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

Date      

Image #

Caption

1-20-44

77.09.1304

SO THE CRIPPED MAY WALK AGAIN
MARE ISLAND, CALIF.—S. C. Blankenship, ship cook 3/c of Alum Creek, W. Va., is fitted for an artificial leg by Pharmacist Mate J. J. McFado, an orthopedic technician, at the U.S. Navel Hospital, at Mare Island, Claif. The temporary leg on the shelf will enable the sailor to walk, barely six weeks after he had his leg amputated due to wounds received a Vella Lavella on December 2. Later, a plastic and steel leg will replace the temporary artificial one.
Credit: Acme

1-20-44

77.09.1383

NEW YORK BUREAU
WAR HITS MIGNANO
ITALY—American units push their way forward over a blocked, devastated road in Mignano, Italy, now a mere remnant of a village on the way to Cassino. From the vantage point of the mountains in the background, the enemy keeps watch on our moves, and make fierce, brief counterattacks.
Credit: Acme

1-20-44

77.09.1386

NEW YORK BUREAU
SLAVE LABOR FOR REICH
One of the first acts of the Germans after they had taken over in Northern Italy, was to collect thousands of able-bodied male and female Italians and to send them to the Reich to work in Nazi war plants. In this photo, received in New York from a neutral source today, a group of Italians setting out for German labor camps.
Credit: Acme

1-20-44

77.09.2502

New York Bureau
NAZI “ROCKET” BATTERY IN ACTION
An incendiary rocket shell leaves the barrel of an electrically-operated triple purpose gun, one of a battery of the German pieces “somewhere on the Russian Front.” Three other “rocket” guns can be seen in the background of the photo just received from a neutral source. Today, in spite of stiff German resistance, Soviet forces have captured Novgorod in the North and are still advancing in the Ukraine.
Credit Line (ACME)

1-20-44

77.09.3051

New York Bureau
A “Hot One” for Fritz
A Russian shell bursts on the parapet of a German trench “somewhere in the South Russian front,” in this photo just received from a neutral source. Nazi soldier, in foreground, ducks the shower of dirt and shell fragments, while his comrades keep firing their rifles. Today it was announced that the key city of Novgorod in North Russia has been captured from the Germans, while the Soviet advance in the south continues. Passed by censors.
Credit: ACME

1-20-44

77.09.3981.a-b

New York Bureau
Deadly Sky Writers
Leaving white vapor trails high in the sub-stratosphere, these planes of the U.S. Army 8^th Air Force head for another devastating raid on Hitler’s “Fortress Europa.” In the foreground, are Flying Fortresses, while in the background, fighters accompanying the bombers on the mission leave curved trails in the sky.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME

1-20-44

77.09.3982.a-b

New York Bureau
Wounded General Returns
An East Coast Port - Brig. Gen. C. M. Ankcorn, of Palouse, Wash., who lost his right leg in front line fighting in Italy while he was still a Colonel commanding a regiment of the 45^th Infantry Division, is shown on his return to the United States recently. Gen. Ankcorn lost his leg when a jeep in which he was riding struck a mine in Italy. He has been in the Army since his graduation from Ohio State University in 1917.
Credit: U.S. Army photo from ACME

1-21-44

77.09.8

New York Bureau
They Died for Hitler
San Vittore, Italy – A flock of fallen Nazi warriors lies, with a batch of German equipment, on the ground at San Vittore collecting point. American Medical Corps personnel can be seen in background.
Credit: (U.S. Army Radiotelephoto from ACME)

1-21-44

77.09.9

New York Bureau
Marauder Goes Down Over Europe - 1 – Severed by enemy fire while on a mission over enemy-occupied Europe, the forward part of the fuselage of a B-26 Marauder plunges earthward. This is one of two unusual photographs made during a U.S.A.A.F. raid over Hitler’s land.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME)

1-21-44

77.09.10

New York Bureau
Marauder Goes Down Over Europe – 2
Torn from a B-26 by enemy fire, this Marauder tail section plunges down toward Hitler’s Europe. The ill-fated plane was downed during a U.S. Army Air Forces raid over enemy-held Europe.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME)

01-21-44

77.09.2740

New York Bureau
Jap ship burns in Hong Kong harbor
Hong Kong, China – Burning amidships and spouting smoke both fore and aft of the bridge, this 520-foot vessel of Japan’s rapidly dwindling merchant fleet was a victim of a 14^th U.S. Air Force raid on Hong Kong harbor.  The ship was shattered by hits from B-25 Mitchells.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces photo from ACME)

1-21-44

77.09.3980.a-b

New York Bureau
Flattop Under Construction
Newport News, VA. - Plumber H. H. McCracken (left) and his assistant, T. C. Ray, install an oil pipe peep in the bowels of one of the Navy’s new 45,000-ton Aircraft Carriers. This is the first photo ever released showing any work on the Navy’s giant flattops.
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME

1-22-44

77.09.1267

New York Bureau
The Americans “Hold Out”
Italy – Dead American Fighters are covered with brush and clothing by French relief troops who marveled that the yanks could “hold out” on the blasted mountains above the Cassino Valley. Enemy mortar fire reportedly ripped almost every square yard of the slope, and it looks as though this lost crew suffered a direct hit on their emplacement.  When this photo was made a U.S. Fifth Army burial party was on the way.
Credit:  ACME

1-22-44

77.09.1387

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
YANKS REPORT
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY—Just back from their dive-bombing mission in support of the new Allied thrust behind German lines south of Rome, two Yank airmen report to Col. D. E. Newton (left). The American airmen are: Lt. Frank David (center) and Lt. Fred Dorsch.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps photo via OWI from Acme

1-22-44

77.09.1388

NEW YORK BUREAU
WAR-FILLED VALLEY
ITALY—German and Allied shellbursts fill the Ori Valley with smoke and deafening sound, as the Fifth Army battles toward Cassino. American dive-bombers added their explosives, at intervals, as we fought to wrest the territory from the Nazis.
Credit: Acme

1-22-44

77.09.1390

NEW YORK BUREAU
OLD ITALIAN WOMAN IS A VOLUNTEER SPY
ITALY—A wily old Italian woman who watched carefully as retreating Germans laid their mines in the village of Radicose, discloses the location of the deadly hidden weapons to Allied soldiers. Here, she point sout a mine carefully concealed in rocks.
Credit: Acme

1-22-44

77.09.1392

NEW YORK BUREAU
DRESS HRHEARSAL FOR “ROME” INVASION
ITALY—After a surprise amphibious assault on German positions in Italy, black-faced Commandos share tea and biscuits with a German prisoner they brought back from the raid which was probably a test-rehearsal for the new Allied invasion behind enemy lines below Rome. British Commandos, Rangers, and Fifth Army troops are taking part in the present major assault to break enemy winter lines.
Credit: Acme

1-22-44

77.09.1396

RADIOPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
BERLIN HOUSEWIVES DO THEIR MORNING BARTERING
BERLIN—Striving to look cheerful for the photographer, Berlin housewives obtain estimates on the value of the articles they wish to barter, at one of the German capital’s 23 “exchange” centers. A meat grinder, coat, and shoes are seen among the possessions these bombed-out women wish to trade for articles they lack. The Nazis established the system to help out Berliners who have lost virtually everything from Allied bombings. (Photo radioed from neutral source.)
Credit: Acme radiophoto

1-22-44

77.09.1397

NEW YORK BUREAU
KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY—Italian civilians bid farewell to members of the Yank assault forces that participated in the surprise landing behind German lines south of Rome, staged at dawn today (January 22^nd). Resting as they await the order to embark, the Yanks were soon within thirty miles of home.
Credit: OWI radiophoto from Acme

1-22-44

77.09.3620.a

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Soviets Rip Nazi Defenses at Leningrad
Russia—Heavy Russian guns blast Nazi fortifications near Leningrad, tearing holes in the mighty fortress built during the two-and-a-half year Nazi possession of the Soviet second city. The Russian caption says that “tens of thousands” of Germans have been killed in this area, where the capture of key rail junctions cuts off the escape of thousands more.
Credit: ACME radiophoto.

1-22-44

77.09.4040.a-b

New York Bureau
As His Plane Goes Down in Flames
San Francisco - Hitting the silk to safety, Lt. Harry E. Pape floats earthward after his fighter-plane plunged out of control 6,000 feet over Oakland, Calif. Pape’s only injury was a wrenched knee suffered on landing, but the burning plane injured 10 when it crashed into a building at the Alameda, Calif., Naval Air Station.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from ACME

1-22-44

77.09.4052a

New York Bureau
But the Pilot Escaped
San Francisco -- All that was left of Lt. Harry E. Paper’s single-seater Army fighter plane dangles from a crane at the Alameda, California, Naval Air Station where the aircraft crashed. Exploding, the cracked-up plane injured ten building employees with a shower of flaming gasoline, while the pilot parachuted to safety.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo from ACME

1-23-44

77.09.1.a

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
First Prisoners
With the Fifth Army in Italy – Four German prisoners, the first taken by Allied Forces after the initial surprise landing south of Rome on January 22^nd, lounge on a west coast beach, guarded by a British Tommy. The entire Nazi Army was as surprised as these hapless captives to find the Allies in that section of Italy. After more than 24 hours in their new positions, our forces have met with only token resistance.
Credit: British Army photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME

1-23-44

77.09.11.a

radiophoto
New York Bureau
Good News for Clark
With the Fifth Army in Italy – Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, commanding general of the Allied Fifth Army, gets his first message from his invasion forces and reads the heartening news that our fighters swarmed ashore with ease, meeting no enemy resistance as they landed at dawn on January 22^nd. Pushing inland from their newly established beachhead, our troops have met with only token resistance.
Credit (U.S. Army Signal Corps photo via OWI – ACME)

1-24-44

77.09.2

Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Nazis captured in new Allied thrust
Italy – A column of captured German soldiers are marched to the rear by Fifth Army fighters taking part in the new Allied thrust toward Rome. The American, British and French assault troops have drive four miles inland and are reported only 30 miles from their goal, Rome.
Credit: Stars and Stripes photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME