AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Generalissimo Chiang Kai Chek, left, and Supreme Allied Commander Lord Mountbatten, confers with Chinese, April 30, 1945. With him are: Dr. T.V. Soong...

Shirley Temple observed her 17th birthday at her home near Hollywood by gathering clothing from her wardrobe, including dresses and costumes she wore...

These 14-year-old Nazi boys were part of a large group of prisoners taken near Bierstadt in Germany, April 15, 1945 by the 4th Armored Division of the...

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Harry S. Truman takes the oath of office for President of the United States shortly after President Roosevelt's death, April 12, 1945. (AP Photo)

Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek poses with Major General C.L. Chennault, shown April 10, 1945, during the Chinese leader's visit to the headquarters of...

Hit and set afire during a raid on Kanoya airfield, Kyushu Island in Japan, one of the Japanese home chain, a Navy helldiver plane roars comet-like ac...

A soldier of the 184th Regiment, 7th Army Division, hit in the foot and head is treated by the medic and put on a litter to be carried to the rear, Ap...

A single shot from the gun of the U.S. Marine at left fells a Japanese soldier after he tried to escape when called upon to surrender on Peleliu, Marc...

Smoke still pours from the area of Tokyo, lower right, following the attack by a force of more than 300 Marianas-based B-29s, March 10, 1945. The Impe...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret Rose arrive at Windsor Great Park to attend the tree planting ceremonies commemorating the work done b...

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Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, to whom Gen. Douglas MacArthur relinquished command on Corregidor, broadcasts the surrender order in 1942 to his t...

Within a few yards of each other are two dead Marines, covered by their ponchos, and four Japanese soldiers amid the debris of battle on Iwo Jima, Mar...

Charles M. Tuttle, standing, counsel for the bi-partisan commission which drafted the Ives-Quinn Anti-Discrimination Bill, speaks in favor of the bill...

Photo shows of Richard I. Bong, taken in Australia on Feb. 15, 1945. (AP Photo)

Photo shows of Richard I. Bong, taken in Australia on Feb. 15, 1945. (AP Photo)

Riding in an American Jeep, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is greeted at the Airport in Yalta, Crimea, Russia, by Russian and British officials with...

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Britain???s Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left foreground) salutes while standing aboard a British Warship at Malta, greeting President Roosevelt...

Princess Elizabeth (right) of Great Britain, and Anne Critchen during the first act of a costumed ballet presentation given in London on Jan. 31, 1945...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret shown in a duo dance as they performed in a ballet which they produced and wrote, Jan. 30, 1945, Londo...

One American tank passes another, bogged down in a ditch at the side of the road in Belgium, Jan. 25, 1945, at one the northern flanks of the von Rund...

A 30th division jeep is driven through the streets of Malmedy, Belgium, during a snowstorm, Jan. 19, 1945. The driver covers his face, except for his...

Blown from his gun blister when it was destroyed by Japanese Interceptor fire, Sgt. J.R. Krantz, a B-29 waist gunner dangles from his plane, as it fli...

Sgt. 1st Class Leon Leroy, 18, of Antioch, Calif., talks with his mother, Jan. 19, 1945, at their home where he told a story that he, an army sergeant...

Dances, while recreation, also have their part in the social adjustment of the blind soldiers of this war at Old Farms. Here, Cpl, Matthew Parks is s...

An American soldier walks along a snow-covered street in a Belgian town that is lined with the bodies of Germans who were killed while defending the t...

Fleet Admiral C.W. Nimitz, USN, is shown Jan. 9, 1945, showing the new insignia of Fleet Admiral, the rank to which Fleet Admiral Nimitz was elevated...

Lt. General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. inspects Black troops, Jan. 9, 1945 in Italy. (AP Photo)

The 82nd Airborne Division in Belgium, participating in the great Allied drive is shown, Jan. 7, 1945. Tanks line up in position in the snow. (AP Phot...

Field Marshall Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, center, allied commander in the northern sector of the Western front, confers with allied officers at his he...

Firefighting crews of an unnamed U.S. carrier battle flames in two planes, which were hit by Japanese bombs in the Philippines, Jan. 4, 1945 while on...

His body in the shrouded cockpit of the Torpedo plane in which he was killed by Japanese flak while on a mission in Philippines, a U.S. Navy Airman is...

Young actor Bill Eythe is shown, Dec. 29, 1944. (AP Photo)

Young actor Bill Eythe is shown, Dec. 29, 1944. (AP Photo)

Major Richard Bong, leading American air ace, with 40 Jap Planes show down in Combat, wears Congressional Medal of Honor he received from General Doug...

A Nazi waves to the cameraman in Belgium in this photo provided by the U.S. Signal Corps, Dec. 17, 1944. (AP Photo)

This dramatic scene made during a German Counter-attack on Hoven, shows U.S. mortar crews firing at Nazi tanks, Dec. 6, 1944. The Americans entered...

Jane Churchill raises her right hand, before being sworn in as first witness in trial of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dorsey and Allen Smiley on felonious assau...

Correspondent and author Ernie Pyle, shown in 1945, ?was killed in the Pacific theater of operations. This picture was made early this year somewhere...

A United States Air Force fighter plane P-38, is shown in flight, 1945. (AP Photo)

Mao Tse Tung, center, poses with Chou En-Lai, left and Chu Teh, right, at the Communist Chinese wartime base at Yenan, China in 1945 During the C...

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Blonde Jane Churchill, left, strides past Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dorsey on her way out of the courtroom, after testifying in their trial on felonious assa...

An Allied war correspondent stands amid the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb. (AP Photo)

American infantrymen, menders of the 95th division, keep on the watch for snipers as they patrol a section of Metz, France, Nov. 28, 1944. (AP Photo)

Maj. Richard Bong (left) Popular, Wis., credited with 36 Japanese planes and Maj. Thomas McGuire, Ridgewood, N.J. fighter pilot with 28 planes to his...

Her flight deck buckled by the force of a torpedo explosion below and punctured by bombs from Yank dive bombers, a Zuiho class Japanese carrier maneuv...

Footballers pile up as Bill Paschal of the Giants carries the ball to Boston?s 8 inch line and with a hand on the local post tries to haul himself the...