AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Ruth Cowan gets European Theater Ribbon from Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson at Overseas Press Club, at Hotel Statler in Washington on Nov. 23,...

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, right, 30, a 1941 UCLA graduate, arrested in Japan a year ago as

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, aka

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 30, embraces her husband, Philip D'Aquino after her release from Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Oct. 25, 1946. She was accused of having...

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

Angela Lansbury, screen actress who came here from England four years of age, glances backward as she enters superior court, Sept. 11, 1946 in Los Ang...

Buck Nalon, a veteran dirt track driver, mounted brackets on his racer to hold a pair of General Tire-manufactured Jato Rockets, shown May 21, 1946, a...

Assault (No. 3) with Jockey Warren Mehrtens up crosses the finish line first in the Kentucky Derby at Louisville, May 4, 1946. Spy Song is second and...

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

Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians pitcher with his wife and his cruiser at Clearwater Beach, Florida on March 26, 1946. He is shown with his wife. (AP Pho...

Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians speed ball pitcher, takes time out from diamond duties to get aboard his cabin cruiser with Mrs. Feller at Clearwater Be...

Ernie Calverley (3), Rhode Island State center, and Wallace Jones, right, Kentucky center, go into high gear attempting to take possession of a free b...

One of the Novelty sights of Buenos Aires is the House built on top of a building in back of the Grand Hotel Cortes in Buenos Aires, on March 7, 1946....

This is an aerial view of Buenos Aries, Argentina, from the business district on Feb. 2, 1946, looking toward the harbor area. (AP Photo/Kenneth Luca...

Knife poised, Mrs. Bess Truman, wife of the President, begins cutting of the Roosevelt birthday ball cake, Jan. 30 1946 at Uline?s arena in Washington...

Tiny Margaret O?Brien (second from left) sits proudly on a bench with President Truman (second from right), his daughter, Margaret, (left) and Mrs. Be...

Tiny Margaret O?Brien (second from left) sits proudly on a bench with President Truman (second from right), his daughter, Margaret, (left) and Mrs. Be...

Tiny Margaret O?Brien (second from left) sits proudly on a bench with President Truman (second from right), his daughter, Margaret, (left) and Mrs. Be...

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

Knife poised, Mrs. Harry Truman, wife of the President, begins cutting of the Roosevelt birthday ball cake, Jan. 30 1946 at Uline?s arena in Washingto...

Fenimore (55) cuts sharply to his left and prepares a stiff arm for St. Mary tacklers as he drives over his right tackle to pick up seven yards in the...

Here's how the Middies worked a triple toss play against the Cadets in Philadelphia, Dec. 1, 1945; Navy halfback Bruce Smith (22) passed to end Arthur...

The Heinkel 111, an early Luftwaffe six-place bomber first used in the Spanish civil war, is now being studied by Air Technical Service Command specia...

The me 163, one of Hitler?s Vaunted secret weapons now being studied at this Air Technical service command installation, Oct. 2, 1945 in Freeman Field...

Only a shattered shell remains of the once beautiful city of Warsaw, Capitol of Poland, Oct. 1, 1945. Hardly a building escaped damage during the seve...

Two veterans of the China-Burma-India theater of war as they arrived on Sept. 26, 1945 in New York, aboard the USS General Greely accompanied by their...

Many of Germany?s latest aircraft are to be exhibited in Hyde Park, the exhibition is part of London?s Thanksgiving week which opens tomorrow among th...

At the news of the Jap acceptance of the Allied conditions, G. Is., go wild on Paris Boulevard, France, swarm over trucks, dance, wave flags of all na...

At the news of the Jap acceptance of the Allied conditions, G. Is., go wild on Paris Boulevard, France, swarm over trucks, dance, wave flags of all na...

At the news of the Jap acceptance of the Allied conditions, G. Is., go wild on Paris Boulevard, swarm over trucks, dance, wave flags of all nations, a...

When G. Is. in Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club on Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, heard news of end of Jap war on August 23, 1945, they poured out onto...

At the news of the Jap acceptance of the Allied conditions, G. Is., go wild on Paris Boulevard, swarm over trucks, dance, wave flags of all nations, a...

Fighting men of the Big Three Allies cheer on the conclusion of the war in Berlin, Aug. 22, 1945. (AP Photo/B.I. Sanders)

Russian, American and British soldiers cheer together after learning that Japan had offered peace offers to America, Britain and Russia, in Berlin, Au...

London servicemen carrying Old Glory, parade towards Piccadilly Circus in London, Aug. 10, 1945, on hearing of the Japanese surrender offer. (AP Photo...

Coach E. L. (Curly) Lambeau (second from left) and his staff plan a campaign for the Green Bay Packers at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on August 10, 1945 dur...

Coach E. L. (Curly) Lambeau (second from left) and his staff plan a campaign for the Green Bay Packers at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on August 10, 1945 dur...

The jubilant crowds at Piccadilly Circus in London on hearing of the Japanese surrender on VJ Day in England, Aug. 10, 1945. (AP Photo)

American troops of the 35th Division take part in the raid on Polch, Germany, rounding up surprised and frightened civilians and ordering them out of...

Civilians of the town of Polch, German walk down the streets under the watchful eyes of American soldiers who carried out a surprise raid on the town,...

American troops of the 35th Division take part in the raid on Polch, Germany, rounding up surprised and frightened civilians and ordering them out of...

American military government officials of the 35th division, look over papers of civilians in the streets of Polch, Germany on June 25, 1945. (AP Phot...

Hoop Jr. (1) finishes first in the 71st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, June 9, 1945, six lengths ahead of Pot O?Luck (2...

The woman in checkered jacket, who laughed when she emerged from the theater where atrocity films of Belsen and Buchenwald were shown in the German vi...

Racer Mauri Rose is shown with his son, Mauri Richard, 4, and his daughter, Doris June, Nov. 30, 1945, in South Bend, Indiana. Rose, 1941 winner of...

Citizens of Burgsteinfurt, under British occupation, march to the cinema under orders to attend the film viewing of the Belsen and Buchenwald films of...

Berliners in the U.S. zone get a glimpse of American Constabulary troops on the move during a special riot control exercise in the German capital, Apr...

U.S. Naval Academy grid team members expected to start against Army in the traditional class at Baltimore line up, Nov. 28, 1944, at a practice sessio...

Rescue workers dig amongst rubble, with the aid of cranes, for victims that may still be buried after a Woolworth Store , in New Cross , London, on No...

Rescue workers dig amongst rubble for victims that may still be buried after a Woolworth Store , in New Cross , London, on Nov. 26, 1944, had received...