AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Caption on this photo which was published in a German Magazine says American and Filipino Troops are emerging from a tunnel to surrender on March 19,...

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, right, commander-in-chief in North Africa, jokes with four American soldiers during a recent inspection of the Tunisian bat...

Four-year-old Gwenn Easter listens attentively to the voice of Mrs. Florence Browne which she receives over the metal applicator of the Phipps Unit he...

Mrs. Spencer Tracy, center, plays with three, unidentified deaf pre-school youngsters who attend classes at the John Tracy Clinic, Feb. 18, 1943, Los...

Helmeted U.S. Soldiers cross a rickety but strategic foot bridge connecting the Island of New Guinea with Buna station, on Feb. 6, 1943, where the Jap...

Sen. Harry Truman, left, and Sect. of Int. Harold Ickes, sign an endorsement of a plan to erect a suitable National memorial for the late Dr. George W...

Actress Donna Reed, 22, and William J. Tuttle, 30, Hollywood make-up man, are seen after they were married in the Community Methodist Church of Beverl...

Native stretcher bearers rest in the shade of a coconut grove as they and the wounded American soldiers they are carrying from the front lines at Buna...

Surrounded by members of both the House and Senate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his annual report on the State of the Nation at the Ass...

US President Franklin D Roosevelt delivering his Annual Report on the State of the Nation at war to a session of the 78th Congress in the House Repre...

Football players Charlie Trippi (62) and Frankie Sinkwich (21), shown, Nov. 17, 1942, Georgia. (AP Photo/BIS)

Composer, violinist Fritz Kreisler, Oct. 26, 1942. (AP Photo)

Two-year old James Dean Strachman appears to ride a 500-lb., 12-inch projectile in Galveston, Tex., Oct. 25, 1942. The historic cannon shell was used...

While Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, right, looks on, U.S. Army non-coms set up a machine-gun for the instruction of Chinese troops somewhere in Indi...

Jake LaMotta, left, Bronx middleweight, ducks a blow from Ray Robinson, the Harlem welterweight, in an early round of their ten-round bout in New York...

On the afternoon of Oct. 1, a party of distinguished Ethiopians left Jerusalem for home. They numbered about 60 and consisted of relatives of the empr...

Outside view of Sherman Billingsleys Stork Club, shown, Sept. 23, 1942, New York. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines land a jeep from a new type of landing barge during their offensive against the Japanese on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, Aug. 30,...

Jeeps and new-type landing barges line the shore of Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons as the U.S. Marines launch their offensive against the Japanese...

U.S. Marines ride an amphibious tank as it reaches shore and starts to rumble up the beach on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, Aug. 30, 1942. (AP...

The caption which accompanied this picture, received in New York by way of Lisbon and London, describes the scene as showing ??sThe Bearded, weary her...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt joined her guests as she entertained at a Garden Party on June 12, 1942 in Washington at the south lawn of the White House fo...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt joined her guests as she entertained at a Garden Party on June 12, 1942 in Washington at the south lawn of the White House fo...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt joined her guests as she entertained at a Garden Party on June 12, 1942 in Washington at the south lawn of the White House fo...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt joined her guests as she entertained at a Garden Party on June 12, 1942 in Washington at the south lawn of the White House fo...

Lieutenant Robert Young of the California State guard attends a Hollywood party with Mrs. Young who wears a black dinner gown accented by a diamond an...

American actor John Barrymore's body laying in state at Los Angeles, Calif. June 1, 1942. Woman standing at left is unidentified. (AP Photo)

Some of Britain's Land Army girls help to fell trees, somewhere in England, June, 1, 1942. (AP Photo)

British trucks, carrying Ethiopian natives back to their homes for release and repatriation, are halted at Asmara, Eritrea, on May 14, 1942, where Wes...

Some of the first Japanese to be removed to the Tanforan internment camp at the race track at Tanforan, Calif., April 28, 1942. The group was among...

More than 2000 members of the Massachusetts Women???s Defense Corps, neatly uniformed and precisely drilled marched in the two-mile long parade on Apr...

Almost anything in the way of entertainment can be seen, and is, in the Rainbow Room on the 65th floor of the RCA Building in New York City's Rockefel...

Almost anything in the way of entertainment can be seen, and is, in the Rainbow Room on the 65th floor of the RCA Building in New York City?s Rockefel...

White ties mingle with informal dress nowadays in the Rainbow Room; high above New York City's storied buildings, April 10, 1942. Here typical group o...

The communist party advocates violent overthrow of the United States government, Benjamin Gitlow of New York city, twice candidate for vice president...

Private Clanton, Sgt. Joe Smit and Corp. G. Davis, all of New Mexico, man an anti-aircraft gun a hole on what used to be beautiful Luneta Park in Phil...

Photo shows Stanley 'Stutz' Modzelewski, tossing one in the basket shown Feb. 16, 1942. (AP Photo/PJC)

His real name is Claude William Dunkenfield, and he was born in the Quaker City in 1879. He went from Vaudeville to musical comedy and turner his tale...

The thoughts of war never entered the minds of those who wended their way towards times square to take part in what the police say was the biggest cro...

A view of the crowds that gathered at the gates of the White House on Dec. 7, 1941 in Washington after announcement that Japan had attached U.S. posse...

Darold Jenkins, University of Missouri center, poses Dec. 6, 1941. (AP Photo)

Sherman Billingsley with some of the first customers, Dec. 5, 1941. Billingsley (standing) points out features of the

University of Missouri head football coach Don Faurot, poses Dec. 2, 1941. (AP Photo)

Actress Bette Davis is seen in the film

Actress Bette Davis is seen in the film

Saburo Kurusu, right, Japan's special envoy to this country, was accompanied to the White House, Nov. 17, 1941 by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, cen...

The widow of Abe

Cocie Rathborne who played back for the Pelicans, hits the ball in mid-field in this action shot from the National Open Polo Semi-final Contest, Septe...

One of Britain's Land Army girls, helps to pick baskets of tomatoes on a farm, somewhere in England, Sept. 1, 1941. (AP Photo)

Office workers at the Boston Army base are doing there bit to help conserve gasoline and oil by doubling up on autos. Many of the cars arriving at the...