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Don Hutson, Green Bay Packers end at Bear Mountain, New York, on Nov. 15, 1944. (AP Photo/ John Lindsay)

Gene Ronzani, football professional, shown on Nov. 8, 1944. Gene Ronzani was the second head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1950 until 1953....

30 years war against Germany August 1, 1914- August 1, 1944. Mobilization order published in Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, Germany, August 1, 1944. (AP Photo...

Willie Covan???s dancers of M.G.M. entertain servicemen by doing a tap dance on the dance floor of the Hollywood canteen, Los Angeles on July 15, 1944...

This ?after? picture of the finely tract, July 4, 1944 near Elder, Colo., shown the land stabilized by the planting of a cover crop of sudan grass, ca...

Refugee Italian civilians follows closely on the heels of the advancing 5th Army force of the Allied troops in Littoria, May 25, 1944. (AP Photo)

On June 9, 1944, Mr. Moon gazes at same tree he hoed in 1937. The trees are Chinese Elm, with pine and cedars in foreground. Pine were planted in 37 a...

Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University, internationally famous economist, is shown in New York, June 9, 1944. He has devised a two-way map that...

A group of American and British soldiers patrol a street in captured Littoria, Italy, June 4, 1944. Italian natives pick their way, with bicycles, thr...

Movie star Ann Rutherford spins the wheel for a kewpie doll as she works behind a concession counter at the frontier carnival in Horton???s Barn on Ap...

Dick Triptow (23), DePaul University left guard, leaps for a basket try but misses, in the first half of the game with St. John University, in the fin...

Coach Bob Kiphuth (left) of the Yale swimming team and his ace, Alan Ford, on March 24, smile over Ford's double-header victory in the 50-yard, free-s...

Luke Sewell, left, manager of the St. Louis Browns, and Billy Southworth, boss of the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals, wish each other lu...

Glynis Johns is shown in character as ?Peter Pan,? Jan. 21, 1944. (AP Photo)

This is the Georgia Tech. team which Coach Bill Alexander probably will start in the Sugar Bowl game with Tulsa tomorrow. Left to right; Kilzer, L; Mi...

Ruth Cowan, woman war correspondent assigned to the London Bureau of the Associated Press on Nov. 17, 1943 paid a visit to a London Mixed A.A. Site, w...

Ruth Cowan, woman war correspondent assigned to the London Bureau of the Associated Press on Nov. 17, 1943 paid a visit to a London mined AA site, whe...

Ruth Cowan, woman war correspondent assigned to the London Bureau of the Associated Press on Nov. 17, 1943 paid a visit to a London mixed AA site, whe...

Jobless and homeless men wait on a long line to get a free dinner at New York's Municipal Lodging House, 1933. (AP Photo)

Here is the war ration book four, issued by the office of price administration shown Sept. 17, 1943. (AP Photo)

Shown at the ball game are from left to right seated are John Garfield, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Babin, Ginny Sims, Jinx Falkenberg and Ann Rutherford,...

Angela Lansbury, 17, who came to the United States three years ago with a group of child refugees from England, had a court approve her film contract...

Swimmer Alan Ford, shown on April 3, 1943, the Yale University winner 100 yard, free style is photographed in New York. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano...

Starting March 1, 1943 point rationing goes into effect throughout the United States. The sign shows some of the steps to be followed in acquiring can...

Bob Feller, former star pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, strides along with his bride, the former Virginia Winther, after arriving at La Guardi airp...

American machine gunners stand in their sandbagged positions along Sememi Creek on the Buna Frony. Beyond the trees are the Japanese, Jan. 13, 1943. (...

Dewey Ericksen (20), Tulsa University back, smashes through Tennessee???s line for a nine yard gain in the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans, Jan. 1, 194...

The Navy football team which is seated to start against Army in the annual service classic at Annapolis, Md., Nov. 28, 1942. The line, left to right:...

Green Bay Packers Don Hutson, left, with passer Cecil Isbell, shown on Nov. 25, 1942. (AP Photo)

Premier General Hideki Tojo and his cabinet following ceremonies opening a special session of the diet on Nov. 16, 1942. In front, left to right: Navy...

In two successive third period plays, the Chicago Bears made two touchdowns, but the first like two others made as they crushed Green Bay, 38 to 7, di...

Waiter in the heart of Times Square in New York City, Oct. 9, 1942 explains to patrons of a restaurant about the first

Former heavyweight champion Jim Braddock (left) and his manager Joe Gould march in together to a farewell party given them in New York, Sept. 30, 1942...

Fiercely charging his 220 pounds of bone and muscle, hofty Don Whitmire, junior tackle, shown on Sept. 8, 1942, gladdens the heart of Coach Frank Thom...

Every day the baby clinic at the assembly center is crowded with babies being weighed in and otherwise attended to. An average of a baby a day is born...

Grauman's Chinese Theatre is shown, June 25, 1942, Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo)

Adolph Hitler addresses young officers and cadets of German army, June 2, 1942. (AP Photo)

Guarded by more than 1,500 state troops, city and state police, moving vans carried the household goods of black families into Sojourners Truth, a fed...

This photo shows Beverly Hills, center, as seen looking west from the Hollywood Hills, April 22, 1942, Los Angeles, Calif. Beyond the ocean are the be...

New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and his wife Mary at the Easter dawn service in Central Park???s Mall in New York City on April 5, 1942. (AP...

Stones flew despite a police riot squad's efforts to maintain order in Detroit, Feb. 28, 1942 between prospective Black tenants of a million-dollar de...

The five Sullivan brothers, who hail from Waterloo, Iowa; are shipmates aboard the U.S.S. Juneau, light cruiser which was commissioned in New York, Fe...

General field Marshall Erwin Rommel peers from a tank, July 17, 1942 during a lull in his North African campaign before the fall of Tobruk. (AP Photo)

Jane Russell, actress and official

Byron Price, newly designated rector of censorship, calls at the White House, Dec. 19, 1941 in Washington to confer with President Roosevelt and membe...

That crack passing combination of half back Cecil Isbell and End Don Hutson of the Green Bay Packers, threatens to cause Chicago Bears plenty of troub...

The crew of Britain's powerful, 35,000- Battleship Prince of Wales abandons her, Dec. 10, 1941 after the Japanese had struck fatal blows from the air...

Service men and civilians gather in cigar store at 46th St. and Broadway to hear the Presidents talk, Dec. 9, 1941 in New York. (AP Photo)

The world was in sad shape in 1941 but it wasn???t all bad. Here???s a chain store grocer ad in a St. Louis paper in December of that year. Prices of...

Losing his helmet to a Cleveland Rams player, and with the ball almost juggling out of his arms, Hugh Gallarneau, Chicago Bears halfback, was in a bad...