Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 85
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.2512 |
ALLIED GAS TRUCK HIT BY NAZIS
WITH THE 5TH ARMY IN ITALY—An Allied truck loaded with cans
of gasoline burns fiercely after being strafed by German planes
“somewhere on the Italian Front.” Enemy air attacks in this sector
were extremely heavy when this photo was taken.
Credit Line (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool) |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.2513 |
New York Bureau
THE WAR PASSED, HERE
WITH THE 5TH ARMY IN ITALY—All the grass was seared from
this hillside, and only gaunt, shattered stubs remain of the trees
that once shaded the spot, after bitter warfare had passed over and
beyond this sector of the Italian Front. A soldier gathers firewood
among the shattered stumps.
Credit Line (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool) |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.2514 |
New York Bureau
G.I. FASHION PLATE
WITH THE 5TH ARMY IN ITALY—Pfc. Thomas Patrick, of Hilton,
Okla., tries on a warm G.I. winter overcoat, which will become an
indispensable part of his equipment during the cold Italian winter
ahead. Behind him (in photo) are bales of coats, warm gloves, winter
underwear, etc., being passed out to Americans on the 5th
Army front in Italy.
Credit Line (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool) |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.2515 |
New York Bureau
“WATTLE I DO?”
ITALY—Master Sgt. Harold F. Koehn, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has the axe
ready to give the blow fatale to the turkey held high in his left
hand….Post mortem decision of an Air Force group, which had bought the
bird near Naples, will be that a cheerful Thanksgiving dinner was had
by all.
Credit Line (ACME Photo by Charles Seawood for the War Picture Pool
via Army Radiotelephoto) |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.2516 |
New York Bureau
MUD SLOWS UP ADVANCE IN ITALY
ITALY—A big British vehicle tows a lighter car through deep mud holes
in a sector on the Italian front. Steady rain has slowed up military
operations.
Credit (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool via Army
Radiotelephoto) |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.2859 |
New York Bureau
New Central Pacific Objective
Central Pacific – Marines and Army soldiers are putting up a terrific
battle for this tiny speck of an island in the Central Pacific, named
Tarawa. One of the Gilbert group, Tarawa is 25 miles South of Makin,
where another bloody battle is in progress.
Credit (U.S. Navy of official photo from ACME) |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.3388 |
New York Bureau
“A Phony Hero”
Newark, N.J. – No longer can Abe Levey, 28, of San Antonio, Texas,
boast about how he killed 62 Japs at Kiska and was personally
decorated by President Roosevelt, for the self-styled hero has been
jailed by the FBI as impersonating an officer. “A Phony Hero”, says
the FBI, speaking of Levey who was given a medical discharged from the
Army last Summer in Denver, Colo., where he so impressed a medical
officer that the reason for his release was listed as due to wounds
from the Kiska fighting. Actually, the “bayonet” soars were received
in childhood.
Credit line (ACME) |
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11-23-43 |
77.09.3500 |
Tarawa’s Capture Assured
Washington, D.C. - - This photo, released by the Navy department
today, shows the harbor at Tarawa in the Gilbert islands where, it was
announced today, U.S. Marines have consolidated their position and
their capture of the Atoll is “assured”. Also, it was stated that
U.S. Army troops of the 27th division had captured Makin,
in the same group.
Credit line (U.S. Navy official photo from ACME) |
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11-24-43 |
77.09.190 |
New York Bureau
Wounded on New Georgia
NEW GEORGIA ISLAND -- Exhausted, the lines in their faces revealing
the strain under which they've been fighting, these Yanks stop to rest
in a deserted Jap bivouac, from which the boys chased the enemy. Those
who escaped injury watch a Medical Corps officer treat an unidentified
wounded man. Watching, too, are Sgt. Morris Hain (extreme left), whose
arm is in a sling, and Cpl. Hollis Templeton, whose left shoulder is
bandaged.
Credit: (Signal Corps Photo from ACME) |
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11-24-43 |
77.09.1911 |
New York Bureau
Grim Job
PRATA, ITALY – To those who lived after the fleeing Germans blew up a
road block in Prata, fell the grim job of removing the bodies of those
killed in the explosion from the wreckage. Pvt. Dick Heusle of Mexia,
Texas, helps Italian civilians remove the body of a young woman from
the ruins.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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11-24-43 |
77.09.2831 |
New York Bureau
Smoking the Japs Out
New Georgia Island – Firmly entrenched in the jungles of New Georgia,
the Japs, had to be literally smoked and burned out of their
positions. Here, flame from a U.S. infantryman’s flame thrower sprays
a Jap pillbox during mopping-up operations.
Credit Line (U.S. Signal Corps photo from ACME) |
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11-24-43 |
77.09.4154a |
RADIO PHOTO
New York Bureau
LONDONERS DEMAND MOSLEY BE JAILED AGAIN
LONDON – Carrying anti-Mosley banners, a crowd of workers demonstrate
outside the parliament building in London, Nov. 23rd, in
protest against the liberation from prison of Sir Oswald Mosley,
British pre-war fascist leader. It is said that Mosley was released
because of ill health.
Credit: Acme |
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11-24-43 |
77.09.4155a |
RADIO PHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
HELPED BLITZ BERLIN
ENGLAND – After returning from pulverizing Berlin raid, the crew of
the bomber, “R for Robert,” ride to mess on an airfield somewhere in
England. The German capital city suffered hits third consecutive raid
last night. Sweden reports that at least 10,000 have been killed and
that thousands more are feeling the city.
Credit: Acme |
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11-25-43 |
77.09.2773 |
New York Bureau
Aircraft Carrier
Somewhere In Northwest Australia – Returning to its base in
Northwestern Australia on one motor, and making a belly landing, this
royal Australian Air Force Beaufighter completed a successful mission
in Timor. Now, riding atop an aircraft-carrier-on-wheels, the warbird
is heading for a repair shop for reconditioning. It will soon fight
from the skies again, with the Beaufighter Squadron that has rung up a
total of 60 destroyed enemy aircraft, 4 probables, and 61 damaged, in
the first ten months of 1943.
Credit Line – WP—(Photo by Thomas L. Shafer, ACME Correspondent for
War Picture Pool) |
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11-25-43 |
77.09.4033.a |
New York Bureau
Story of a Rescue
At Sea - This is the story of a rescue at sea - the story of a U.S.
Navy Catalina Patrol Bomber crew, forced down by mechanical trouble on
a flight out of a Panama base, who spent two days adrift before help
came. The photos were made by a member of the crew, Lt. (jg) F. J.
Whiteside, USNR, who recorded the experience with his camera, never
knowing whether or not he’d live to see the pictures.
Help comes at last! AOM Third Class O. H. Wells, his eyes glued to his
glasses, catches the wave of the pilot of a sister Patrol Plane as it
circles above the drifting survivors and swoops low to message “Help
Coming”. Soon a Tanker picked up the men and sank their ill-fated
plane.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.1237 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
INSIGNIA OF HEROES
Here is the new insignia of the U.S. 14th Air Force,
serving in China under Maj. General Claire L. Chennault. Designed by
S/Sgt. Howard M. Arnegard of Hillsboro, N.D., the patch shows a
winged, rampaging Bengal Tiger, topped by the star of the U.S.A.A.F.
The new insignia soared over Japan yesterday (Nov. 25th)
when American and Chinese bombers and fighters paid a destructive
visit to the Jap Airdrome at Shinchiku, on Formosa.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.1744 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
BAILING OUT
ITALY—Forming a helmet brigade, members of an anti-aircraft crew bail
out more than 18 inches of water that gathered in their gun
emplacement as torrents of rain descended upon them in Italy. Left to
right: Pfc. Woodrow Porter, of Dover, Tenn.; Pfc. Edward J. Zvonek of
Detroit, Mich.; and Pvt. George Cooper (in pit) of New Bedford, Mass.
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo from Acme |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.1745 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
NAZIS SCORE HIT ON ALLIED FUEL DUMP
ITALY—Black-edged fire billows from a Fifth Army fuel dump in Italy,
after an enemy raid near Aversa. As yet unexploded barrels of gasoline
await destruction by the roaring blaze.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from Acme |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.1753 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
ONE FOR THE NAZIS
ITALY—American Fifth Army troops work frantically to save barrels of
gas and oil from flaming destruction, after the Germans scored a hit
on al Allied fuel dump near Aversa, Italy. Flames in the background
are a source of danger to both the workers and the precious fuel they
roll to safety.
Credit: Acme Radiophoto |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.2605 |
New York Bureau
Dress Rehearsal
Somewhere in the Central Pacific – Splashing through the water and up
the beach as their landing craft nose up to the shore, American troops
practice amphibious landings somewhere in the Central Pacific. This
was a prelude to the invasion of the Gilbert Islands.
Credit: ACME |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.2606.a |
New York Bureau
Nick of Time
South Pacific – His engine blazing from a lucky Jap hit, an American
pilot brings down his Dive Bomber on the deck of a U.S. Aircraft
Carrier during the raid on Rabaul when we knocked 70 Nipponese planes
out of a flaming sky and sank 13 destroyers. Rather than bail out,
this pilot outwitted the pursuing enemy and managed to bring down his
plane.
Credit: ACME |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.2607.a |
New York Bureau
Yank Flat-Top Outwits Japs
South Pacific – With the deck of one U.S. Aircraft Carrier in the
foreground, another of our Flat-Tops maneuvers wildly to escape Jap
bombs while (left background) a Jap plane falls into the sea in
flames, during the spectacular U.S. attack on Rabaul when our
carrier-based planes shot down 70 Nip aircraft and sank and damaged
two Jap Cruisers and 13 Destroyers. With the sky raining bombs and
blazing Japanese planes, none of our ships were hit.
Credit: ACME |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.2863 |
Pay-off Day
At a South Pacific Base – Lucky Marines at this South Pacific base
don’t have any wash-day blues. Women of the island take care of the
laundry problem for a mere $2.50 per month, per Marine. And here’s
the payoff, Marine Gunner O.A. Powell settles his bill with 230 pound
Noa (left) acting as an interpreter and Platoon Sgt. James G. Hayes
(seated) of Donalsville, GA., supervising.
Credit (U.S. Marine Corps photo from ACME) |
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11-26-43 |
77.09.4282.a-b |
New York Bureau
BOMBS HOME OF “YELLOW NOSES”
TRIQUEVILLE, FRANCE—Like a huge, angry bird of prey, a Martin B-26
Marauder soars over the Nazi fighter base at Triqueville, France, the
home of some of Goerings’ famed “Yellow Nosed” fighter planes. Stick
after stick of 300-pound bombs drop from the medium bomber and its
fellow raiders, blasting hangars, buildings and dispersal areas of the
airfield.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces Photo from ACME) |
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11-27-43 |
77.09.1292 |
New York Bureau
One Vote For the Varga Miss
SOMEWHERE IN ITALY -- While the Varga Girl controversy rages back
home, a Yank in a foxhole opens his October issue of Esquire which has
just arrived, and turns immediately to the drawing of the luscious
lady. By his expression, PVT. Richard Oster of Greely, Colo., casts a
vote in the Varga girl’s favor. That happy smile, symbol of soaring
morale, ought to convince a deliberating post office board where its
decision should lie.
Credit:-- WP—(Photo by Bert Brandt ACME) |
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