Through the Camera's Eye:
The Allison Collection
of World War II Photographs (continued)
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Gallery 99
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Date
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Image # |
Caption |
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1-27-44 |
77.09.2319 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
NAZIS SURRENDER
NETTUONO, ITALY—Holding their hands high, a pair of Nazis surrender to
Fifth Army men in Nettuono. Our fighters reached the town shortly
after making their surprise landing at Anzio, Italy.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto from Acme |
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1-27-44 |
77.09.2320 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
CONCRETE SHELTER
ANZIO, ITALY—Retreating Germans erected these concrete blocks to tie
up roads in Anzio, but they served the American troops well as our
fighters entered the town. The blocks provided cover for Yanks firing
on the Nazis. At right, one soldier mans a bazooka gun.
Credit: U.S. Signal Corps radiotelephoto from Acme |
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01/27/44 |
77.09.2541 |
Radiophoto
Yanks, Say the Nazis
At Sea—The German Caption, accompanying this photo received through a
neutral source, says these men (?) a life raft are American Airmen
rowing away from the burning wreckage of their sinking plane. Shortly
afterward, they were picked up by a Nazi seaplane.
Credit: ACME |
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1-27-44 |
77.09.2558 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Cold Turkey
Two bombs from a plane of the U.S. Army 5th Air Force,
bracket the stern of a 3,000-ton Japanese freighter caught anchored in
Wewak Harbor, on the North Coast of New Guinea, during a recent raid
on the Nip base. Other bomb hits can be seen along the shore
installations (top of photo). American planes sank an enemy transport
and a freighter in the attack.
Credit: U.S. Army Air Force photo from ACME |
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01-27-44 |
77.09.3465 |
New York Bureau
Bowless Ship Plows Home
Alexandria, Egypt – With her bow blown off by a mine in the Aegean,
the Greek destroyer “Adidas” comes into Alexandria at a speed of eight
knots. Formerly the British hunt class destroyer “Border,” the “Half
a Ship” raveled for over 500 miles through dangerous enemy waters.
Credit line (ACME) |
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1-27-44 |
77.09.4236a |
THE FORT IS A RUGGED WARBIRD
ENGLAND—Here’s further evidence that the Flying Fortress is a rugged
ship. This warbird was struck by one of the enemy’s new aerial rockets
as it headed for a raid on Nazi territory. Its left horizontal
equalizer and elevator were damaged and the plane was forced out of
formation, but the Fort made its high altitude run over the target
anyway, and safely returned to its base. Photo was made from the
Fortress above the damaged plane.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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1-28-44 |
77.09.156 |
New York Bureau
Champion Team of the Sea
Late afternoon sunlight slants across the flight deck of a 25,000-ton
Essex Class aircraft carrier while, in the distance, a modern U.S.
Navy battleship of the 35,000-ton South Dakota Class steams along on a
task force mission somewhere in the Central Pacific. For the first
time, the Navy has released combat pictures of the powerful new combat
teams of carriers and battleships which are seeking out the Jap enemy.
Credit (Official U.S. Navy Photo from ACME) |
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1-28-44 |
77.09.1584 |
New York Bureau
Taking No Chances
British soldiers have a “surprise party” in store for any Nazi snipers
who may be hiding in this building, “somewhere in Italy.” Their guns
on the ready, the Tommies creep up to the doorway, one remaining
behind a stone wall in the foreground.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-28-44 |
77.09.1607 |
New York Bureau
Collides with Nazi in Mid-Air
First Lt. Thomas Smith, of Madera, Calif., explains a few
breath-taking facts to his flight leader, 1st Lt. Robert L.
Highsmith, of Lombard, Ill. Piloting his P-38 Lightning, he collided
in mid-air with a Nazi fighter plane, scraping the right engine and
setting it afire and slicing the tail boom in two. After two hours in
the air, when the second engine failed, Lt. Smith landed the battered
plane in a wheatfield adjoining his base. Credit: SIGNAL CORPS
RADIOTELEPHOTO FROM ACME. |
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01-28-44 |
77.09.3129 |
New York Bureau
Death Dance of a Jap Cruiser
Marshall Islands – Round and round she goes, with the white line at
the right marking her swirling wake, but a Yank torpedo gets the Jap
cruiser with a clean hit. A Grumman avenger released the tin fish
that sank the wildly-maneuvering enemy ship at Kwajalein Atoll in the
Marshalls, December 4, where a U.S. Navy task force left death and
destruction.
Credit (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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01-28-44 |
77.09.3130 |
New York Bureau
“Dive Bombers Paradise, Japanese Hell” – 2
Marshall Islands – A towering plume of white shoots far over the stern
of a Japanese light cruiser of the Kuma class as an American torpedo
strikes home while (upper right) the wake of another torpedo released
by a Grumman avenger is clearly seen. The second torpedo plowed
harmlessly past the bow of the ship, one of two light cruisers sunk in
the December 4, 1943 Navy task force raid on Kwajalein Atoll in the
Marshalls where the enemy lost 72 planes, two light cruisers, three
cargo vessels and a large tanker. Four other cargo ships sustained
direct hits and were left smoking by our carrier-based dive bomber,
torpedo and fighter planes.
Credit (Official U.S. Navy photo from ACME) |
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01-28-44 |
77.09.3467 |
New York Bureau
Heading For a New Home
North Africa – Jewish refugees line up on a dock in North Africa,
awaiting their turn to embark for Palestine where they will become
agricultural settlers. Through the cooperation of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, British authorities and the American
Office of Foreign Relief, they will find a new freedom.
Credit line (ACME) |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.102 |
New York Bureau
These are the Dead
Changteh, China – Chinese soldiers, in open combat, are giving their
answer to Japan’s barbarity. This is a common grave for Jap soldiers,
dug by the Chinese, on the battlefield at Changteh, where the sons of
China routed their enemies on December 3rd. Taken by the
Chinese Ministry of Information, this is one of the first photos of
Changteh battle scenes to be released.
Credit: (ACME) |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.909 |
New York Bureau
Launch U.S.S. Missouri
New York—The U.S.S. Missouri, our Navy’s newest 45,000 ton battleship,
is shown as she hit the water after launching ceremonies today
(January 29th) at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.
Credit: ACME. |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.1086 |
RADIOPHOTO
CHICAGO BUREAU
SHIPBUILDING BRINGS BOOM TO EVANSVILLE
EVANSVILLE, IND.: Built on waste land, the two year old shipbuilding
plant of the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company, has been
credited with producing a greater tonnage of ocean-going vessels than
any other inland shipyard of the world in the last year, in building
the Navy’s Landing Ships for Tanks or LST, to be used on both sides of
the world by invasion forces, although being built 1,000 miles from
the sea. Photo shows a pair of oddly matched workers, Ruth Nunley, 6
foot, 1 inch tall and weighing 254 pounds, and Johnnie Houston, 4 foot
4 inches tall and only weighing 120 pounds. In spite of the heavy
work, and the weather, a great number of women work side by side with
men, welding, burning and painting.
Credit: ACME |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.1149 |
CHICAGO BUREAU
MAYBE HE’S JUST MODEST!
CHICAGO – Capt. Robert Bixby, 27, Helena, Mont., holder of the
Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Clusters, who has
participated in 92 missions over India, Burma and with General
Chennault’s Flying Tigers, says he hasn’t shot down any Jap planes.
Moreover, the Captain grins, he hasn’t even SEEN one!
Credit: ACME |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.1150 |
SHIPBUILDING BRINGS BOOM TO EVANSVILLE
EVANSVILLE, IND. – Built on waste land, the two year old shipbuilding
plant of the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company has been credited
with producing a greater tonnage of ocean-going vessels than any other
inland shipyard of the world last year, and the Navy has boosted its
order to double last year’s quota! The company builds the Navy’s
ugly-ducklings, landing ships for tanks, or LST, as they are known in
the service. Photo shows Mary Hollencamp, a secretary, with sign
outside the yard office reminding the workers where their product is
to be used.
Credit: ACME |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.1705 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
WIDE OPEN AND PLENTY DANGEROUS
NETTUNA, ITALY—Fifth Army troops move a few miles inland from their
beachheads established near Nettuno, on the road to Rome. Flat level
plains are the battlegrounds where the Allies are making slow but sure
progress toward their goal.
Credit: Acme photo by Bert Brandt, via Signal Corps Radiotelephoto |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.2182 |
New York Bureau
A treacherous bit of Road Toward Rome
NETTUNO, ITALY – With good reason, a Fifth Army infantry patrol feels
alone and unprotected as it crosses a bridge over Mussolini Canal that
leads into German territory. It’s a bit of action that may never go
down in history but these men will remember it all their lives.
Credit (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, via Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) |
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1-29-44 |
77.09.2183 |
New York Bureau
Keeping Track of the Nazis
NETTUNO, ITALY – Before advancing, Fifth Army tankmen leave their
armored vehicles to scan the plains near Nettuno, Italy, for any signs
of the enemy who were completely surprised by the Allied amphibious
landings south of Rome. They park their war machines in a ravine in
the Mussolini Canal sector of the new front.
Credit (Acme Photo by Bert Brandt, via Signal Corps Radiotelephoto) |
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1-30-44 |
77.09.3648 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Defeat in the East
Leningrad—Symbolic of the defeat that the much-vaunted German
Wehrmacht is suffering in the East is this long line of Nazi war
prisoners in Leningrad who were taken when the lengthy siege on that
city was lifted recently. What’s left of Germany’s battered armies are
reported to be fleeing into Estonia through a 30-mile bottle-neck
between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Peipus as Russian troops,
advancing more than 10 miles a day, swept to the approaches of that
Baltic state.
Credit: ACME radiophoto |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.2194 |
New York Bureau
One of our Losses
WASHINGTON, D.C. – American soldiers examine the wreckage of a
Spitfire which had crashed into a small building in the town of
Attresseria, near Anzio, Italy.
Credit (U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from Acme) |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.2586 |
Rice for Chinese Fighters in Burma
Burma – Parachutes with large containers of rice for American-trained
Chinese troops fighting on the Burma front drop from a transport
plane. Note large number of chutes on the ground. (Passed by censors.)
Credit: ACME photo by Frank Cancellare for the War Picture Pool |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.2587 |
New York Bureau
Nips Captured by Chinese in Burma
Burma – Three blindfolded Japanese are led to the rear by Chinese
soldiers after their capture on the front in Northern Burma, where
American trained and American equipped Chinese troops are fighting the
Japs. Note modern U.S. combat helmets on soldiers (at right and fifth
from right). (Passed by censors.)
Credit: ACME photo by Frank Cancellare for the War Picture Pool |
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1-31-44 |
77.09.2588 |
New York Bureau
Chinese Wounded on Burma Front
Burma – Two Chinese carry a wounded companion to a dressing station on
a crude stretcher made of bamboo poles “somewhere on the Burma front.”
Note huge American-built transport plane in background. (Passed by
censors.)
Credit: ACME photo by Frank Cancellare for the War Picture Pool |
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