Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 92
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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12-28-43 |
77.09.1683 |
TENSE MOMENT ON SHIPBOARD
This photo, taken aboard a transport carrying U.S. troops and Red
Cross girls to one of the battle fronts, was taken during a tense
moment during an attack by an enemy submarine. The U-boat was sunk or
driven off before it had a chance to do any damage.
Credit: Red Cross Photo from Acme |
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12-28-43 |
77.09.2559.a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
As Moroccans Prepared to Battle Germans
Italy – It has now been revealed that Mohammedan troops from French
Morocco have entered the Allied Fifth Army lines and are actively
engaging the Germans in the mountains northwest of Venafro, with
excellent results.
Before these troops moved into battle, and while they were encamped in
the plains to the rear of the Fifth Army lines, the Mohammedan
soldiers observed their Ait Kebir, or Great Feast, a solemn religious
ceremony which marks the arrival of the new year (it is now the year
1364 on their calendar.) With preparations for ballet under way,
uniforms were substituted for the usual colorful costumes, and the
usually violent tribal dancing was dispensed with. Instead one of the
solders performed a brief token dance.
In Morocco it is the custom during the feast that every married man
kill a sheep, which is then roasted whole and eaten with a sort of
bread cake made of coarsely ground wheat and streamed above a caldron
of boiling vegetable stew. In spite of wartime scarcity of the animals
in Italy, the soldiers had plenty on hand for the feast, getting them
in various mysterious ways about which officials were a bit vague when
asked.
In this series of photos, taken by Acme photographer Bert Brandt,
various parts of the Ait Kebir are shown. (Passed by Censors).
After the roast sheep and other food for the feast has been approved
by the regiment’s officers, this token dance was performed. Here,
(photo above) a soldier dressed in a bright costume of white belted in
red, does a dance while the troops beat time on their mess kits with
their knives. Another dancer, (not shown) is dressed in a sheep’s skin
with a sheep head mask. After the dances, officers place money in the
hats or mouth of dancers to show their appreciation, and the feast
goes on, with everyone “digging in” to the food.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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12-28-43 |
77.09.2560.a |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
As Moroccans Prepared to Battle Germans
Italy – It has now been revealed that Mohammedan troops from French
Morocco have entered the Allied Fifth Army lines and are actively
engaging the Germans in the mountains northwest of Venafro, with
excellent results.
Before these troops moved into battle, and while they were encamped in
the plains to the rear of the Fifth Army lines, the Mohammedan
soldiers observed their Ait Kebir, or Great Feast, a solemn religious
ceremony which marks the arrival of the new year (it is now the year
1364 on their calendar.) With preparations for ballet under way,
uniforms were substituted for the usual colorful costumes, and the
usually violent tribal dancing was dispensed with. Instead one of the
solders performed a brief token dance.
In Morocco it is the custom during the feast that every married man
kill a sheep, which is then roasted whole and eaten with a sort of
bread cake made of coarsely ground wheat and streamed above a caldron
of boiling vegetable stew. In spite of wartime scarcity of the animals
in Italy, the soldiers had plenty on hand for the feast, getting them
in various mysterious ways about which officials were a bit vague when
asked.
In this series of photos, taken by Acme photographer Bert Brandt,
various parts of the Ait Kebir are shown. (Passed by Censors).
Major Jacques Allard, (left), Commandant of the French Regiment, puts
his “seal of approval” on the feast by tasting a bit from one of the
roasted sheep.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool |
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12-28-43 |
77.09.2570 |
Radiophoto
Washington Bureau
Bombers Protect U.S. Troops Landing on Arawe
Covered by B-25s of the U.S. Fifth Air Force, a group of landing craft
head for beach at Arawe, New Britain, on southwestern coast. Landing
was made and beachheads established in drive to clear the island of
Japanese.
Credit: ACME photo by Tom Shafer for War Pool |
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12-28-43 |
77.09.2655 |
Radiotelephoto
New York Bureau
Yanks Wreck Cape Gloucester Field
This photo, flashed to the United States by radiotelephoto, shows
bombs from U.S. B-24 Liberator and B-25 Mitchell Bombers, exploding on
the Jap airfield at Cape Gloucester. The field is shown pitted with
shell craters from almost daily bombing by Allied planes since Dec. 1st.
In upper right, bombs burst on Nip planes which were trapped on the
ground. These raids were in preparation for landings by American
Marines who, it was announced today, had made their second landing in
the Cape Gloucester area.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME |
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12-28-43 |
77.09.2829 |
Enemy Inning
Guadalcanal, S.I. - - Jap bombers provided this sobering welcome for a
U.S. Navy warship sailing into port at Guadalcanal. Flames still burn
brightly from hits registered by the enemy who left a short while
before the ship entered the port. Gun crews aboard ship stand by at
their posts, ready to greet the - - - Japanese, when and if they
return.
Credit (U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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12-28-43 |
77.09.2830 |
New York Bureau
Shelter for Wounded
Arawe, N.B. – An American soldier, wounded in the invasion of New
Britain, is lowered on a stretcher into a Japanese dougout for
protection against the possible return of Nipponese planes.
Credit (ACME) |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.148 |
New York Bureau
Wounded in Battle
Arawe, New Britain – Wounded in the fighting at Arawe, a
stretcher-borne Yank is carried through the shallow water on the
island’s shore. A group of Yanks work on the littered beach at right.
Latest reports from New Britain indicate that our troops have pushed
to within striking distance of the Cape Gloucester airstrips, 50 miles
southeast of Arawe
Credit: -WP-(Photo by Thomas L. Shafer, ACME Correspondent for War
Pool) |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.1311 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
WOUNDED NURSE CARRIES ON
AT A FIELD HOSPITAL SOMEWHERE IN ITALY—Lt. Cordelia E. Cooks, first
Army nurse in Italy to be wounded by enemy fire, sustaining a shrapnel
wound, refuses to take time out to recover. With her arm bandaged she
attends a patient, Pfc. Joseph Uhrin, Latrobe, Pa., member of a field
artillery unit on the day after she received her wound. Lt. Cooks is
from Ft. Thomas, Kentucky.
Credit: Signal Corps photo from Acme |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.1439 |
New York Bureau
Soup-Strainer and Beaver de Luxe
Oakland, Calif.—The Italian Army with its General “Electric Whiskers”
has nothing on the U.S. Marine Corps which boasts its own Gunnery Sgt.
Carl Otto Ostrom, just returned from the South Pacific and somewhat
irked that he had no chance to tangle with the Japs, a leatherneck
since 1917 and veteran of World War I, and having seen service in
China, Guam, Guadalcanal, and numerous other places, Ostrom is resting
at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif., with a slight case of
“feeling worn out.” Born at Cambridge, Mass., 47 years ago, he calls
his home the Marine Corps.
Credit: Official Marine Corps photo, ACME. |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.1443 |
New York Bureau
Christmas at the Front
Italy—Between rounds in the hills above San Vittore, this American gun
crew with the Fifth Army snatches a moment to celebrate Christmas.
Clustered around a tiny tree set up behind their barking cannon, the
boys drink a toast from their canteens and exchange good wishes.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto-ACME. |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.2556 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
One for the Nips
South Pacific – Smoke pours from the blistered stern of an Allied LST
(Landing Ship-Tanks), after a Japanese plane scored a hit during an
attack on a South Pacific island in the combat zone where the LST was
unloading its cargo. A sister ship (right background) stands by as its
crew plays a stream of water on the burning vessel.
Credit: U.S. Marines Corps photo from ACME |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.2557 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Wounded Aussie Comes Back
Satelberg, New Guinea – Slung over the shoulder of one of his buddies,
a wounded Australian fighting man is carried back from the front
lines. The rescuer passes a tank that continues in the attack on
Satelberg.
Credit: ACME |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.4042.a-b |
New York Bureau
The End of Romance
Algiers -- Lt. Russell Brickell, of Fort Worth, Texas, signs his name
to the ever-expanding roster of the Algiers chapter of the “Brush-Off
Club” as charter member Capt. Howard Hammersley Jr. literally brushes
his buddy off. Membership is open only to those overseas fighters who
lady loves have ditched them. Capt. Hammersley hails from Roanoke,
Virginia.
Credit: ACME photo by Charles Seawood for War Pool |
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12-29-43 |
77.09.4043.a |
New York Bureau
Warm Clothes for Cold Trip
Somewhere in Alaska -- Ready to tour Alaskan and Aleutian bases to put
on exhibition games for our boys up there, these major league diamond
stars get outfitted with heavy, warm clothing for their cold trip.
Kneeling, Lt. Arthur Tober (left) of Bridgeport, Connecticut, adjusts
a parka on Fred “Dixie” Walker, while Sgt. John A. Theoboldt of
Monterey, California, fits a pair of shoepacks to Hank Borowy. Left to
right, the baseball players are Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cards;
Dixie Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers; Frankie Frisch, manager of the
Pittsburgh Pirates; Danny Ditwhiler of the Cards; and Hank Borowy of
the New York Yankees.
Credit: ACME |
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12-30-43 |
77.09.1242 |
Radiophoto
NEW RIVER, N.C. - Platoon Sgt. K.L. Smith, (right), USMC, of
Cumberland, MD, explains the mechanism of a Browning Heavy Machine Gun
to the four Biaggi sisters of Gardnerville, Nev., who are taking a
six-weeks Basic Training Course at the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
“Boot” Camp at Camp Lejeune, New River N.C. The girls (left to right)
are: Delphane, Flora, Muriel, and Ida.
Credit: Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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12-30-43 |
77.09.1563 |
New York Bureau
On the Winter Line
Artillery shells and mortar turn this Italian battlefield into a
smoking inferno as American fighters push steadily ahead, determined
to pierce Germany’s winter line of defense. Latest reports from the
Italian front indicate that fighting is still fierce in the northern
sector as French Moroccan troops bout the Nazis from the mountainous
country.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent. |
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12-30-43 |
77.09.2648 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Blockade Runner Ablaze
Bay of Biscay – Attacked and sent to the bottom by aircraft of the
British Coastal Command, this fast Nazi Blockade Runner was believed
to have been nearing the end of its long journey from Japan when it
was spotted. British Airmen also sunk three of a force of eleven enemy
Destroyers in the battle. Photo radioed to New York from London today
(12-30-43).
Credit: ACME Radiophoto |
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12-30-43 |
77.09.2649 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Direct Hit on Nazi Vessel
Bay of Biscay – Spotted by American Navy Airmen and sent to the bottom
by aircraft of the British Coastal Command, this Nazi Blockade Runner
is shown as it suffered a direct hit in the Bay of Biscay. Three of a
force of eleven enemy Destroyers accompanied the ship to Davey Jones
Locker in the same battle on December 28th. Photo radioed
to New York from London today (Dec. 30th).
Credit: ACME Radiophoto |
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12-30-43 |
77.09.2650.a |
New York Bureau
Hero Carries On
Vella Lavella, S. I. – Pharmacist’s Mate 2/c Rex H. Gregor, 21, of
Rochester, Minn. (left), recently performed one of the most heroic
acts of the war when he climbed aboard a blazing Landing Barge on
which ignited ammunition was exploding, helped remove the wounded and
then performed a leg amputation on one of the casualties – although
Gregor had never seen such an operation. The action occurred during a
Japanese air raid on Marine forces on Vella Lavella, in the Central
Solomons. Here, Gregor bandages the wrist of Cpl. Kenneth A. McIntyre,
USMC, of Minneapolis, Minn., who also helped rescue wounded from the
blazing barge. Note sign over tent, (top right), reading, “Kendall’s
Butcher Shop.”
Credit: Official Marine Corps photo from ACME |
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12-30-43 |
77.09.3027 |
New York Bureau
But It’s Still Home
Russia – They may find their homes reduced to a mound of bomb rubble,
but these Russians walk with eager steps toward their town which was
liberated by the Red Army on the Bryansk Front. The sound of the
approaching Russian Army is a signal for Soviet civilians to crawl out
of their huts and caves and return to their home towns which usually
have been systematically destroyed by the Germans.
Credit: ACME |
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12-30-43 |
77.09.3028 |
New York Bureau
Nazis on the Run
Somewhere in the U.S.S.R. – Retreating, on the double, through a
Russian town in the Kiev sector, these Nazi soldiers watch the village
burn as they walk past. The entire town was systematically destroyed
by the beaten Germans. Photo was radioed to London from a neutral
source.
Credit: ACME |
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12-31-43 |
77.09.1447 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Assisting Wounded Commander
Ortona, Italy—A tank commander, who was shot when he opened a turret
to check firing results, is led to a dressing station by a medical
attendant. The two men walk through the littered streets of battleworn
Ortona, which fell to troops of the British Eighth Army after eight
days of fighting.
Credit: OWI radiophoto from ACME. |
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12-31-43 |
77.09.1488 |
New York Bureau
Heading for Gelsenkirchen
SOMEWHERE OVER GERMANY—Despite a badly shot up left wing, this flying
fortress maintained its place in the formation on the way to bomb
Gelsenkirchen, Germany, a vital communications center. This was one of
several raids on Gelsenkirchen, which lies 27 miles west of Portmund,
on the Duisburg-Hamm Railway.
Credit: U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES PHOTO from ACME. |
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12-31-43 |
77.09.2551 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Back from Makin
Just off Makin Island, U.S. Coast Guardsmen carefully transfer wounded
Marines from a landing barge to a Navy plane which will speed them to
hospital bases located in safer territory. A first aid station was set
aboard a Coast Guard transport which operated as a unit in the Navy
Task Force.
Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo from ACME |
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