Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 94
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Image # |
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1-4-44 |
77.09.3973.a-b |
New York Bureau
Navy Identifies Sunken Destroyer
Washington, D.C.—The Destroyer which exploded and sank at the entrance
to New York Harbor yesterday (January 3rd), with an
undetermined number of casualties, was identified by the Navy
department tonight as the new, 1700-ton U.S.S. Turner. Commissioned
only last April 15th, she was the second destroyer of that
name, each having been named for a hero of the 1813 battle of Lake
Erie. It is feared that at least 50 lives were lost in the ship’s
mysterious explosion.
Credit: illegible. |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.1609 |
New York Bureau
Italian’s Prisoners of Germans
BOSNIA—Several months ago we stopped seeing pictures of Italian
prisoners taken by Allies when their country capitulated and joined
forces with us. Now Italians are being taken prisoner by their former
Allies, the Nazis. Here, according to the German caption, is an
assembly station of Badoglio troops who were taken prisoner in Bosnia.
Photo radioed from Stockholm.
Credit: ACME RADIOPHOTO. |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.1622 |
New York Bureau
Prato Yards go up in Smoke
PRATO, ITALY—As high explosives of raiding American B-26 bombers find
their mark, an axis oil dump and the marshalling yards at Prato go up
in a mass of smoke and fire came so high that he thought it would
reach “right up to meet us at 10,000 feet.”
Credit: SIGNAL CORPS RADIOTELEPHOTO from ACME. |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.1623 |
New York Bureau
Bombs Away
PRATO, ITALY—Hurtling through Italian skies, the bombs from American
B-26 medium bombers raiding Prato zooms toward that town’s marshalling
yards. A few moment’s later, as our explosives found their Axis
target, smoke and flame covered the entire area.
Credit: SIGNAL CORPS RADIOTELEPHOTO from ACME. |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.1624 |
New York Bureau
Five Graves on Rome Road
VANAFRO, ITALY—Crowded together, five crosses mark the final resting
place of Nazi warriors who died on the road to Rome, in an attempt to
stem the Allied advance on Venafro. Two American soldiers stop to
inspect the graves. Left to right: Pvt. Reno F. Fiate of Bristol,
Conn.; and M/Sgt. Robert Heller of New York City.
Credit: U.S. SIGNAL CORPS RADIOTELEPHOTO-ACME. |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.1625 |
New York Bureau
Pain
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY -- Wounded while fighting with the Allied Fifth on
the Italian front, a French Goumier grimaces with pain as he is
carried from an ambulance to an emergency dressing station close
behind the lines. Photo radioed to New York from Algiers Jan. 5, 1944.
Credit: STARS AND STRIPES PHOTO via OWI-ACME. |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.1626 |
New York Bureau
Wascot of the Yanks
ON THE FIFTH ARMY FRONT -- The only member of his family who survived
the bombing of Avaline, ten-year-old Tony Mao has been adopted by
Yanks of the Fifth Army. Strictly “G.I.” in clothing and conversation,
the little boy gets directions for an errand from Lt. Anderson Smith
of Barnesville, Ga.
Credit: OWI RADIOPHOTO from ACME. |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.1627 |
New York Bureau
Sharing His Luck
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT -- Pfc. Paul Sugalski of Glen Lyon, Pa., shares a
Christmas fruit cake, fresh out of the mail bag, with his U.S. Fifth
Army buddies. Left to right: Pfc. Walter Samerdek, Central Falls,
R.I.; Cpl. Walter Hammer, Brooklyn, NY; Pfc. George Denmeade of
Struthers, Ohio; Pfc. Sugalski; Pfc. Arthur Smith, Providence, R.I.;
Sgt. Jeff D. Dermid, Jr., Asheville, N.C.; Pvt. Leonard Hickey, Glen
Falls, NY; Pfc. Vincent Cavallario, Watertown, N.Y.; and partly hidden
by the gun at far right, Clead Fitzpatrick of Ganado, Texas.
Credit: ACME. |
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01-05-44 |
77.09.3469 |
Radio telephoto
New York Bureau
The WAC Swing
Algiers – S/Sgt Danny Webb of Hollywood, Calif., and Pfc Ona Freeman
(both front center) of Kansas City, Mo., take the spotlight in this
scene, the Harem number, from the all-soldier WAC musical comedy
“Swing Sister WAC, Swing”. The revue was presented at the Algiers
Opera House, to the delight of all servicemen stationed there.
Credit (ACME photo by Charles Seawood for War picture pool,
transmitted via Signal Corps radio telephoto) |
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1-5-44 |
77.09.4244a |
New York Bureau
DAD GREETS HIS DAUGHTER
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND—Arriving at a Fortress base somewhere in England,
Red Cross worker Tatty Spaatz (left) is greeted by her distinguished
dad, Lt. General Carl Spaatz, American commander of strategic bombing
in the invasions of Western Europe. With back to camera is Dorothy
Mairek of Fort Wayne, Ind., and (at right) Virginia Sherwood of New
York City, both Red Cross workers.
Credit (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from ACME) |
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1-6-44 |
77.09.1612 |
New York Bureau
Camouflage
SOMEWHERE IN ITALY—Heavy snowfall provides camouflage at the Italian
front as Pfc. Charles P. Nelson of Caldwell, N.J. brushes snow from
shells in a dump in Pozzili area.
Credit: SIGNAL CORPS RADIOTELEPHOTO from ACME. |
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01-06-44 |
77.09.2762 |
New York Bureau
Jungle Novelty Shop
Guadalcanal – Jap soldiers unwittingly provided the “novelties” for
this unique trading shop run by a Marine on Guadalcanal. The
proprietor, Cpl Robert A. Weeks (right) of Urbana, Ill., decorates the
trophies he picked up on the battlefields with Jap flags, Jap
characters, etc. He is shown bargaining for a souvenir with a native
boy as Cpl Joseph F. Andrejka, Chicago, Ill., examines a decorated Jap
canteen. Barely discernible on Cpl Andrejka’s shoulder is “Coco”, a
variety of possum which is found on the island and is very easily
tamed. |
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01-06-44 |
77.09.2763 |
New York Bureau
Heave – Ho
Saidor, New Guinea -- Fresh off an LST, this jeep makes a bumpy trip
up the beach at Saidor, New Guinea. Just landed, a group of American
soldiers escorts the tiny car over the rough path to newly-laid road
mats.
Credit (Signal Corps radio telephoto from ACME) |
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01-06-44 |
77.09.2764 |
New York Bureau
Major Operation
Makin Island --- In operations designed to destroy all Jap machine gun
nests, Navy dive bombers drops loads of explosives on two old hulks of
ships off Ah Chongs Wharf, Butaritari Lagoon, Makin Atoll. Column of
smoke rises from one of the ships. Makin was occupied by units of the
165th infantry, 27th division, formerly the
fighting 69th of New York.
Credit (Signal Corps photo from ACME) |
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1-6-44 |
77.09.4528ab |
New York Bureau
Dressed for an Icy Dunking
Recent tests proved that the lightweight exposure suit worn by this
PCAF flier will increase the chances of survival of an airman brought
down in icy seas. This pilot got a dunking in the Canadian-Atlantic
and was able to float comfortably for hours, while his companions who
wore only ordinary pilots’ clothing or sheepskin suits had to holler
for “rescue” almost immediately. A joint U.S.-Canadian air-sea
committee conducted the tests in 40 degree water.
Credit: Army Air Force photo from ACME |
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01-07-44 |
77.09.3277 |
New York Bureau
Lighting Up
Butaritari Island, Makin – Holding his naked son, a Makin native is
about to enjoy the luxury of an American cigarette as he grubs a light
from one of his neighbors. This crowd of natives, huddled on rocky
Red beach, is about to be evacuated from the area by Americans who
hold the beach.
Credit line (U.S. Signal Corps photo from ACME) |
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1-7-44 |
77.09.3652 |
New York Bureau
Brief Visit
Zhitower, U.S.S.R.—Launching their counter-offensive against the Kiev
salient, the Germans tasted success briefly when they re-occupied
battered Zhitomer. In this photo, received in London through a neutral
source, Nazi infantrymen survey the city’s ruined streets.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-7-44 |
77.09.4529a |
New York Bureau
Hello Again
Somewhere in England – Meeting in England, a year and a half after
both boys worked on ACME Newspictures’ photographic staff, Sgt.
Reginald Kenny (left) of Somerville, New Jersey, and Sgt. Bruce Bacon,
of Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, catch up on their news of
the boys back at the home office. Sgt. Bacon, who reads the NEA-ACME
letter, is with the Army Pictorial Service. Sgt. Kenny is with the
U.S. Army Public Relations Office.
Credit: ACME |
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1-8-44 |
77.09.37 |
New York Bureau
Good Ole American Soil
At an East Coast Port – Lovingly, Lt. Benjamin Ralston of Chicago,
Ill. pats the soil of America as he comes ashore from the U.S. Army
hospital ship, Acadia, at an east coast port. The land he was willing
to die for feels mighty good to this fighting Yank, who was the first
of a large group of casualties to come off the mercy vessel.
Credit: (ACME) |
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1-8-44 |
77.09.1620 |
New York Bureau
She Brought Happy Warriors Home
AT AN EAST COAST PORT -- Steaming into an East coast port with her
precious cargo on January 5th, the U.S. Army hospital ship
Acadia brings a batch of wounded, but happy Yanks back to their
homeland. The vessel carried casualties from North Africa, Italy and
Europe, who were sent to Hospitals for treatment as soon as they
debarked.
Credit: ACME. |
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01-08-44 |
77.09.2908 |
New York Bureau
Jap Warbirds Crash at the Cape
Cape Gloucester, New Britain – Only thin columns of black smoke remain
of three Jap planes that attempted to attack Coast Guard and
Navy-manned LSTs invading Cape Gloucester. The pyres burn at extreme
left, center, and extreme right of photo, marking the spots where the
ill-fated attackers plunged into the sea.
Credit Line (U.S. Coast Guard photo from ACME) |
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1-9-44 |
77.09.1711 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
CLOSE-UP OF HITLER’S HEADACHE
GERMANY—With its bomb bay doors open, a Flying fortress streaks
somewhere over Germany ready to drop its load of death and destruction
on Hitler’s war-producing territory. A few second after this photo was
taken, the bombs went whistling earthward to sound another note in
Hitler’s death march. This remarkable picture was taken during a
recent raid by U.S. Eighth Air Force Liberators and Forts.
Credit: Acme |
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1-9-44 |
77.09.3796 |
Chicago Bureau
Nazis Recaptured After Escape
Wichita, Kans.—Four Nazi war prisoners caught near Wichita, Kansas,
seem unruffled after being taken in the biggest manhunt of the
region’s history by state highway patrolmen Capt. Paul Drescher (near
right) and Galen Bennett (left). The prisoners (left to right) Hans
Hass, 22; Alfons Putliewitz, 19; Enno Heyer, 20; and Karl Schroader,
25, escaped from a train near Elndale, Kansas.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-10-44 |
77.09.1480.a |
LAGONE, ITALY—Scene of many days of bitter fighting, the tiny mountain
town of Lagone fell to the warriors of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s fifth
Army, and the smoke of battle had hardly ceased 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 that has left
them with a deep, grim hatred for the Germans.
New York Bureau
An old man, who was beaten by the Germans when he protested against
being driven from his home, lies on a stretcher after being carried
from the hills. His wife leans over the 65-year-old Italian, telling
American Soldiers that her husband will never walk again.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool correspondent.
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01-10-44 |
77.09.2907 |
New York Bureau
Close, But no U.S. Landing Ship
The crews of two coast guard-manned ships heave a relieved sigh as a
Jap bomb plunges between the pair of vessels aiding in the invasion of
Cape Gloucester, New Britain. The ships are packed with Marines and
equipment, both ready for the push ashore.
Credit (U.S. Coast Guard photo from ACME) |
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