AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Long after regular night club habitu??s have struggles homeward, war workers on the lobster shift at the Bendix Aviation Corp in Philadelphia, on Marc...

Fifty-thousand Poles living and working in the U.S.S.R., gained permission to migrate to the Middle East. Here, a multitude of refugees is shown trekk...

Ruth Cowan (seated, right), Associated Press war correspondent, interviews three members of the WAAC at their billets in the North African theater of...

This is the monastery of Mission La Purisima, Santa Barbara, Calif., shown Dec. 15, 1942. (AP Photo)

Max Baer, left, former heavyweight champion, gives some ?Baer? facts to an army air corps doctor at Sacramento, California, Dec. 14, 1942 when he and...

New York Yankees ball player Joe DiMaggio poses Sept. 15, 1942. (AP Photo)

Alejo Russell (far court), mustached Argentine tennis star, breaks into a broad smile as he smashes ball out of the reach of Sidney Wood, Jr. (left),...

Under the watchful eye of his partner, veteran Sidney B. Wood (background), young Ted Schroeder, Glendale, Calif., smashes a drive over the net in the...

Two women, Jemime Spence, left, and Betty Hunter, are learning one of the toughest jobs in a shipyard, somewhere in England, July 20, 1942, using the...

Women are learning one of the toughest jobs in a shipyard, somewhere in England, July 20, 1942, handling the great half-ton steam hammers, under the w...

Photo shows Eugene L. Vidal inspects a partly completed wood-and-plastic plane body in the Vidal Research Corporation plant in Camden, New Jersey, on...

Traffic along Boston?s ?Newspaper Row? on Washington Street (above) in the downtown hub section returned to its customary/Jammed state in Boston, on J...

Wearing their full anti-gas equipment, troops man the anti-aircraft gun during a mock attack, at a gun-site somewhere in England, on June, 10, 1942. (...

Reich Schanceilor Adolph Hitler (on platform right foreground) addresses young Officers and Cadets of the German army at an assembly in the Berlin Spo...

Shut Out (No. 3, foreground) comes home the winner in the running of the 68th Kentucky Derby at Louisville, May 2, 1942. Alsab (right behind Shut Out)...

Shut Out, with Jockey W. D. Wright up, receives the wreath of roses following his victory in the 68th running of the Kentucky Derby at Louisville, May...

Frank Crespi of the St. Louis Cardinals shows off his special glove which has the middle fingers shortened to improve his fielding, May 1, 1942. (AP P...

Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder starting his first full year in the major leagues, practices April 23, 1942. (AP Photo)

Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder starting his first full year in the major leagues, practices April 23, 1942. (AP Photo)

Photo shows two native women of Singapore, one carrying a baby, rush from a bombed and burning building in Singapore, on March 13, 1942 during the nig...

Photo shows sitting on a piece of debris in a Singapore street, on March 13, 1942, a Malayan mother expresses her grief over the loss of her child who...

British imperial troops kneel on a Singapore street, to give what aid and comfort they can to a native wounded in the final days of the battle for tha...

Photo shows Native Tamil workmen busy, clearing up bomb debris in Singapore after a Japanese raid on Singapore an January 17, 1942. (AP Photo)

Japanese forces placed this head of a Chinese soldiers on a barbed wire barricade in China, on Dec. 28, 1941 as a warning to the public not to opposed...

Photo shows soldiers on guard at the Air Associates, Inc. plant at Bendix, New Jersey, on Oct. 31, 1941, stand in front of a company sign. The factory...

Johnny Mize, on Sept. 29, 1941, St. Louis Cardinals. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt lifts his dog Fala as he prepares to motor from his special train to the Yacht Potomac at New London, Conn., Aug. 3, 1...

Two gasoline tanks belonging to the Russians in what German sources said was the city of Lviv, go up in heavy black smoke, July 26, 1941. They were de...

The well proved Stukas JU 88 are manufactured in huge numbers, July 15, 1941. Standing in line like a row of Prussian grenadiers are these JU 88 bodie...

This is a view of the rear court of the GPU prison in Lemberg, Lwow, Poland, July 4, 1941. Here, retreating Soviets killed about 7,000 Polish and Ukra...

A German soldier inspects a giant Russian tank, said by Berlin sources to have been abandoned in the suburbs of Lviv, Ukraine, former Polish city, whi...

German workmen mount engines in the fuselages of stuka dive bombes on an assembly line in an aircraft factory somewhere in Germany, June 15, 1941. The...

Bearing the Nazi Swastika, a German glider, soars over the Rhoen Hills in Germany, May 20, 1941 a favorite spot for German Glider pilots. Glider beari...

People of Lemberg (Lvov, Poland) who had fled, return with the German troops that entered the city, May 7, 1941. (AP Photo)

A train load of miners enter the Pittsburgh Coal Company's montour No. 10 mine at Library, Pennsylvania, on April 30, 1941 after a four-weeks layoff d...

The third anniversary of Austria's rejoining the Reich was celebrated with a large demonstration on the Holdenplatz in Vienna, March 13, 1941. (AP Pho...

The road to Lemberg was lined with disabled Soviet tanks and armored cars, March 7, 1941. Here, a Soviet tank of heaviest caliber is shown on the outs...

German infantry rests for a moment after strenuous marching in Poland, Jan. 7, 1941. In background, the burning city of Grodno is seen. (AP Photo)

Fordham's Len Eshmont carried the ball 11 yards on this play in the first period of the Cotton Bowl game with the Texas Aggies at Dallas, Jan. 1, 1941...

Photo shows street car in Krakow, Poland, shown Dec. 20, 1940, is divided into two sections. The sign indicated one section is for Jews, one for non-J...

Hats off for prayer services for their fallen comrades on Memorial Day in Germany, Dec. 18, 1940. (AP Photo)

The German railroads play a big part in the Reich?s war effort. Units of one of the famous Panzer (armored tank) division loaded on railroad car. Dec....

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Vaudeville and stage star Elsie Janis and

These Union Theological Seminary students were served with Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas after they declared they would not register for selective serv...

His arm upraised by an announcer, Max Baer was declared the victor over Pat Comiskey in 2:39 of the first round of their heavyweight fight at Roosevel...

This isn?t the sort of reception the Nazis may have hoped for, in dropping extracts from Hitler?s ?appeal to reason? speech July 19 to the Reichstag u...

J. Edgar Hoover speaking at the Fourtieth Annual convention of the New York State Assn. of chiefs of police, Hotel Astor in New York, July 23, 1940. (...

Picturesque Spanish architecture built in in 1927 at cost of $1,500,000 in Santa Barbara, Calif. is shown, July 20, 1942. (AP Photo)

Division of German soldiers, July 18, 1940. (AP Photo)