Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection 
of World War II Photographs (continued)

Date      

Image #

Caption

12-31-43

77.09.2552

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
One of Few
Arawe, New Britain – One of the few rubber rafts left afloat after the landing at Arawe, New Britain, is pulled in by members of the crew of an LCT. Most of the rafts used in landing operations were sunk by Japanese machine gun fire.
Credit: ACME

12-31-43

77.09.2553

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Japs Bomb Arawe Invaders
Arawe, New Britain – Great geysers of black smoke and spray rise from the water around a group of LCT’s as Japanese bombs rain down upon the invaders at Arawe, New Britain. Photo was made at the height of the Allied invasion on that Jap stronghold.
Credit: ACME

12-31-43

77.09.2651

San Francisco Bureau
U.S. Bombs Hitting Marshall Islands in Regular Raids
Mille Atoll, M. I. – On the regular “milk run” pre-invasion air raids of later, American bombs have been – like here – hitting the air strip and camp area of Mille Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This closeup airview was made during a November raid by Yank fliers.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME

1-1-44

77.09.1481.a

New York Bureau
LAGONE, ITALY—Coming down from the hills in which they hid while war raged about their homes, these natives find a dead Nazi soldier in their path. Leading a mule laden with her belongings, her face distorted with hatred, an Italian woman carefully avoids fallen Nazi.
Credit: WP (ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent)

1-1-44

77.09.1483.a

New York Bureau
Return of the Natives
LAGONE, ITALY—An Italian boy helps his feeble grandmother along the rocky, rubble-strewn street that leads to their bomb-wrecked home, which was completely destroyed by the retreating Nazi forces.
Credit:  ACME photo by Bert Brandt, war picture pool correspondent.

1-1-44

77.09.1562

New York Bureau
Frenchwomen at the Front
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT -- Wearing clothing that isn’t much different than the togs sported by these women are ambulance drivers on the Fifth Army front in Italy. Both daughters of France, Naneu Calas (left) and Cecille Gedgeon stop to munch a chocolate bar in an Italian village. Photo radioed to New York January 1^st from Algiers.
Credit: OWI RADIOPHOTO FROM ACME.

1-1-44

77.09.1947.a

Return of the Natives
LAGONE, ITALY -- Scene of many days of bitter fighting, the tiny mountain town of Lagone fell to warriors of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth Army, and the smoke of battle had hardly cleared before hundreds of natives flocked down from the hills to return to their homes. The pathos of their tragic homecoming to the wrecked, blasted buildings is recorded in this series, made by Acme correspondent Bert Brandt, for the War Picture Pool. Non-combatants all these men, women and children find that war is a very personal experience nevertheless: an experience that has left them with a deep, grim hatred for the Germans.
New York Bureau
Members of her family carry an old woman down from the hills on a crude stretcher. The woman's face mirrors the agony that the bumpy journey caused her.
Credit - WP - (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent)

1-1-44

77.09.2221.a

Return of the Natives
LAGONE, ITALY – Scene of many days of bitter fighting, the tiny mountain town of LaGone fell to warriors of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth Army, and the smoke of battle hardly cleared before hundreds of natives flocked down from the hills to return to their homes. The pathos of their tragic homecoming to the wrecked, blasted building is recorded in this series, made by Acme correspondent Bert Brandt for the War Picture Pool. Non-combatants all these men, women and children find that war is a very personal experience nevertheless: an experience that has left them with a deep, grim hatred for the Germans.
New York Bureau
A tiny tot rides atop his father’s shoulders, and his mother walks with a cane as this family returns from the hills. At left is Lt. Harry McKinnon of Charlotte, N.C., who is in charge of a group of combat engineers.

1-1-44

77.09.2695

New York Bureau
Carrier Downs Jap Torpedo Plane
A billowing cloud of smoke marks the grave of a Japanese torpedo plane, brought down by the ack-ack fire of a U.S. Navy carrier. The vessel, of the 25,000-ton Essex class, was attacked by low-flying Jap torpedo planes, after the U.S. raid on the Marshalls on December 4, 1943.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from ACME

07-01.44

77.09.2767

New York Bureau
Yank Wounded on Saipan
Saipan- - Wounded Americans are brought to a captured Jap shack on Saipan which has been converted to an aid station.  Comrades gently carry the stricken soldiers on stretchers.  In taking half the Jap stronghold in the Marianas, American Marines and infantrymen have suffered 9,752 killed, wounded, and missing in action.
Credit (US Army radio telephoto from ACME)

01-01-44

77.09.2811

New York Bureau
Attack on Jap Cargo Ship
A Navy photo-reconnaissance plane returned to its base with this photo as evidence of its attack on a Jap cargo ship in the Marshall Island area.  Only 100 feet above the hull and carrying no bombs, the Liberator riddled the freighted with 50 caliber guns.  Note that the forward gun of the vessel is not manned, indicating that the plane caught the crew by surprise.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME)

1-3-44

77.09.1615

New York Bureau
They Sent the Death Blow
These five smiling torpedo men are members of the crew of the H.M.S. Jamaica, British Vessel that sent the final torpedo into the stricken Nazi battleship Scharnhorst, during the sea battle off the northern coast of Norway last week. Photo radioed to New York from London January 3, 1944.
Credit: ACME RADIOPHOTO.

1-3-44

77.09.1617

New York Bureau
Scharnhorst Survives
Just plucked out of the sea by the crew of H.M.S. Duke of York, these Nazi sailors (center, hatless) don’t look very mournful over the loss of their ship, the German battleship Scharnhorst. They are among the very few Nazi seaman who survived the shelling, torpedoing and sinking of the Vessel. Photo radioed to New York from London today, January 3, 1944.
Credit: ACME RADIOPHOTO.

1-3-44

77.09.2075.a

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
What’s Death to a Mule?
Ortona, ITALY – With nonchalance only a mule can muster, this Italian beast of burden gazes at the body of a German corporal. Also indifferent to death is Pvt. G.M. Dodds., of Middleville, Ont., who harnesses the animal on the portico of a church in Ortona, Italy, the Adriatic coastal town wrested from the Germans after eight days of bitter house to house fighting.
Credit (OWI Radiophoto from ACME)

1-3-44

77.09.3797

Illegible caption

1-3-44

77.09.4002.a-b

New York Bureau
Survivor of Explosion
Sandy Hook, N.J. - Brought to the Sandy Hook Coast Guard Station after he survived the explosion and sinking of a U.S. Destroyer at the entrance to New York Harbor on January 3^rd, Radioman I/c David L. Merrill, 21, of Henrietta, Texas, sips hot coffee. Beside him is the Red Cross “Survivor” kit of warm clothing, given him at the station.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME

1-4-44

 

77.09.1247

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
WAC Ingenuity Makes a Gala Christmas Tree. NORTH AFRICA – The nimble fingers of WACs in North Africa fashion cones, stars and paper chains, painting other ornaments in gay colors for their Christmas tree. (Left to right) Pfc. Iva Hess, of Washington, D.C.; Pvt. Marguerite Carnal, Dekalaba, Ill.; Corp. Theda McNall, Silver Spring, MD; Pfc. Mildred Ayers, Kosse, Tex.; Pfc. Ruth Ringenn, Peoria, Ill.; Lt. Sara Kruskall, Boston, Mass., and Pfc. Lucille Smith, of Milwaukee, Wisc.
Credit: ACME photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent

1-4-44

77.09.1610

New York Bureau
We Destroy Nazi Viaduct in Italy
ITALY—American bombs smash apart an important Nazi rail link at Recco, Italy, as U.S. Army on a viaduct. The resulting shambles caused long delays in the German transportation of essential material for the battle for Rome.
Credit: U.S. SIGNAL CORPS RADIOPHOTO FROM ACME.

1-4-44

77.09.1611.a

New York Bureau
Onions Bring no Tears to German Eyes
ITALY—Behind the battle lines in Italy, Nazi prisoners of war do K.P. duty with a smile, even though they are peeling onions for soup. Many of the captured German soldiers arrived at the prison camp bearing leaflets, fired from Allied guns, which described the excellent treatment they would receive on surrender.
Credit: OWI PHOTO FROM ACME.

01-04-44

77.09.2755.a

Attack
Roaring overhead on their deadly mission, six bloodthirsty Jap Torpedo planes were attacking a U.S. carrier during the December raid on the Marshall Islands when this sensational series was made.  Enlargements from a movie film made by U.S. Navy cameramen, this sequence tells what happened when one of the six attackers made her pass at the American flattop.
New York Bureau
Scoring at last, the carrier’s ack-ack crew finds a vulnerable spot, hitting the enemy attacker on the wing, the crew sees a sheet of flame stream from the plane.  In bottom photo, the Torpedo bomber yaws and its wing drops off.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME)

01-04-44

77.09.2756.a

New York Bureau
The story begins with the Jap Torpedo bomber coming in low, angling for the ideal spot to drop her deadly tin fish.  Crew members flatten out on the flight deck, to stay clear of the low-flying warbird.  In bottom photo, white streaks above and at the tail of the plan indicate that the carrier’s ack-ack crew is seeking the Jap with everything they have – sending tracer bullets out to find the attacker.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME)

01-04-44

77.09.2757.a

New York Bureau
Blazing a trail of flame across the sky, the stricken airship, minus one wind, noses down toward the sea.  In bottom photo, the bomber has disappeared into the water, leaving only a thick, black cloud of smoke to mark its grave.  In the background a U.S. destroyer speeds to the scene of the plane’s end.
Credit Line (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME)

01-04-44

77.09.2765

New York Bureau
Floating Repair Shop
Unda, New Georgia – Plowing up onto the beach like other amphibious craft, this “repair barge” will be ready to set up shop soon as it lands.  Heading for Wunda shore, the floating repair shop is equipped to work right on the battle front, under enemy fire.

1-4-44

77.09.3064

New York Bureau
”To the Rear—Slosh” for the Nazis in Russia
RUSSIA—Although news dispatches describe the Nazis as “reeling” backward before the Russians, actually the German soldiers are slogging and sloshing their way in retreat to the west. Here, enemy infantry troops wade ankle-deep in cold, cold mud with a mechanized wake of Russians. Photo radioed from Stockholm to New York today.
Credit: ACME

1-4-44

77.09.3065

New York Bureau
”Show Me the Way to Go Home”
RUSSIA—Wounded, exhausted Nazi SS troops sprawl on a half-track that is headed for rest quarters on the bloody Russian front. They have just been relieved by other war-weary fighters, and every day brings more miles of retreat. Photo radioed from Stockholm to New York today.
Credit: ACME