AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

There's hardly any space left as these Douglas Dauntless dive bombers which do not have folding wings with Grumman Wildcats of the old non-folding win...

German troops in action somewhere on the western front in Belgium, 1944, as enemy spearheads were thrust in the Belgium-Luxembourg sector. (AP Photo)

Carrying rations for American fighting men, a mule pack train picks its way across a rocky slope, Nov. 28, 1943 somewhere in Italy. Supplies and ammun...

Men on board the U.S. flat-top are tense as a Dauntless dive-bomber roars into the take-off run for a blow against a Japanese base in the South Pacifi...

Seated at his desk in his New Guinea office is Lieut. Gen. George C. Kennedy, commander of the Fifth Air Force in Papua New Guinea, Oct. 20, 1943. Pla...

A humorous sign along a German supply road leading towards main fighting line somewhere in the eastern front, shown Oct. 12, 1943. It reads,

A flight of American Flying Fortress planes sails over the Japanese strong air base of Kahili on the island of Bougainville in the Northern Solomons,...

Its bomb bay doors still open, an Avenger, U.S. Navy torpedo bomber swings low to send its cargo of destruction over Tonolei Harbor, Japanese base on...

Sad faced Rabbis, members of the delegation of several hundred who came to the capital, listen intently as their petition, asking aid for persecuted J...

A small tanker is seen burning in the channel while a bomb has just hit near storage tanks on Wilkes Island in this photograph made during bombardment...

Out in a jungle clearing on Guadalcanal is this grave - the effort of an

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United States forces on Guadalcanal get the same order every day, every time they drive down this American-built road beneath this sign, seen Sept. 17...

Ships carrying mail are in constant danger of enemy attack, and intercepted mail is one of the most valuable prizes of raid. These clippings from the...

The flag whips in the breeze above an aircraft carrier's flight deck loaded with the Navy's new Grumman Hellcat fighter planes being readied for takeo...

As men and vehicles of the Fifth army pushed inland from this beach in the Salerno area, Italy, smoke from a string of bombs dropped by high flying Ge...

Shortly after landing on a nearby beach, these U.S. Fifth Army infantrymen march through the town of Salerno as they head for combat with Germans att...

Immediately after Munda in the central Solomons was captured by U.S. forces, members of the Seabees went to work cleaning things up, seen Sept. 14, 19...

After three days of fighting on the front lines on Munda, a Marine's tank crew take a rest, during which their machine guns are overhauled, Sept. 11,...

The Princesses Elizabeth, left, and Margaret Rose, right, daughters of King George and Queen Elizabeth of England, inspect tomatoes which they have gr...

Platoon Sgt. John Basilone the only Marine enlisted man wearing a Congressional Medal of Honor won in this war for killing 38 Japanese in Guadalcanal...

A formation of Flying Fortresses roars over the German Airfield at Amiens-Glisy, France in a raid, Aug. 31, 1943. Bomb bursts blanket the fighter plan...

Allied forces under German fire while landing at Salerno, Italy, in Sept. 1943. (AP Photo)

War Mobilization director James F. Byrnes told the nation in an address from Washington that he was authorized by President Roosevelt to say that

This is an aerial view of a beach in Sicily where American troops landed for the opening of the invasion of the island, showing the difficulties encou...

Lt. General George S. Patton, Jr. is shown in Sicily, Italy, July 26, 1943. (AP Photo)

A German crewman who was wounded when his U-boat was sunk is hoisted aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter that sank his vessel, July 20, 1943. (AP Photo...

Allied soldiers stand waist deep in water as they leave landing craft during the first day of the Sicilian invasion, July 10, 1943. In the foreground,...

Shirley Temple is shown demonstrating her knitting to Abbey Wilder, the girl whose role Shirley is to portray in the filming of the novel,

Opera singer Rise Stevens, who performed at Prague Opera House, Vienna State Opera, South America, Chicago and Hollywood, is photographed in New York...

Ship passengers shown leaving one of the station of the Cross at the Martyrs??? Shrine, Historic home of the Jesuit Martyrs of the 17th Century. The s...

This workman is directing the placing of steel tank treads at the Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, May 30, 1943. Soon they'll be placed on the h...

This is a general view of a Japanese relocation center, shown May 23, 1943 in Tule Lake, looking west. In foreground are chicken houses and pig pens....

A group of Axis prisoners march into an enclosure following the battle for Gabes Gap in Tunisia, on May 5, 1943. This is an official British photo. (A...

Japanese pilots get instructions aboard an aircraft carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, May 4, 1943, in this scene from a Japanese newsreel. I...

Japanese planes over Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor May 4, 1943, are shown in this scene from a Japanese newsreel. The film was obtained by...

These photos were made after Maj. Gen. James Doolittle?s bomber had crashed, on April 22, 1943 in China following the raid on Japanese cities. Maj. Ge...

These photos were made after Maj. Gen. James Doolittle?s bomber had crashed, on April 22, 1943 in China following the raid on Japanese cities: Air vie...

These photos were made after Maj. Gen. James Doolittle?s bomber had crashed, on April 22, 1943 in China following the raid on Japanese cities. Part of...

A British Bren gun carrier leads 2,000 Italian prisoners to the rear of the British Eighth Army???s lines following the flanking movement to El Hamma...

Orders in his hand, Capt. Marc A. Mitscher, skipper of the U.S.S. Hornet, discusses details for the takeoff of army bombers for the Tokyo raid with Ma...

These are captured German tanks southwest of Stalingrad, shown April 14, 1943. (AP Photo)

Tony Garcci of Richmond, Va., determined to plant a Victory Garden despite the shortages of farmhands and horsepower, works the plow being pulled by h...

More than 2,600 new American soldiers of Japanese ancestry were honored in farewell ceremonies at the Iolani Palace grounds, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2...

The frozen corpses of German soldiers dot the area around Stalingrad in Volgograd, Russia, March 26, 1943, after the Russian offensive lifted the Nazi...

Technical Sgt. R.W. Greenwood, a Marine, sits in the cockpit of a Grumman Wildcat fighter plane, based at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, that is credit...

American and Filipino troops emerge from a tunnel to surrender at Corregidor, Philippines, March 19, 1943. Japanese at right, foreground, grins as sie...

Residents make use of wide parking strips in Portland, Ore., to plant rows of peas, onions, spinach and other garden vegetables, shown March 12, 1943....

A sailor aboard a U.S. destroyer somewhere in the Pacific paints another Japanese flag on the windshield around the wing of the bridge, March 2, 1943....

Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, left, holds a pigeon, as Princess Margaret Rose watches prior to its liberation, Feb. 20, 1943. The pigeon carrie...