Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 87
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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12-2-43 |
77.09.1973 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Tramping Through the Mountains
SOMEWHERE IN ITALY -- Moving up on the Italian front, a patrol of
British infantrymen march on a mountain road north of Rionero. Photo
radioed to New York today (Dec. 2nd) from Allied head quarters in
Africa.
Credit (British Army Photo via OWI from ACME) |
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12-2-43 |
77.09.1974 |
New York Bureau
Shine Mister?
ITALY -- A pair of American GI boots slog along on "the road to Rome,"
where a careless step leads to a mud bath. A gooey mess is one way to
describe the Fifth Army front near Venafro, and our offensive suffers.
Credit (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent) |
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12-2-43 |
77.09.1975 |
New York Bureau
Alert Gunmen
SOMEWHERE IN ITALY -- Part of the Eighth Army's firing line on the
Italian front, these British gunners lie flat on their bellies on a
rocky knoll, keeping their eyes peeled for enemy action. Photo radioed
to New York today (Dec. 2nd) from Algiers.
Credit (British Army Photo Via OWI from Acme) |
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12-02-43 |
77.09.2801 |
New York Bureau
Jap Transport Hit by “Flying Bertha”
A Japanese freighter-transport burns fiercely after being raked with
75 mm, shellfire from a U.S. “Flying Bertha” – B-25 Mitchell bomber
mounting a 75 mm. Gun – near the powerful Jap base at Wewak in the
Southwest Pacific. The Fifth U.S. Air Force has just announced that
it has been using Mitchells mounting the heavy cannon for some time.
Credit Line (U.S. Signal Corps radio telephoto from ACME) |
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12-2-43 |
77.09.3957 |
Chicago Bureau
Largest Glider Tested
Minneapolis, Minn.—Largest glider ship ever built for Army Air Forces
ready for its first test flight at Wold-Chamberlain Field,
Minneapolis, Minn. Lt. Col. Bruce B. Price of Wright Field was at the
controls of the giant craft with Capt. Ben West as co-pilot. The new
ship, under construction since Sept. 24 at the Midway Plant of the
Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation, has a load capacity greater
than a two-motor Douglas Plane of the type used by commercial lines,
factory representative said.
Credit: ACME. |
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12-2-43 |
77.09.4013.a-b |
New York Bureau
AWARDED CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
1st. Lieut. David C. Waybur, Piedmont, Calif., wearing the
Congressional Medal of Honor awarded him for heroism under enemy fire.
After three of his men were hit and himself seriously injured by enemy
fire, Lt. Waybur, commanding a reconnaissance platoon, engaged four
enemy tanks, personally accounting for one of them, and dispersing the
remainder. The youthful appearing officer beat the tank by wiping out
the vehicle’s crew with his .45 caliber Thompson machine gun.
Credit (Signal Corps Radio-Telephoto from ACME) |
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12-3-43 |
77.09.26 |
New York Bureau
Magazine Bites the Mud
Somewhere in Italy – “Butterfingers” don’t go on the Italian front
these days because anything dropped in the mud that covers the
countryside is ruined. Red Cross worker Nancy Gres of Narberth, Pa.,
stoops to pick up a mud-covered magazine dropped as she was making the
rounds of an evacuation hospital with books, cigarettes and magazines.
Credit: (Photo by Bert Brandt, ACME Correspondent for War Picture
Pool) |
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12-3-43 |
77.09.1464 |
New York Bureau
“Excellent Bombing”
LANCIANO, ITALY – Allied bombardiers won another round of praise after
their recent bombing of roads and enemy-defended positions on the
Sangro River front. The marksmanship behind the bomb bursts shown
here, at Lanciano, won a report of “excellent bombing” from the Eighth
Army. Photo radioed to New York from Algiers.
Credit Line (ACME Radiophoto) |
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12-3-43 |
77.09.2690 |
San Francisco Bureau
Air, Sea Assault Spearheads Yank Invasion of Makin
MAKIN, G.I.—In one of the first Makin Island action pictures to reach
the United States, American planes come in low over their own invasion
craft to strafe Japanese machine gun nests on the enemy-held Gilbert
base. This photo was made as the first wave of our assault troops
moved in on the Japs on November 21.
Credit; ACME |
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12-4-43 |
77.09.1003 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
FAMOUS FATHER MEETS FIGHTING SON
NORTH AFRICA – As he returns an RAF officer’s salute, President
Roosevelt has eyes only for his son, Col. Elliot Roosevelt, (left)
Commanding Officer of a reconnaissance unit, who greets the American
Chief Executive at an airfield in North Africa. Driver of the
Presidential jeep is Cpl. Arthur S. Rice, of Greensburg, MO who also
had Gen. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz as passengers. The RAF
officer is Wing Comdr. Eric L. Fuller, Deputy Commander of a photo
unit.
Credit: Signal Corps photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME |
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12-4-43 |
77.09.1471 |
New York Bureau
Rolling to Rome
ITALY – Sherman tanks and carriers move up as mortar fire explodes in
the Sangro River bed where the British 8th Army has knifed
through to secondary German defenses. As the Americans stubbornly beat
back the enemy in the western part of Italy, the English are doing an
equally brilliant job of crushing the Nazis on the Adriatic flank.
Credit (OWI Radiophoto from ACME) |
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12-04-43 |
77.09.3424 |
New York Bureau
Ready For Trouble
Beirut, Lebanon: French troops of the French committee of National
liberation easily handle, as shown here, demonstrators who had
assembled in protest against the arrest of the President, Premier,
some Ministers and some members of the Chamber. Officials were
arrested due to their vote of immediate freedom from French mandate.
Since day of arrest, November 11th, French released them to
resolve the crisis.
Credit line (ACME) |
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12-4-43 |
77.09.4361a |
New York Bureau
Heil! Heil! The Gang’s All Here!
Paris –The Germans probably meant this photo, received through neutral
sources, as a neat little piece of propaganda, showing the leader of
the French Popular Party taking a triumphal ride through the streets
of Paris. However, the camera tells the truth as the French citizens
greet the “leader” with the upraised hand salute of racism.
Credit: ACME |
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12-5-43 |
77.09.1343 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
DECORATIVE TOUCH
ITALY—A vast improvement is effected in the weird statuary of the
royal gardens of Caserta, italy, by seven sightseeing WACS who are
(left to right) Pvt. Jeanne Zientek, of Buffalo, N.Y.; Pvt. Jerry
Horne, Lucedale, Miss; Pvt. Betty Hoefler, of Buffalo, N.Y.; Pvt.
Laura Howleson, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Pvt. Zanaida Johnson, of New York
City; Pvt. Rena Hicks, of Louisville, Ky., and Pvt. Ruby Hale, of
Wharton, Tex.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent |
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12-5-43 |
77.09.1469 |
New York Bureau
Corvette Versus Sub
IN THE ATLANTIC – When a British corvette tangles with a Nazi sub, it
usually means plenty of customers for Davey Jones – and, more often
than not, the boys in the “locker” are wearing Nazi uniforms. This
sub, meeting the corvette HMS Starwort in the Atlantic, was brought to
the top by depth charges. In upper photo, the crew lines the deck of
the undersea fighter. In lower photo, Nazi sailors dive from the
sinking sub to be picked up by the enemy vessel.
Credit Line – WP—(ACME) |
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12-5-43 |
77.09.1472 |
New York Bureau
Gosh!
ITALY -- …is all that Sgt. Frank Friel, of Portland, Me., can say as
pretty WAC Pvt. Rena Hicks, of Louisville, Ky., favors him as an
escort for a drive in a picturesque carriage around Caserta, Italy.
Credit (ACME Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent) |
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12/5/43 |
77.09.2692 |
New York Bureau
A Yank Leaves Makin
MAKIN—Flying enemy shrapnel found the eyes of this U.S. Army private,
who wears bandages as he leaves Makin Island. Two medical corpsmen
assist the Yank, who helped our forces gain possession of the central
Pacific atoll, to board a transport.
Credit: ACME |
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12-5-43 |
77.09.2693 |
Army Bombers Raid Nauru
NAURU—As Yank forces battled for possession of Gilbert Island bases,
our airmen winged over Jap-held Nauru Island, carrying out our new
offensive in the central Pacific. Here, an American Liberator flies
above Nauru in the raid of November 21st.
Credit: USAAF photo—ACME |
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12-6-43 |
77.09.178 |
New York Bureau
We Nab 20 Jap Warships
While smaller ships scuttle, beetle-like for the open sea, flames rise
from what appears to be a Jap cruiser (right) and black smoke and fire
billow from another ship, during one of November 5th or November 11th
raids on Rabaul Harbor. Carrier-based planes staged the surprise
attacks, sinking and damaging over 20 Jap warships.
Credit (Official U.S. Navy Photo From ACME) |
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12-6-43 |
77.09.2691 |
New York Bureau
One Less Ship to Go
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A direct hit amidship rock a Jap heavy cruiser, as
U.S. Navy dive-bombers and torpedo planes smash the enemy base at
Rabaul Harbor. In two raids on the big Japanese island base, November
5th and November 11th, our Navy planes sank or
damaged over 20 warships.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME |
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12-7-43 |
77.09.1249 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
What’s in a Breed? ENGLAND – Although his breed is uncertain, this
spunky terrier is chock full of the stuff that heroes are make of.
Called “Salvo” by the Airmen for whom he is a mascot, the dog goes on
operational flights and makes parachute jumps whenever his masters
take to the silk. Landing after a jump, Salvo plants his feet firmly
on the ground, to resist the pull of his billowing chute, until
someone comes along to unharness him.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps photo from ACME |
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12-7-43 |
77.09.2694 |
New York Bureau
Gotcha!
The direct hit of a 1000-pound bomb blasts this 8000-ton Jap transport
to smithereens. Lt. Don Scurlock of Butler, Alabama, one of the U.S.
Fifth Air Force’s crack bombardiers, is credited with this bombing,
off the coast of Kavieng, New Britain Island, on November 21st.
This is an original of the radiophoto sent recently from the southwest
Pacific.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME |
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12-8-43 |
77.09.1976 |
New York Bureau
There's Nothing an MP Can't Do
ITALY -- Pfc Hyman Huberman, left, and Pfc Sidney Berchofsky, right,
both of Brooklyn, N.Y., members of an MP battalion stationed in Italy,
look on as this Italian mother feeds the baby they brought into the
world in air-raid shelter in Naples.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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12-8-43 |
77.09.1977 |
New York Bureau
The Roaring Volturno
ITALY – High, rushing waters of the Volturno River, swollen by recent
heavy rains, churn around pontoons of bridge set up by U.S. Army
Engineers. Flood waters had wrecked a least one pontoon bridge. Pvt.
Edwin Reidler, Reading, Pa., is giving the high sign to traffic. Note
heavy ropes which keep pontoons in place.
Credit Line – WP – (ACME) |
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12-8-43 |
77.09.2641 |
New York Bureau
Fighter Plane Breaks in Two
Somewhere in the Pacific – Lt. Charles L. Mountenot, of Edgewater,
N.J., tried to land his fighter plane on this carrier, with his
hydraulic system shot up and with one wheel facing the wrong way. The
plane snapped in two when it was caught by the hook. Mountenot had
been at Tarawa the day before the Marines landed there.
Credit: ACME |
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