AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs.Eleanor Roosevelt were in day spirit on their arrival, on Nov. 22, 1939 at Warm Springs, Ga., to spend Thanks...

Rockwell Kent, famous artist who painted the picture for this year's Christmas seal of the National Tuberculosis Association, presented President Fra...

President Franklin Roosevelt is shown giving an address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, which he called the nation...

With a total of 4,903 hours flying during the fiscal year 1939 without an accident, Patrol Squadron Eleven, attached to Petrol Wing One, was awarded,...

A large band of Finnish soldiers, who have answered their country's call to defend their homes from invasion, march on a training exercise, somewhere...

Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, Lieutenant General Hugo Osterman, at his desk, somewhere in Finalnd, Nov. 12, 1939. (AP Photo)

Australian Wirraway fighter planes, during a training flight somewhere in Australia, Nov. 11, 1939. (AP Photo)

An Army lorry is ferried across a river on a raft made of pontoons during a practice at a Royal Engineers training school, somewhere in England, Oct....

President Franklin Roosevelt paid for another year's membership in the Red Cross on Nov. 10, 1939 in the White House in Washington, D.C., and received...

Japan's leading pianist Cheko Hara, rehearses for a concert at the Japanese Club, in London on Nov. 10, 1939. (AP Photo)

President Franklin Roosevelt, who described himself as a farmer when he voted in the elections at Hyde Park, N.Y., on Nov. 7, 1939 shakes hands with...

President Franklin Roosevelt is shown as he signed the voters' register at the Town Hall on Nov. 7, 1939 in Hyde Park, N.Y., election. Mrs. Eleano...

Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, left, talks with his new Chief of Staff Rodolfo Graziani, in Rome on Nov. 4, 1939, during the celebrations to...

President Franklin Roosevelt is shown signing the neutrality bill in the White House, Washington on Nov. 4, 1939 making law this bill which opens Ame...

Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, right, salutes his new Chief of Staff Rodolfo Graziani, in Rome on Nov. 4, 1939, during the celebrations to m...

The new Bishop of London, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, centre in mitre, leaves St. Paul's Cathedral, London on Nov. 3, 1939, after he had been enthroned. (AP...

The new Bishop of London, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, centre in mitre, leaves St. Paul's Cathedral, London on Nov. 3, 1939, after he had been enthroned. (AP...

Members of the Australian Tank Corps put a tank through a gruelling exercise, somewhere in Australia on Nov. 3, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's Major General the Duke of Windsor, right, talks with French officers during a visit to the French Army in the field, somewhere in France on...

Royal Air Force officers and men escort the coffin of a German airman, draped in a swastika flag, that was washed up on the east coast, to a church wh...

German Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick addresses an audience at the induction of Arthur Greiser as the Governor of the state of Danzig, in the...

One of the new posters warning British troops not to discuss where they are being posted as the information may help the enemy, somewhere in England o...

Some of the ships of a British convoy assembling in Gibraltar, Oct 30, 1939, protected by ships of the Royal Navy, foreground. (AP Photo)

German prisoners and internees walk within their barbed wire compound, guarded by British soldiers, somewhere in England, on Oct. 29, 1939.

German prisoners and internees are held within a barbed wire compound, guarded by British soldiers, somewhere in England, on Oct. 29, 1939. (AP Photo)

German Army Commander in Chief Walther Von Braichitsch on board a train in Berlin, Germany on Oct 29, 1939. (AP Photo)

These expressive faces are those of Green Bay Packers shouting encouragement and applause from the bench to their mates on the field during the Packer...

This expressive face of a Green Bay Packer from the bench to his mates on the field during the Packers 24 to 14 conquest of Washington's Redskins, in...

These expressive faces are those of Green Bay Packers shouting encouragement and applause from the bench to their mates on the field during the Packer...

Over 20,000 people and families arrive at St. Mark's Quay, Venice, on Oct. 28, 1939, to board steamers that will repatriate them to Libya. (AP Photo)

Crowds and ambulances wait at the pit head for news and to take away the injured at the Valleyfield Colliery, Culcross, Fife, on Oct. 28, 1939. 35 min...

A crowd gathers around a German reconnaissance plane that was shot down by Royal Air Force fighters, near Haddington, in Lothian, Scotland on Oct. 28,...

Germany's Rear Admiral Karl Doenitz, who has been appointed as Supreme Commander of the German U-boat fleet by Adolf Hitler, in Berlin on Oct. 25, 193...

Reich Minister Dr. Hans Frank, who has been appointed to be Governor General of the regions of Poland occupied by the German Army, in Berlin ,Germany...

Aviator Colonel Charles Lindbergh speaks before major radio network microphones in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25, 1939. He is urging America to stop Ca...

People enter an air raid shelter, near Princess Street, Edinburgh, on Oct. 23, 1939, during an air raid warning. (AP Photo)

Britain's former First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, with his wife Lady Diana Duff Cooper, after their arrival in New York, on Oct. 22, 19...

A British warship is anchored close to the Italian liner Rex after she was stopped and searched by the Royal Navy for contraband, near Gibraltar on Oc...

British heavy howitzers wait to loaded onto a train, somewhere in England on Oct 22, 1939, on the first stage of their journey to the front. (AP Photo...

The Rev. Frank R. Wilson is shown presenting to President Franklin Roosevelt the King James Bible which King George England gave to St. James Episcop...

Ann Rutherford (left), young movie actress, lunching with Senator James F. Byrnes (D-SO) at capitol dining room in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19, 1939....

Finland's Field Marshal Carl Mannerheim reads a patriotic proclamation to thousands of civilians gathered in the Great Square , in Helsinki, on Oct. 1...

Three girls wait to enrol for national service in a recruiting office in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 1939. On the wall are notices in Hebrew reading

Members of the Civic Guard, of various ages and class, on a practice march in Helsinki, Finland on Oct. 17, 1939, in preperation for any national emer...

Young German girls watch attentively during a demonstration of Gas Masks, and put theory into practice in a Berlin school, Oct. 17, 1939. Thus Do Nazi...

The old main station in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 14, 1939, after it was destroyed by bombs and shells during the German occupation. (AP Photo)

Soldiers are trained on two giant French rail guns in a siding before they are taken to their positions on the Western front, in France on Oct. 13, 19...

A line of French fighter planes, being built in a factory, somewhere in France, on Oct. 13, 1939. (AP Photo)

A pile of bricks and rubble is all that is left of a block of flats after a German bomb had falled on it in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 13, 1939. (AP Phot...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his wife Anne, walk across Horse Guards Parade for their daily walk in St. James Park, London, on Oct...