with cries of “Vive De Gaulle.”
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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05-31-43 |
77.09.3441 |
New York Bureau
French Egyptian Fleet to Come to New York
London – French warships at Alexandria (shown above), which have been
lying immobilized since the Fall of France three years ago, have com
under the allied control, according to a Berlin radio report last
night. The report, not immediately confirmed by any allied source,
quoted a Vichy French Government announcement which said that the
fleet “had given in to American and British pressure” and that
“crewmen said they would join the allies.” One battleship, four
cruisers, three destroyers, one submarine and a number of small
auxiliary vessels make up the Alexandria fleet.
Credit line (ACME) |
