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Upwards of 70,000 persons jam into all permitted areas of Soldier Field, in Chicago, on April 6, 1946 to hear President Harry S. Truman make an Army D...

Princess Elizabeth of England smiles as she stands outside the Nottingham Town Hall on April 3, 1945 in Nottingham, during her official welcome to the...

First National Bank of Boston Building, on Avenida Presidente Roque Saena Pena and Florida Street in the city at Buenos Aires, on March 28, 1946. The...

Shirley Temple enters a Hollywood cooking school to bake a cake for the 25th birthday of her husband, John G. Agar, just out of the Army, the followin...

Back Don Greenwood (66) of the Cleveland Rams hangs onto the ball as he is tackled in the second quarter by a Washington Redskins player on Dec. 16, 1...

Joe Aguirre (19), Washington Redskins end, attempts field goal from 25 yard line in closing minutes of play in last period of championship game at Cle...

Mao Tse-Tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and John Roderick, Associated Press correspondent, talk at Yenan, China, Dec. 16, 1945. (AP Pho...

Show Major Thomas B. McGuire, Jr., Paterson, N.Y. ranking ace of World War 2 (38 planes) chats with Col. Charles Lindbergh who lived in hut with him a...

Princess Elizabeth (right) speaks to a young patient, Doreen Collins, 3, during a visit to the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital at Brighton, Englan...

Green Bay Packers Buford Ray, knicknamed

Johnny Grigas, right, Boston Yanks is stopped for no gain, when Jack Matheson, (82) Detroit lions tackled him in second period of game on Nov. 4, 1945...

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda

Servicemen and Civilians stand in lines in front of room clerk windows in lobby of the Commodore Hotel in New York, Oct. 12, 1945 as they wait for roo...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur (left) poses with Japan's Emperor Hirohito (right) during the latter's visit to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 1945....

Shirley Temple, who became the bride of Sgt. John Agar at the Hollywood Wilshire Methodist church, Sept. 19, 1945, poses in her wedding gown. The dres...

This is part of the 2,600 Japanese troops, who comprised the enemy garrison at Rota, an island 50 miles north of Guam, shown Sept. 5, 1945. They are...

Iva Iuka Toguri, 30-year-old graduate of the University of California, known to thousands of soldiers in the Pacific area as Tokyo Rose through her p...

This is an aerial view of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, Sept. 5, 1945, one month after the atomic bomb was dropped. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Modern warfare is total not only in the damage wreaked, and the nations and races affected, but also in the cosmic amounts of material involved. To pl...

This is an aerial view of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, Sept. 5, 1945, one month after the atomic bomb was dropped. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Representatives of the Allied nations stand at attention as General Douglas MacArthur speaks, prior to the signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboa...

This is the scene aboard the battleship Missouri as the Japanese surrender documents were signed in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2, 1945. (AP Photo)

The Japanese surrender to the Allies aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur hands the pen to Lieut. Gen...

Schoolgirls weep in sorrow and shame in the Imperial Plaza before Emperor Hirohito's palace in Tokyo after there were informed of Japan's surrender, A...

A sailor and a member of the Women's Army Corp, after trading caps, do a

Servicemen in Times Square, New York, were happy as they read the newspaper extras announcing the Japanese Domei News Agency's broadcast saying Japan...

A mushroom cloud rises moments after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945. (AP Photo)

Casket containing remains of America???s leading air ace, Maj. Richard I. Bong, is borne from plane at Duluth, Minn., on August 8, 1945. (AP Photo)

This picture made from the town of Yoshiura on the other side of the mountain north of Hiroshima, Japan, shows the smoke rising from the explosion of...

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before takeoff, Aug. 6,...

Adm. William F. ??sThe Bull??? Halsey, Jr., Third Fleet Commander, shown on August 6, 1945, is seen aboard his flag ship somewhere off the coast of Ja...

During ceremonies at the No. 1 M.T. Training Center at Camberley, England on August 3, 1945, Princess Elizabeth, a Junior Commander ATS, received a cl...

Japanese workers carry away debris in a devastated area of Nagasaki, an industrial city on southwest Kyushu, after the August 9, atomic bombing, . Smo...

Crowd of civilians on July 7, 1945 in Neuwied, Germany lined up on street with American Armored car in background, during one of the 35th Divisions ra...

Maj. Richard I. Bong (left), America???s top ranking air ace with 40 victories to his credit, is welcomes to his new job as a test pilot as Lockheed A...

This photograph of a Japanese bomb carrying paper balloon in the air at New York, on July 2, 1945, was taken over North America. The balloons are supp...

Two German boys in Konigshofen look at a sign on July 2, 1945 saying, ??sThis is Hitler and his war,??? which townspeople posted on ruins of a dwellin...

Princess Elizabeth, heir presumptive to the British throne, as she attended a rally of Land Army girls in England on June 30, 1945. The Princess i...

American troops of the 35th division taking part in the raid on Polch June 29, 1945 in Germany, round up the surprised and frightened civilians, order...

Wounded pilot sits in the cockpit after landing in his flaming plane on the fiery deck of a carrier hit by a Japanese kamikaze in the Pacific, June 28...

The daughters of the King and Queen of England, Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret Rose, proudly hold the silver cup awarded them as firs...

Superfortresses of the 21st command are shown over their target at Yokohama, Japan, during a terrific fire raid, unloading their deadly incendiary bom...

Marshall Albert Kesselring, seated in the luxurious Berchtesgaden Hof, expounds his view on the situation, May 22, 1945. (AP Photo)

All that has come in from the Nazi Sub U-853, which torpedoed a collier off Pont Judith, R.I., shortly before the German Capitulation, is this assortm...

Three members of the surrendered German submarine U-805, brought into Portsmouth, N.H., stand on the fantail of the surrender vessel before being take...

Three members of the surrendered German submarine U-805, brought into Portsmouth, N.H., stand on the fantail of the surrender vessel before being take...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, under the

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret Rose, center, chat with a Lewishman WVS worker during a victory tour of South London, May 10, 1945, Lo...

The flag raised by Marines on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima and subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographe...

American troops of the Third American Army helped liberate the notorious prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany on April 30, 1945. Soldier is viewing...