Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 90
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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12/17/43 |
77.09.1281 |
New York Bureau
Her Majesty the Queen
MAKIN ISLAND – Queen Tabonou, of the Gilbertese Natives, gets a light
for her cigarette from Lt. Bruno Raymond, Royal Australian Naval
Volunteer Reserves, who was born in the central Pacific islands. The
Queen hadn’t seen Raymond since he was a baby. He “Visited his home
town” after the allies captured Makin.
Credit: ACME |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.2369 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
ITALIAN INFANTRYMEN
MONT LUNGO, ITALY—Crouching in firing positions behind the rocks that
dot Mount Lungo, these Italian infantrymen are battling the Axis,
fighting side by side with Americans and Britons of the Fifth Army.
Photo radioed to New York today (Dec. 17th) from Algiers.
Credit: Acme radiophoto |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.2682 |
New York Bureau
Reunion on Makin
Makin, Gilbert Islands – After nine years of separation, Lt. Bruno
Raymond, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve, meets his father,
Moritz (left), and his half-native mother, Maria, after going ashore
on newly-captured Makin Island. Lt. Raymond, who is attached to the
U.S. Navy as a pilot, was born in the Gilbert Islands. His parents
lived on Makin all during the Jap period of occupation.
Credit: ACME |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.2728 |
New York Bureau
Famine In India
By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 persons had died of starvation in
India and, although the British Government reportedly has the
situation under control, that number will undoubtedly be raised before
the final, tragic count is taken. Just released, these startling
pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of India’s famine in late
October when a homeless army of 100,000 roamed the city, dying in the
streets.
Sacred cows and dusky-skinned human beings rummage in the same
Calcutta garbage pile for scraps of food. Even when death from
starvation seems a certainty, no Indian would ever think of touching
the Holy Meat.
Credit: ACME |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.2729 |
New York Bureau
Famine in India
By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 persons had died of starvation in
India and, although the British Government reportedly has the
situation under control, that number will undoubtedly be raised before
the final, tragic count is taken. Just released, these startling
pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of India’s famine in late
October when a homeless army of 100,000 roamed the city, dying in the
streets.
A triple line of starving Indians drags toward a “soup kitchen” in
Calcutta. Often, natives fell dead before reaching the food.
Credit: ACME |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.2730.a |
Famine in India
By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 persons had died of starvation in
India and, although the British government reportedly has the
situation under control, that number will undoubtedly be raised before
the final, tragic count is taken. Just released, these startling
pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of India’s famine in late
October when a homeless army of 100,000 roamed the city, dying in the
streets.
New York Bureau
A young Indian mother covers the body of her baby who has just drawn a
last weak breath. Now the homeless woman must wait for the corpse
removal squad that picks up the bodies of children who starved to
death.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.3194.a |
Famine in India
By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 persons had died of starvation in
India and, although the British government reportedly has the
situation under control that number will undoubtedly be raised before
the final, tragic count is taken. Just released, these startling
pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of India’s famine in late
October when a homeless army of 100,000 roamed the city, dying in the
streets.
New York Bureau
Regular corpse removal squads were on call in the streets of
Calcutta. This wagon bears the letters A.R.P., but death in India
came not from the skies but from within. Often, the shriveled dead
had to wait for hours to be removed from the street, checked in at the
police station, then taken to the ghats for burning.
Credit line (ACME) |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.3195 |
Famine in India
By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 persons had died of starvation in
India and, although the British government reportedly has the
situation under control that number will undoubtedly be raised before
the final, tragic count is taken. Just released, these startling
pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of India’s famine in late
October when a homeless army of 100,000 roamed the city, dying in the
streets.
New York Bureau
It doesn’t take long for word to get around that grain is spilling
from these sacks on a wagon parked in Calcutta. Children, who dare
not rip open the bags, grub in the dirt for kernels that sift down.
Credit line (ACME) |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.3196.a |
By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 persons had died of starvation in
India and, although the British government reportedly has the
situation under control that number will undoubtedly be raised before
the final, tragic count is taken. Just released, these startling
pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of India’s famine in late
October when a homeless army of 100,000 roamed the city, dying in the
streets.
New York Bureau
Squalid eating conditions mean nothing to India’s starving who stuff
the free cereal in their mouths with their hands. The food won’t be
enough to bring their deformed bodies back to normalcy.
Credit line (ACME) |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.3881a |
New York Bureau
Back on American Soil
New York City – Commander Wallace L. Rinehart of St. Louis, Mo.;
Commander of the 54th U.S. Navy Construction Battalion,
leads a gang of jubilant Seabees down the gangplank of a Navy
Transport to set foot on American soil for the first time in ten
months. With an excellent record of service in the Mediterranean
behind them, the Seabees returned to the States today (Dec. 17th).
The boys went directly to Camp Endicott, R.I., where every CB man will
be granted Christmas leave.
Credit: ACME |
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12-17-43 |
77.09.3882a |
New York Bureau
Ten-Month Growth
New York City – Returning to the States for the first time in ten
months, Carpenter’s Mate Milbert F. Baker brought a thick beard back
with him. Carpenter’s Mate 3/c Edgar A. Dollar of Vancouver, Wash.,
combs the face foliage of his Salem, Ore., buddy, as the two arrive in
New York with the 54th Naval Construction Battalion.
Credit: ACME |
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12-18-43 |
77.09.2327 |
FREE FRENCH FIGHT AGAIN
SOMEWHERE IN ITALY—Rolling past the shattered wreck that was once a
house, free French warriors of the Second Morocco Division speed
through a war-torn Italian town on their way to the front lines. The
Frenchmen are fighting, again, in Europe, for the first time since the
capitulation of France in 1940, equipped with modern American weapons
and clothing. |
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12-18-43 |
77.09.2415 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
INVADERS WADE ASHORE
ARAWE, NEW BRITAIN—Streaming from their landing barge, American troops
wade through the shallow waters off the shore of Arawe to complete the
Allied invasion of New Britain. Although the invaders were bombed and
strafed by the enemy as t hey landed, casualties were extremely light.
Credit: Photo by Tom Shafer, Acme photographer for War Picture Pool |
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12-18-43 |
77.09.2416 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
YANKS LAND ON
NEW BRITAIN
ARAWE, NEW BRITAIN—As their LCV skims over Pacific waters toward the
shore of Arawe, Yanks anxiously scan the skies, watching the approach
of enemy planes. Invading New Britain under heavy bombing and staffing
from Japanese planes, our troops escaped with light casualties, losing
only two LCV’s in the important operation.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radio from Acme |
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12-18-43 |
77.09.2417 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
JAP PLANES COULDN’T STOP ‘EM
ARAWE, NEW BRITAIN—Winging through New Britain skies, a Jap plane
pulls out of its bombing and strafing dive on American invasion craft,
heading for the shores of New Britain. The enemy tried, in vain, to
halt the advance of our troops, who escaped with the loss of only two
LCV’s when they landed at Arawe.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto from Acme |
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12-18-43 |
77.09.2418 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
JUNGLE ADVANCE
NEW BRITAIN ISLAND—Their eyes glued to their sun sights, trigger
fingers ready to go into action at a moment’s notice, these Yanks move
stealthily through the thick foliage that covers New Britain Island.
Taking all precautions to protect themselves as well as other troops,
the American boys advance soon after their landing at Arawe.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto from Acme |
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12-18-43 |
77.09.2731 |
Bombs Fall on the Invaders
Arawe, New Britain
Clouds of thick, black smoke rise from the water as Japanese planes
bomb and strafe American landing craft during the yank invasion of New
Britain, at Arawe. Miraculously, no ships were hit during the
bombing. Only two LCV’s were lost in the entire operation.
Credit (U.S. Signal Corps Telephoto - ACME) |
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12-18-43 |
77.09.3193 |
New York Bureau
Out to Get What’s Left
Makin Island – Out to get what’s left of the Jap force pushed back to
one end of Makin Atoll, a column of American fighters tramps around a
lagoon in which a Japanese seaplane is partially submerged after
strafing by Yank planes. In the right foreground are stacks of Jap
fuel barrels.
Credit (U.S. Coast Guard photo from ACME) |
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12-19-43 |
77.09.75 |
New York Bureau
Prayer for Lost Comrades
Italy – Close to the graves they tend, Allied Fifth Army soldiers bow
their heads in prayers led by Capt. Christ A. Lehne, Chaplain of
Fredericksburg, Texas. In the background, other service men erect
crosses and tidy the final resting places of Americans who died in
battle.
Credit: (ACME) |
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12-19-43 |
77.09.272 |
New York Bureau
Entertainment Courtesy A. Hitler
MIGNANO, ITALY -- A German radio, found on a battlefield, provides
entertainment for these American soldiers as they "bivouac" in an old
wine cellar (minus the wine) in Mignano, after their battle for the
Italian town. At the switchboard is Pfc. Howard L. Saddler of Canton,
Ohio. Pvt. Theodore Zembuiski of Albany, NY, lounges in background,
while (left to right) Pvt. Thomas G. Cross of Buffalo Gap, Texas, and
Pfc. Norman S. Roy of Baltimore, MD., lie in foreground.
Credit: (ACME) |
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12-19-43 |
77.09.1713 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
RAILROAD BED BECOMES HIGHWAY
SOMEWHERE IN ITALY—Their few possessions strapped to the backs of
mules, Italian civilians lead the beasts along a railroad bed that now
serves as a highway. Wrecked by the Germans, the rocky road bed was
converted to a highway by the Allies as they made their way north, in
pursuit of the Germans.
Credit: Acme |
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12-20-43 |
77.09.1479 |
In the Nick of Time
New York Bureau
BERLIN—Berliners had the right idea when they decided to remove the
exhibits form the Zifghaus (Army Museum) last Wednesday because allied
bombings hit the structure the next night. Here young boys remove one
of the old suits of armour on a stretcher.
Credit: ACME Radiophoto from Stockholm. |
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12-20-43 |
77.09.1736 |
RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
INDIAN TROOPS FIGHT WITH 8TH ARMY
ITALY—An Indian Bren gunner, (second from left), gives covering fire,
as Indian and British troops of the 8th Army advance on the
Italian Front. At the time this photo was taken, the town and this
emplacement were under heavy German mortar fire. This photo flashed to
New York by radio from Algiers, today.
Credit: OWI Radiophoto from Acme |
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12-20-43 |
77.09.2526 |
New York Bureau
THOROUGH SABOTAGE
COPENHAGEN—Here is one of the very few pictures showing sabotage in
occupied territory that has been permitted to go through Nazi
censorship to Sweden. Workmen are clearing away ruins on a Copenhagen
water tower that was blown up by saboteurs on Wednesday at 4 AM. They
seem to have done a very thorough job. Photo radioed from Stockholm
today.
Credit Line (ACME Radiophoto) |
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12-20-43 |
77.09.2527 |
New York Bureau
NO “TIN HAT” FOR THIS SOLDIER
ITALY—Cpl. Chain Singh (CQ), a Sikh Bren Gunner in action on the
British 8th Army Front, wears no helmet but only his
customary turban. The Sikhs are the only soldiers of India fighting
with the Allies, who are permitted to dispense with steel head
covering.
(OWI Radiophoto from ACME) |
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