Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 7
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Caption |
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77.09.2759 |
New York Bureau
The Japs Don’t See the “Beauty” of it
New Britain – Almost perfectly aligned white blobs of smoke tell a
success story of precision bombing by U.S. Army Fifth Air Force B-24’s
and B-25’s who smack Cape Gloucester as the Marines move in. The
milky columns of smoke have a background of flame and darker smoke
which shrouds the Pacific shore line. |
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77.09.2779 |
New York Bureau
Well Earned Rest
Roi Island: - Sprawled in utter exhaustion, these Marines, “Mac”
MacFarland, of Tennessee (left), and Arthur Maycock, of New York City,
sleep after they had done their part in the invasion of Roi Island in
Kwajalein Atoll.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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77.09.2860 |
No caption, only photo provided. |
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77.09.2879 |
No caption provided, only photo |
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77.09.2886 |
115-smoke dims the sky as a building within Manila’s famed
walled city burns after Jap air attack.
No Credit line provided |
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77.09.2887 |
New York Bureau
As the U.S. Navy Struck Back
With the Pacific fleet – Guns of a U.S. cruiser thunder America’s
first powerful answer to the Jap’s sneak raid on Pearl Harbor. This
picture, among the first of our Navy’s sweeping victory in the
Marshall and Gilbert islands, was made during the shelling of Wotje
Atoll, one of the Marshall group. Shells and aerial bombs destroyed
virtually all military installations and stores on the island, and
sank from seven to nine ships anchored offshore.
Credit Line: Pathe Newsreel (From ACME) |
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77.09.2888 |
New York Bureau
As the U.S. Navy Struck Back
With the Pacific Fleet – Guns from a U.S. cruiser thunder America’s
first answer to Japan’s sneak attack at Pearl Harbor. This picture,
among the first of the U.S. Navy raid on the Marshall and Gilbert
islands in the Western Pacific, was made during the shelling of Wotje
Atol. Enemy hangars, fuel stores and munitions dumps were set ablaze,
and a number of ships anchored off the island, were sunk by shelling
and aerial bombardment.
Credit Line: Pathe Newsreel (from ACME) |
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77.09.2890 |
As U.S. Navy Struck Back
With the Pacific Fleet – One of the U.S. warships taking part in the
punishing raid on Japan’s Marshall and Gilbert islands in the Western
Pacific, makes a quick turn to avoid enemy bombs. Only superficial
damage was sustained by fleet units in the action which was America’s
first powerful counter-blow on Japanese territory.
Credit Line: Pathe Newsreel (from ACME) |
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77.09.2896 |
When additional treatment is required patients are
transported to the portable hospitals which are often no less than 800
yds to the rear and streams have to be crossed as shown here with Sgt.
W.H. Manley attending 2 men while another member of the medical
detachment aids in ferrying raft across stream. Signal Corps photo
from ACME. |
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77.09.2924.a |
New York Bureau
Liberator Makes Record “Three-Engine” Flight
Southwest Pacific – A stricken B-24 Liberator, piloted by Lt. Raymond
L. Dufur, Portland, Ore., made one of the longest “three-engine”
flights on record in the 13th Air Force when it returned
safely after one engine was shot out and another was cut off
temporarily as gasoline leaked towards red hot exhaust. The plane
began to lose altitude and things looked pretty black for awhile until
repairs were made and three engines were functioning again. Lt.
Dufur’s crew is: left to right, front row: Sgt. Thomas Fann, Winter
Haven, Fla., gunner; S/Sgt. Marion C. Wiatrowski, Chicago, Ill, radio
operator; Cpl. Fred Cox, Vernon, Tex., gunner; Cpl. Wayne P. Moore,
Gracemont, Okla., gunner (American Indian from the Delaware tribe)
S/Sgt. Eugene Illingworth, Los Angeles, Calif., engineer. Back row,
left to right: Lt. Bill Biddle, Ione, Ore., co-pilot; Lt. Raymond L.
Dufur, Portland, Ore., pilot; Lt. Leo R. Nowak, 6710 Campbell,
Chicago, Ill., Bombardier; Lt. Lester Arnold, Dayton, Ohio, navigator;
and Cpl. Burlick Andreport, Jr. Eunice, La., gunner.
Credit (ACME photo by Thomas Shafer, War Pool |
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77.09.2931 |
First picture ex-Philippines since hostilities sent American thru
Australia shows Japanese aviators who were shot down & taken prisoner
during raid on Manila.
Credit: U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS FROM ACME. |
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77.09.2948 |
No caption |
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77.09.2967 |
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77.09.2969 |
Fierce fires rage from Jap seaplane hangars set fire by U.S. Army Air
Force bombing raid on the Japs’ Kiska, Alaska Camp area. Thru smoke
from burning installations may be seen planes and boats in water.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Force photo from ACME. |
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77.09.2974 |
ROUGH AND READY RAIDERS
This photo, released in Washington today, shows two tough and
determined U.S. Marine raiders as they were about to go topside on the
U.S. submarine which brought them to Makin Island for the successful
raid in which they took part, last August 17-18.
Credit: U.S. NAVY PHOTO FROM ACME. |
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77.09.3002 |
A U.S. Navy auxiliary vessel, already packed with rescue men, stands
by to pull still more of them from oily waters, where their vessel, a
U.S. Army transport (formerly the S.S. President Coolidge) went down
after striking a mine in the Solomon Islands area. Other small boats
bearing survivors, also take part in the rescue work.
Credit: OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY NEWSREEL POOL FROM ACME TELEPHOTO. |
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77.09.3003 |
Men from the sunken U.S. Army transport, (formerly the S.S. President
Coolidge) line the beach, while others wade ashore after their rescue
by various types of naval units in the Solomon Islands area.
Credit: OFFICIAL NAVY NEWSREEL PIX. |
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77.09.3052 |
New York Bureau
Reds Understand Soviet Winter
SOMEWHERE IN RUSSIA—A light sled forms a practical mount for a
sub-machine gun on the northwestern Soviet front. It glides easily
over the snow and the sub-machine gun operator covers the advance of
Red infantry. Blizzards are sweeping the Stalingrad front, bogging
down Nazi units and trapping mines and tanks deep in the shifting snow
banks.
Credit: ACME |
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77.09.3054 |
No caption |
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77.09.3074 |
New York Bureau
Blasted Orel is Recaptured
Orel, Russia – This is the scene that met the returning
residents of Orel, when Red troops liberated the city in their
crushing drive against the Germans. Gaunt, fire-scarred walls mark
what had been a block of modern apartment buildings, (photo above),
along Krasnoarmeiskaya Street (cq). (Passed by Censors). |
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77.09.3080 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Yank Airfield in Russia
Russia – Shuttle bombing takes an a new and highly potent form now
that it has been revealed that American airfields have been
established in the Soviet Union. The first planes to land on the new
fields were American “Flying Fortresses” after bombing enemy military
targets in Romania. Soviet and American flyers – comrades-in-arms –
are shown talking on one of the Aerodromes before a fighter plane.
Credit: ACME Radiophoto |
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77.09.3098 |
New York Bureau
Newest Flat-Tops Head for Action
One of the first pictures to be released of the U.S. Navy’s most
modern, hard-hitting carriers on a combat mission, shows the flat-tops
of the 25,000-ton Essex class strung out along the horizon heading for
enemy-held Wake Island. Carrier-based Dauntless dive bombers, Grumman
Avenger torpedo planes, and Grumman Hellcats have shot scores of enemy
planes from the sky, pounded shipping and shore installations, and
afford cover for our bombers.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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77.09.3114 |
New York Bureau
Debut of B-29’s
ANSHAN, MANCHURIA – Mountain-high clouds of two-tone smoke rises
from the Showa Steel Works at Anshan, as bombs from B-29s, of the U.S.
Army 20th Bomber Command, seek out their target on the
debut raid of the Superfortresses on July 29. Anshan is Manchuria’s
largest industrial city, 60 miles from Mukden.
Credit: USAAF photo from ACME |
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77.09.3133.a |
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77.09.3143 |
New York Bureau
Comfory Coiffures for Combat
South Pacific – It looks like these coast guardsmen are going to put
on their own Easter show out in the South Pacific. They have adopted
these novel (if somewhat abbreviated!) hair styles for comfort during
combat in the steaming tropics. The gent at the left with the
“openwork” teeth says it with a smile, while his buddy (right), does a
“maiden swoon” profile for the ladies, with a “scalp-lock hairdo”. |
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