AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Bob Feller on pitching mound against Detroit on Sept. 22, 1946. (AP Photo)

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish born Academy Award winning actress and Charles Boyer, her current leading man, were given a double birthday party August 30,...

A mother play with four children in the yard of their home in Sdoth Yom, a fishing village in Palestine, Israel 35 miles South of Haifa, on August 27,...

Thomas C. Roberts, waving hat, of Princeton, N.J., and his son Frederick, 19, sit in the 1911 White touring car they drove from Titusville, Pa., to Pr...

The casket bearing the body of the late Sidney Hillman, 59-year-old labor leader who died of a heart attack, July 10, at his Long Island, New York, ho...

Stanley Ossvich (left), Neffs, Ohio., loader's helper , and loader Joe Jendruski (right), Midway, work on the conveyor June 22, 1946 in the Willow Gro...

This is the result of the erosive effect of wind on an unprotected field on Fred Grispentrog's farm in Boone, Nebraska, shown June 20, 1946. All of th...

John F. Kennedy, center, 29, war veteran and son of Joseph P. Kennedy, former Ambassador to Great Britain, casts his vote in Boston, Mass., June 18, 1...

Harry Blacker, Neffs, Ohio., shovels away slack pulverized by a cutter bar in the depths of the Willow Grove Mine, in St. Clairsville, Ohio, on May 22...

Miner John Vcelka, Wheeling, W.Va., section foreman in the Willow Grove Mine, St. Clairsville, Ohio, tests for gas with a safety light on May 22, 1946...

Driller Granville Jackson uses a long auger, driven by an electric motor, to make holes in the coal face in the Willow Grove Mine, at St. Clairsville,...

Wearing a garland of Roses, Assault stands in the Kentucky Derby winner?s circle, May 4, 1946 at Louisville, with (left to right) Mrs. Robert J. Klebe...

German Silesians who fled Russian advance, escape to Czechoslovakia, May 1946, plodding along the road on the way back, where they will find their nat...

Former heavy weight champion Max Baer, April 8, 1946. (AP Photo/Hogan)

German ?workhorse? fighter to be seen at National Aviation show, April 5, 1946 in New York. MR-109, first modern fighter approved by the Luftwaffe af...

J. Edger Hoover, left, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, gives his instructions to James Patrick McGranery, five-year-old son of James....

Photo shows Christopher Tsimourtos greets his mother, Mrs. Parashevi Tsimourtos, and his sister, Catherine 20, both of Athens, Greece, at the Departme...

With legs up as they stretch across bunks, these WACs peer out portholes on the USS West Point to catch a glimpse of the New York skyline on Feb. 7, 1...

Film stars, who are taking part in Roosevelt birthday ball activities, pose in east room of White House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1946 with Presiden...

Film stars, who are taking part in Roosevelt birthday ball activities, pose in east room of White House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1946 with Presiden...

Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson (left), of Houston, Texas, and Sir John E. Singleton (right) of England, co-chairmen of the Anglo-American Joint Committee o...

Photo shows German Propaganda Posters in Dec. 17, 1945. The poster issued by the Germans in their seaport towns as a warning against the British sea m...

?Jim? Braddock waves a friendly greeting to admirers at Fort Dix, N.J., Nov. 27, 1945 where he received his discharge after more tan three years with...

This is a section of Warsaw, war-devastated Polish capital, as seen from the air, Oct. 13, 1945. The city was a key German defense point in the final...

The bombed-out American embassy in Warsaw is shown, Oct. 9, 1945. (AP Photo/Henry L. Griffin)

Two Polish dockworkers look out over the inner basin of the Gdnyia harbor where the Germans had sunk their radio-controlled ship to block the inner ha...

This is how the inner basin of the Gdynis Harbor looks from the water with a German radio-controlled ship scuttled in the foreground, Oct. 5, 1945. T...

This is a view from the sea of the German battleship Gneisenau, sunk at the entrance of the outer basin, shown Oct. 5, 1945. Note how the sea wall is...

Gdynia Harbor is shown, Oct. 5, 1945 after the American and British bombing. Note the sunken ship and the wrecked pier. (AP Photo/Henry L. Griffin)

This is what is left of three German ships after the American and British bombing, Oct. 1945. Two are blown in half and the other is laying on her sid...

The ruins of the American Consulate building, left, and the King's Palace, and the National Museum, background, testify to the wholesale destruction i...

Pedestrians walk past the splintered ruins of Warsaw's main railroad station in the gutted capital, Oct. 3, 1945. (AP Photo)

A destroyed theater on one of Warsaw's main streets is shown, Sept. 30, 1945. (AP Photo/Henry L. Griffin)

This is a view of a war-torn street in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 30, 1945. (AP Photo)

Earl Carroll, celebrating his umpteenth birthday, passes out pieces of cake to some of his guests at the tag end of a party on Sept. 17, 1945, more la...

German aircraft, Sept 12, 1945. (AP Photo)

Sidney B. Wood, Jr., (left) of New York and Elwood Cooke of Los Angeles, Calif., relax after the quarter final round of men's singles at Forest Hills,...

British and American soldiers cheering the news of Japan negotiating peace with the three great powers on August 22, 1945. (AP Photo)

Carrying the stars and stripes and waving the Union Jack, jubilant crowds surge through Piccadilly Circus as they begin the final victory march in Lon...

This German lies dead beneath a fallen sign post in the city of Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 19, 1945, after four days of fighting between the German...

A.L. Lavrentiev signs Charter of the United Nations for U.S.S.R. in San Francisco, U.S. June 26, 1945 (AP Photo/FX)

Hundreds of immobilized German aircraft without propellors stand on an airfield formerly used by the Luftwaffe at Vaerlose near Copenhagen, Denmark, s...

Planning to restore collegiate football in the Pacific coast conference, these coaches met at Spokane, Wash., on June 12, 1945 for the spring conferen...

F.W. Hooper, of Jacksonville, Fla., smiles as he holds Hoop Jr., Kentucky Derby winner at Churchill Downs, Louisville, June 9, 1945. The Hoop is weari...

U.S. writer Raymond Chandler is seen reading a page of a new murder mystery script at his Hollywood, Ca., USA, home April 16, 1945. (AP Photo)

U.S. writer Raymond Chandler is seen working on a new murder mystery script at his Hollywood, Ca., USA, home April 16, 1945. (AP Photo)

Fala, pet Scottie of the late President Franklin D Roosevelt, arrives at the White House in Washington, April 14, 1945 for the funeral of his master....

The war affects the food problem for movie people as well as folks engaged in less glamorous careers. Ration points go a longer way and more variety i...

Forward units of the second White Russian front enter the burning city of Danzig, March 28, 1945. (AP Photo)

The interior of the 150-year-old Santa Barbara Mission is shown, April 2, 1945, Santa Barbara, Calif. Here Corporal James F. Smith of Fort Worth, Tex...