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

Date      

Image #

Caption

9-12-43

77.09.3818

Chicago Bureau
Rehearsal for Mercy
Chicago—Navy men from Chicago try out the new naval hospital ship, the Howard Nightingale, first of a new type of swift, maneuverable plane being turned out to transport badly wounded men from battle fronts to hospitals behind the lines. The plane holds two wire basket-type stretchers, one above the other, in a rigid position so that manipulation of the plane while dodging possible enemy pursuit will not further injure the patients. Naval officials and the Howard Aircraft Company, manufacturers of the ship, are dedicating it to Florence Nightingale. Photo No. 1 shows a stretcher being carried from an ambulance to the plane. (passed for publication)
Credit: ACME.

9-12-43

77.09.3819

Chicago Bureau
Rehearsal for Mercy
Chicago—Navy men from Chicago try out the new naval hospital ship, the Howard Nightingale, first of a new type of swift, maneuverable plane being turned out to transport badly wounded men from battle fronts to hospitals behind the lines. The plane holds two wire basket-type stretchers, one above the other, in a rigid position so that manipulation of the plane while dodging possible enemy pursuit will not further injure the patients. Naval officials and the Howard Aircraft Company, manufacturers of the ship, are dedicating it to Florence Nightingale. Photo No. 2 is a close-up of the plane as a stretcher is placed in it.(passed for publication).
Credit: ACME.

9-13-43

77.09.651

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
A Nazi Souvenir
RUSSIA – A Russian peasant crouches over his grave before being shot by a Nazi Gestapo agent, in this snapshot found on a German prisoner of war, one Pvt. Ludwig who served with a detachment of the 16^th German Army. Although the determined Russian civilians need no further incentive to hate the Nazis, the photo was published in “Red Star.”
Credit (ACME Radiophoto)

9-13-43

77.09.1308

NEW YORK BUREAU
NOT FOXY ENOUGH
Four soldiers who participated in the Allied invasion of Jap-deserted Kiska Island hold four baby blue foxes they found in a hole in rocks on Segula, a small island a short distance from Kiska. The foxes weren’t foxy enough to avoid capture. The men are (L-R) Sgt. Marshall B. Brooks, of Shreveport, La.; Ray Burton, a Canadian soldier from Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada; Sgt. Robert G. Johnson, of Bloominton, Ind.; and Sgt. Herman W. Grae, of San Antonio, Tex. The foxes were named Winken, Blinken, Stinken, and Nod.
Credit: Acme

9-13-43

77.09.1353

RADIOTELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
ITALIAN FLEET ON WAY TO SURRENDER
This photo, flashed to the U.S. today by radiotelephoto, shows three ships of the Italian Navy as they passed the British battleship H.M.S. Warspite, (in foreground), on their way with other units of the fleet to Valetta, Malta, to surrender to the Allies after having escaped from Italy. Left to right, the vessels are: the battleships Italia and Vittorio Veneto, and the cruiser Savoia (flagship).
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto from Acme

9-13-43

77.09.1820

RADIOTELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
ITALIAN FLEET ARRIVES AT MALTA
This photo, flashed to the U.S. today by radiotelephoto, shows Admiral D’Zara of the Italian Fleet, landing from his barge at Valetta, Malta, after his arrival with the bulk of the Italian Fleet for formal surrender to the Allies. Just after this photo was taken, Admiral D’Zara conferred with Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Allied Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Naval Forces.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto from Acme

9-13-43

77.09.2195.a

Washington Bureau-Acme Newspictures
First Aid for American Wounded as we Invade Italy
The above picture flashed to the United States by Radiotelephoto shows a wounded American soldier injured during U.S. landing operations on Italian soil is carried to an advance first aid station.
Credit Line (Acme photo by Charles Corte for the Picture Pool via U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto)

9-13-43

77.09.2196

Washington Bureau-Acme Newspictures
As We Invaded Italy – First Photo
The above picture flashed to the United States by Radiotelephoto shows a tank wrecked during the landing operations on Italian soil. Infantrymen (in background) are advancing through still burning fields.
Credit Line (Acme Photo by Charles Corte for the Picture Pool via U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto)

9-13-43

77.09.2231

Washington Bureau-Acme Newspictures
Landing Supplies on Italy’s Shore
The above photo flashed to the United States by Radiotelephoto shows – the quick unloading of supplies to keep pace with the fast moving United States troops as they invaded Italy. Under constant strafing and bombing by German planes this important job was extremely hazardous.
Credit Line (Acme Photo via US Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto)

9-13-43

77.09.2433

NEW YORK BUREAU
OURS
NEW GUINEA—Japs, hiding in a barge with rifles and grenades, took the lives of these three American fighters who were mapping up on the last day of the Buna Gona battle in New Guinea, last January. Beach and barge action was the bloodiest and most fierce of any Buna action, and these boys are among those who lost their lives but helped win the battle.
Credit: Acme

9-13-43

77.09.3784

New York Bureau
First Photos of Firing of “Bazooka”
Washington, D.C.—This is one of the first photos to be released by the War Department of the firing of the U.S. Army’s new rocket gun, popularly known as the “bazooka” and officially listed as “Launcher, Rocket, AT, W-1. The gun has proven very effective against tanks, can be carried by foot soldiers and be used in places inaccessible to large anti-tank guns. Here, one soldier holds the “bazooka” on his shoulder, while another man loads it with a rocket.
Credit: US Signal Corps Photo from ACME.

9-14-43

77.09.169

Washington Bureau-ACME Newspictures
United States Troops Advance in Italy
The above photo flashed to the U S by radiotelephoto shows United States infantrymen ferreting out a German sniper who was hidden in this house during their advance through the outskirts of an Italian town.
Credit: (U S Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME)

9-14-43

77.09.1767

WASHINGTON BUREAU
ACME NEWSPICTURES
UNITED STATES TROOPS ADVANCE IN ITALY
The above photo flashed to the U S by Radiotelephoto shows an American tank destroyer entering a town in Italy on the morning of Sept. 10^th after our troops had effected a landing near the town.
Credit: U S Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from Acme

9-14-43

77.09.1904

New York Bureau
First Captives at Salerno
ITALY – These disorganized Nazi prisoners of war, the first batch to be rounded up on the beach after the Allied landing in Salerno, bear little resemblance to “super-men.” Their Axis comrades, however, are putting up stiff resistance to our onslaught, fighting desperately in the most bitter action of the invasion campaign.
Credit Line (British Army Photo from ACME Transmitted from OWI)

9-14-43

77.09.3008

JAPS STRIKE FROM AIR
PORT MORESBY—A Jap bombing mission on the airport at Port Moresby, New Guinea, back in 1942 proved somewhat successful, jutting from the broken plane in background. While it burns unattended, ground men are fighting a fire inside the plane at right. The Australian soldier running toward the camera is carrying cans in which to get water. This picture has just been released by the War Department.
Credit: ACME PHOTO BY FRANK PRIST, JR., CAMERAMAN FOR THE WAR POOL.

9-14-43

77.09.3009

FUTURE MEDICINE FOR THE JAPS
NEW GUINEA—Parts of these guns, weighing from 100 to 250 pounds, made a perilous journey over the precipitous Lababia Ridge from Nassau Bay. They are in an ammunition dump of a U.S. battery in New Guinea.
Credit: ACME.

9-14-43

77.09.3010

AMBULANCE AFOOT
New Guinea—A wounded American soldier is carried from the advance dressing station at House Banana, somewhere the New Guinea, before being turned over to natives who will shoulder the stretcher to the next day’s staging camp, a day’s walking distance away. This camp is on the track several thousands of feet up in the mountains of the Tambu area of New Guinea where there is a mist at some time each day. Here, the mean rest in tiered bunks and the walls are covered with blankets.
Credit: ACME.

9-14-43

77.09.2479

New York Bureau
On the March in Italy
Italy—Shortly after they landed at an adjacent beach, U.S. infantrymen march through a seacoast town in Italy. The Nazi propaganda machine has it that we are abandoning our beachheads in Salerno, but the report is only enemy wishful thinking.
Credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps radiotelephoto.

9-14-43

77.09.4032.a-b

New York Bureau
U.S. Sub Lost
Washington, D.C. - A communiqué by the Navy Department, Sept. 14, announced the loss of the U.S. submarine Grenadier (above), one of the Navy’s newer underwater ships. The twelfth American submarine to be lost in this war, the Grenadier is presumed to have gone down in the Pacific. It carried a crew of approximately 65.
Credit: ACME

9-15-43

77.009.2354

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
WATCH ON A “DUCK”
SALERNO, ITALY—Scanning the skies for enemy planes, these Yanks stand watch with a heavy anti-aircraft machine gun mounted atop an amphibious, 2-1/2-ton “duck” on a beach in the Salerno area. Photo radioed to New York from Algiers today (Sept. 15^th).
Credit: Official OWI radiophoto from Acme

9-15-43

77.09.3007

NEAR-MISS ON A NIP
This photo, just released by the War Department was taken from one of a group of U.S. Fifth Air Force bombers, during a recent low-level attack on Wewak Harbor, important supply base in New Guinea for Salamaua and Lae. Jap ship, (in foreground), has just been shaken by bombs exploding, (white circles astern), in the water. At the right, one of the Yank bombers, flying through the black puffs of heavy anti-aircraft fire, has just dropped its load of bombs. The small boats tied alongside the freighter are lighters. Today, Salamaua is in the hands of the Allies, who are only two miles from the center of the Jap base at Lae.
Credit: U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES PHOTO FROM ACME.

09-15-43

77.09.3201

Yank “Eggs” for Nip Ships
This photo, just release by the War department, shows giant geysers from exploding American bombs near Japanese ships anchored in Wewak Harbor during a recent low altitude attack by U.S. bombers, (one can be seen, top right), on the important New Guinea supply base for Lae and Salamaua.  The small lighter, (foreground), tries to zigzag out of harm’s way.  Today, the allies are in possession of Salamaua and are within two miles of the center of Lae.
Credit line U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME

09-15-43

77.09.3446

New York Bureau
Flaming Backdrop
Tunis – With the smoke and flame of fires started by the Luftwaffe forming a backdrop, British soldiers speedily remove equipment from a bombed zone in Tunis.  Although this photo was made nearly a year ago, it has just been released by censors.
Credit line – WP – (ACME)

9-15-43

77.09.2480.a

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Bombs Hit Strategic Point Near Naples
U.S. Army Air Forces bombs fall on Concello, Italy, during the raid of September 9^th. Twenty-five miles northwest of Naples, Concello lies on the winding Volturno River. Flying Fortresses went after two highway and one railroad bridge spanning the river as they sought to cut vital communications, thereby bottlenecking German forces opposing the American 5^th Army below Naples. The railroad bridge suffered direct hits, while the other two were barely damaged.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo via Signal Corps radiotelephoto from ACME.

9-16-43

77.09.2355

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
NAZIS GRAB ITALIAN TANK
NORTHERN ITALY—German soldiers take over an Italian tank in northern Italy, where the “supermen” are battling their former allies. Nazis are using much “commandeered” equipment in the fight for Salerno, where Americans and British are clinging tenaciously to their beachhead, in spite of savage German assaults. Photo radioed from Stockholm to New York today (Sept. 16^th).
Credit: Acme radiophoto