AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Air reconnaissance photograph showing the damage caused at the Railway Yards at Saintes, 75 miles North of Bordeaux in France. The photograph was take...

American troops move over the crest of a hill to the interior of Northern France, June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

Men and assault vehicles storm the Normandy Beach of France, as allied landing craft arrive at their destination on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Note men comi...

Associated Press War Correspondent Roger Greene stands on the Normandy battle front shortly after D-Day, June 6, 1944. Greene wore a white patch over...

American troops marching to a port of embarkation where they were embarked in landing craft for the invasion of Nazi ooccupied France, June 1944. (AP...

U. S. troops and vehicles pour into the open mouths of last landing ships at Brixham, England in June of 1944, as the allies assembled the greatest in...

Both the standard model, left, and the desk-size RCA electron microscopes, which have opened new sights to sciences, are shown May 23, 1944 with the m...

The organism treponema palladium, which causes syphilis, is seen through an electron microscope, May 23, 1944. (AP Photo)

Sergeant Bill Mauldin, Stars and Stripes artist at the Anzio beachhead in Italy, points out a spot of interest May 21, 1944 to war correspondent Fre...

President Roosevelt witnesses the signing of International Labor Organization's declaration for world economic security in his White House office in W...

As the D-Day draws near, men of a U. S. tank division line up their General Sherman (M-4) tanks on a range for firing practice with their 75mm guns, s...

Millions of tons of tanks, guns and munitions of all kinds are pouring into France to support the Allied offensive. Chief ordnance officer is Maj.Gen....

A group of press correspondents chat on board a USS Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) enroute to amphibious maneuvers somewhere off the coast of England o...

Sgt. Joe Louis, duration heavyweight boxing title holder now servicing with the armed forces overseas, sits for his measuments for Bernard Tussaud, of...

Two new and improved electron microscopes will be placed on view for the first time before a meeting of the society of American Bacteriologists at the...

Two American B-26 Marauder Medium Bombers head for home as their bombs burst on the French coastal area below, May 3, 1944. (AP Photo)

Somewhere in England, these U.S. Army specislists, quartermaster corpsmen, use amphibious

Kenneth Lucas, the clown photographer, takes a picture of Felix Adler,

Teams of American infantry assault troops practice first wave landings on a beach in the European theater April 29, 1944 as they prepare for the openi...

Robert McLean, President of the Associated Press, April 19, 1944. (AP Photo/Murray Becker)

Actors Boris Karloff, right, and Lon Chaney, left, meet silent screen star William Desmond, on the set of Karloff's new film,

Associated Press War Correspondent Lynn Heinzerling stocks his tent with plenty of wood, March 18, 1944. (AP Photo)

Hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs are stacked in a woods at a temporary

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of Allied forces organizing in Britain to invade Europe, lifts field glasses to his eyes to watch man...

Maj. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, CG 18th airborne division, Leicestershire, England, March 12, 1944. (AP Photo)

Carrying out his promise of vengeance for his beating two years ago, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwill, commander of U. S. Armies in the India...

Aboard a PT boat carrying him to the Anzio, Italy, beachhead 30 miles south of Rome, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, commanding General, U.S. Fifth Army, peer...

These 48 Japanese Americans from the Granada Relocation Center near Lamar, Colorado, reported for preinduction physical examinations at the Denver Ind...

Alberto Varga, glorifier of the pin-up girl, works on small-scale drawings for the Broadway show

Two lines of U.S soldiers march along Italy's Highway 6, the

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, charged with the defense of

U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Louis is greeted by Red Burman left, a former boxing opponent., as the champion visits Baltimore, Md., January 24, 1944 The hea...

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Bragg, sports enthusiasts from New York City, look over

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Bragg, sports enthusiasts from New York City, look over some of their horses at their stables at Hialeah Park in Miami, Fla., J...

Mr. Thomas E. Bragg, sports enthusiast from New York City, is shown with

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins greets President Roosevelt in the White House upon his return from the Cairo and Tehran conferences in Washington o...

Navy and government officials stand by for the launching of the $90,000,000 Battleship Wisconsin, which went down the ways at the Navy Yard at 11:45 A...

Victor A. Kravchenko, former Soviet official who renounced communism in 1944. (AP Photo)

1944 portrait of Gerd von Rundstedt a German Field Marshall. (AP Photo)

This picture of General Frank Merrill of Merrill's Raiders made at his headquarters in Burma in 1944. (AP Photo)

Commander Joseph Clinton of the United States Navy and Eugene Burns, Associated Press War Correspondent aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean, 1944. (AP...

Agnes De Mille introduces Intrepid Army officer Lt. Walter Prude is to Marc Platt, left, and Katherine Sergava, second from right, featured dancers, b...

Roy Acuff, country star of the Grand Ole Opry is seen performing with the Smoky Mountain Boys, Nov. 24, 1943, in Nashville, Tenn., from left to right:...

This is a general view of Tule Lake, California Japanese Internment Camp, November 5, 1943. The army has taken over control of the center after a civi...

Egged on by Tiny Clark, left and Dick Thomas, two blindfolded women search for a potato in the center of the circle at the Village Barn night club in...

Governor Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, right, delivers a jug of sorghum molasses to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brandner in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Oct 17, 1943. Mrs....

Louis B. Mayer, managing director of Loew's producing subsidiary, Metro-Golowyn-Mayer, who as a witness at the New York trial on Oct . 15, 1943 of Wil...

Betty Grable in this scene from her forthcoming Musical,

Bambi Linn is shown during her performance of an American Folk Ballet in which she rejoices over the coming wedding of her friend Laurey on Aug. 22, 1...

Three of the young dancers in the