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

Date      

Image #

Caption

9-5-43

77.09.2412

NEW YORK BUREAU
SALAMAUA AIRFIELD
NEW GUINEA—Here is an aerial view of the Jap-held airbase at Salamaua, 25 miles south of Lae, on the northeast coast of New Guinea. Allied forces launched a land, sea, and air attack on Lae this morning (Sept. 5^th), cutting off the Salamaua base, which is rapidly being encircled. Photo made from an American Army Air Forces plane.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo from Acme

9-6-43

77.09.2233

New York Bureau
White Ensign Over Italy
REGGIO HARBOR, ITALY – The first Allied flag to fly over the Italian mainland, Britain’s white ensign flutters above Reggio harbor. Latest reports indicate that Allied commando raids behind the German lines have resulted in the fall of Melito and Bagnara.
Credit Line (Acme Radiophoto)

9-6-43

77.09.2234

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Food Disappears in Wake of Trouble
OLDENSE, DENMARK – Nazi-hatred fired Danes into action two weeks ago, and explosions, fires, and violence were the result. A German officer was stamped to death by Danish boots in Oldense, for example, and in the wake of the uprising came great shortages of food. Here residents of Oldense queue up at a dairy shop as Danish policemen supervise after martial law had been declared.
Credit Line (Acme Radiophoto)

9-6-43

77.09.3821

Chicago Bureau
Flying Forts in Mid-Air Crash
St. Louis, Mo.—Following by only a few days the collision of two Liberator bombers near Fort Worth, Tex., two Flying Fortresses collided 3,000 feet above Salem, Mo., 150 miles southwest of St. Louis, and plummeted to earth with the toll of known dead at five, according to the Army Air Base at Dyersburg, Tenn. Seven men are said to have parachuted to safety. Others are not yet accounted for.
Credit: ACME.

9-7-43

77.09.918

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Victor’s Salute
Italy—General Bernard L. Montgomery, chief of the British 8^th Army, salutes his fighting men as they pass through a street in Reggio Calabria. This is the first photo of the Allied foothold on the continent of Europe and since it was taken the 8^th Army has driven steadily ahead on the Calabrian coastal road extending the invasion around Italy’s southernmost tip to about 60 miles.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME.

9-7-43

77.09.2138

 

New York Bureau
Factory on Danube Hit
GERMANY – Tucked away in a bend of the Danube near the Austrian border at Regensburg, the Germans had built a mammoth aircraft factory which produced their latest type fighter, the ME. 109G. On August 17^th, large formation of Flying Forts of 8^th Air Force attacked the plant and severely damaged it. Photo was made from bombers during height of attack. Germans lost 140 fighters while Americans lost 23 Forts.
Credit Line (ACME)

9-7-43

77.09.2139

 

New York Bureau
No Hard Feelings
ITALY – No official interpreter is needed for Italian soldiers and sailors to tell Royal Air Force airmen that they are glad to be captured, near Reggio Calabria, because it means they are out of the war. Taken by a British RAF photographer, this photo is a first shot of action to follow the invasion.
Credit (OWI Radiophoto from Acme)

9-7-43

77.09.2232

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
A Bunch of Smart Sappers
ITALY – Shortly after landing, British sappers go to work at the ticklish job of clearing the beaches north of Reggio Calabria of mines sowed by the Axis. “Actual” enemy resistance was slight, but mines, demolition of bridges and roadways, and the rough terrain has slowed the steady Allied advance in Italy. This is a first photo of “action” on the continent of Europe.
Credit Line (OWI Radiophoto from Acme)

9-7-43

77.09.3820

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Brazil Celebrates 122 Years of Independence
Rio de Janeiro—Twenty-eight ton tanks of a Brazilian mechanized division pass the Ministry of War building in Rio de Janeiro during the giant parade of 50,000 troops to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day. This photo is one of the first to be transmitted over the direct radio-photo service between Rio and New York just opened by the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Corporation.
Credit: ACME radiophoto.

9-10-43

77.09.100

“City of the Dead”
Milan – Suffering heavily from bombing attacks by the Allies, Milan was described as “a city of the dead, without gas, water or electricity.” This photo, received through a neutral source, shows wreckage in the Piazza Fontana of the industrial city.
Credit: (ACME)

9-10-43

77.09.1007

RADIOPHOTO
CHICAGO BUREAU
UNSCHEDULED MEETING
CHICAGO – Vice-President Henry Wallace and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox meet unexpectedly at the Glenview Naval Air Station near Chicago when Wallace, in Chicago to make a “major address” before a mass meeting dedicated to winning the peace, was making a tour of the naval base and Knox arrived.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME

9-10-43

77.09.1328

GOOD LUCK, PAL
SICILY—An American Ranger shakes hands with a British Commando, just before the two specialist fighters leave a Sicilian port and set out for Italy. Each of these Allied soldiers knows what the other is up against, for both do the same sort of rough-and-tumble fighting.
Credit: Acme photo via U.S. Army Signal Corps radiotelephoto

9-10-43

77.09.2235

New York Bureau
Milan Cathedral Still Stands
MILAN – The famous Milan Cathedral, although close to the oft-bombed railroad marshalling yards, suffered only slight damage to one of its steeples and sides as a result of powerful allied air raids before Italy capitulated.
Credit Line (Acme) WP

9-10-43

77.09.2236

New York Bureau
Still the Best Method of Persuasion
MILAN – Words of reason, entreaty or threat had no effect on our fascist enemies until we started to back them up with destructive force. Typical of that force is the bombing of Milan, chief railroad center of northern Italy. Here is the Piazza San Carlo in Milan as it appeared after one of the raids.
Credit Line (Acme) WP

9-10-43

77.09.2545

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
The Distinction of Being First
Italy – The first group of Italian prisoners to be taken in Italy proper are rounded up at Gallico, Marina, Italy, where they were captured by British Commandos in a raid from Mili-Marina, Sicily. Although the “unconditional surrender” armistice with Italy had already been signed, it was not yet announced when this photo was made at the Italian port.
Credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME

9-10-43

77.09.2546

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
U.S. Soldiers Get Set for Italy
Bunches of L.C.I.’s await boarding by these American fighters at an unnamed Mediterranean port. Their destination? Italy, where more than a few Nazis need some rough treatment.
Credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME

09-10-43

77.09.2921

New York Bureau
RAF Blasts Jap Freight in Burma
Burma – Freight cars, carrying cotton and ground nuts which are vital Japanese war materials, between Monywa and Sagaing, are blasted by raiding RAF Beaufighters.  Striking with cannon and machine guns, the Beaufighters were detailed to attack this important Burmese railway line.
Credit Line (ACME)

9-10-43

77.09.4519ab

New York Bureau
High-Flying Mascot
England – Looking just the least bit frightened, “Lady Moe” curls up on the floor of the Flying Fortress “The Miracle Tribe” as T/Sgt. H.J. Amacker mans the bomber’s waist gun. Lady Moe, a donkey, is the mascot of the plane’s crew, who purchased her from an Arab for 400 francs.
Credit: ACME

9-12-43

77.09.2230

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Leapfrog
SAN GIOVANNI, ITALY – The train jumped the tracks then the tracks jumped the train in a wartime game of leapfrog when Allied bombers scored a direct hit on the railway running through San Giovanni. Photo radioed to New York today (September 12^th).
Credit (British Army – OWI Radiophoto from Acme)

9-12-43

77.09.2547

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Here Comes a Peacetime Bride
Sicily – The war is over in Sicily, and a native bride arrives at the church with her attendants. The wedding in Lentini is watched by an R.A.F. driver, Corp. G. Hennah, of London. Life has resumed its normal flow in Sicilian towns occupied by the Allies, and civilians who fled the battle zones are back in their homes with their neighboring farms once again harvesting crops.
Credit: ACME

9-12-43

77.09.2548

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Smoking Out the Nazis
Italy – Bomb bursts blanket the town of Frascati, Italy, as Flying Fortresses of the Northwest African Air Forces destroy the German military headquarters located there. The furious September 8 raid followed the capitulation of Italy.
Credit: AAF photo by Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME

9-12-43

77.09.2549

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Two More Military Targets Picked Off
Italy – A double-track electrified railroad and the Piaggio Aircraft Factory in Pisa, Italy, get a load of bombs from U.S. Flying Fortresses. The River shown is the Arno, and the road and bridge at lower left of photo lead to the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa which was not disturbed.
Credit: Army Air Forces photo from ACME

9-12-43

77.09.2550

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
We Destroy Link to Brenner Pass
American Flying Fortresses knock out the Bolzano Railroad Bridge in Northern Italy, the farthest-from-home point the North African based planes raided before the capitulation of the Axis nation. Bologna and Trente also were attacked by the B-17s on the same mission when the important link to the Brenner Pass was demolished.
Credit: Army Air Forces photo from ACME

09-12-43

77.09.2919

New York Bureau
Protection From Further Wounds
New Guinea—While awaiting transportation to a hospital, American fighters wounded in the battle for Salamaua are placed in dugouts near the front.  Corporal Paul Schofield, of New Bedford, Mass., bends over some of the victims who await the arrival of barges on a beach near the scene of fierce fighting.
Credit Line (ACME)

09-12-43

77.09.2920

New York Bureau
Victims of Jap Bullets
New Guinea – American soldiers who were wounded on the Salamaua front in New Guinea are loaded in barges on a nearby beach, and are on their way to a hospital.  The announcement of the fall of the Jap stronghold at Salamaua is expected almost momentarily, and this photo shows part of the price of victory.
Credit Line (ACME)