AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Princess Elizabeth, right, and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose of Great Britain watch their carrier pigeon circle in the sky after they have libera...

Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, center, releases a carrier pigeon bearing a message of greeting to Lady Baden Powel as her sister, Princess Marga...

After a successful South Pacific patrol job, this U.S. submarine surfaced at an unnamed port for an overhaul, Feb. 9, 1943. Members of the crew test...

Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, commander of U.S. troops in the Sanananda sector of New Guinea, holds a big cup of tea at a collecting station on...

Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), back in his office after a two-hour address in the house still waves his arms excitedly as he continues his attack on what...

Don Hutson reaches up to snare a pass, Green Bay Packers, shown on Jan. 27, 1943. (AP Photo)

Princesses Elizabeth, left, and Margaret Rose sign their one-pound savings certificates after buying the first two as they were made available to the...

Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, commander of United States troops in the China, Burma, and India sectors of the war, signs an order at his headquarter...

Princess Elizabeth, center, ties knots under the watchful eyes of an expert at Buckingham Palace, Jan 9, 1943, London, England. The white stripes on h...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret Rose were photographed as they signed their savings certificates after purchasing them, Jan. 9, 1943....

Colon Theater, one of the world's great operas houses, in Buenos Aires, on Dec. 8, 1942. For the last three or four years when more and more Am...

Colon Theater, one of the world's great operas houses, in Buenos Aires, on Dec. 8, 1942. For the last three or four years when more and more Am...

Aircraft guns, with six of them pointing skyward as they might appear in action against a high-flying enemy bomber, are shown in this view of the fina...

Dr. Enrico Fermi, leader of the group of scientists who succeeded in initiating the first man-made nuclear chain reaction, is seen Dec. 2, 1942. (AP P...

Don Hutson (left), Green Bay Packers end who befuddled pass defenses by pretending to let the whole thing go and then starting a winning sprint for th...

Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, left, and Major General Claire Chennault are shown at an airfield in China in 1943. Stilwell wears his usual campa...

Against the withering fire of the numerous Japanese machine guns in pillboxes, bunkers, and dugouts on Tarawa, the U.S. Marines scamper up and over th...

A poster by artist Victor Keppler, asking Americans to help support the war effort by buying war bonds, is shown in 1943. (AP Photo)

GIs waits for expected German counterattack in Salerno, Italy beachhead in 1943. (AP Photo)

French African natives rounded up by American soldiers after the landing at Fedala, Morocco, Nov. 27, 1942. (AP Photo)

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...

The stern of the Samuel Very is lowered into place during the pre-fabrication of the ship, Nov. 15, 1942, in Alameda, California. (AP Photo)

Camouflaged so that he blends into the jungle background, Tony DiCristopo of Pennsylvania, is a crack U.S. Marine sniper giving the Japanese a headach...

Through the Sandy Soil of Guadalcanal Island, U.S. Marine Corps tanks rumble forward toward the front to help ground forces turn back counter-attackin...

These Japanese prisoners were among those captured by U.S. forces on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, shown Nov. 5, 1942. (AP Photo)

It took some stretching, but thanks to the efforts of Mr. Harry Truman and a grinning policeman, young Nick Hosler got to shake hands with president o...

These dead Japanese near their machine gun were slain by U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal, shown Oct. 27, 1942 in Solomons Island. (AP Photo)

On the shore of Guadalcanal Island, U.S. Marines count Japanese dead after the Marines drove onto the island to take the strategic airport area, Oct....

George Halas, left, 45, owner-coach of the Chicago Bears, world champion professional football team, shown on Oct. 22, 1942, gives instructions just b...

Bofors guns used by the Army and Navy are shown lined up at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1942. In the background, gun mou...

The Nazi censor approved caption to this picture states that it shows British Prisoners captured during the Dieppe Raid, being marched off to internme...

Japanese military press officer Matsuda reads the news of the fall of Singapore to U.S. prisoners of war in Shanghai, China, Sept. 10, 1942. (AP Photo...

Maj. James P. Devereaux, left, and Raymond R. Rutledge of San Francisco receive radios in Washington given U.S. internees in a Shanghai prison camp, S...

Two U.S. fighter planes fly over a burning Japanese ship, center, during the battle of Midway, Sept. 7, 1942. Under the incessant pounding of American...

Lamar Davis, wingback for the University of Georgia football team, gets his first light workout in a practice session, as the Bulldogs new season gets...

U.S. Marines with full battle kits charge ashore on Guadalcanal Island from a landing barge during the early phase of the U.S. offensive in the Solomo...

Corregidor Island fortress in Manila Bay, Philippines, is shown, Aug. 26, 1942. (AP Photo)

Princess Margaret Rose, left, points to an interesting feature of a book held by her sister, Princess Elizabeth, as the children of the King and Queen...

Men are shown in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, after the surrender of American defenders of Corregidor in the Philippines, Aug. 1942. Major Genera...

This is the Havoc caused at Tanambogo Island by the Pacific fleet bombardment and aerial attack which preceded the landing operations of U.S. Marines...

The Japanese flag flies over the entrance to the Mariveles naval base in the Philippines, Aug. 1, 1942, after Japanese occupation. (AP Photo)

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Seventeen-year-old Wesley van Apedale receives instructions from Sgt. Schuyle Deen of the First Fighter Command at Shohola, Penn., observation post, J...

The new and improved M4 Sherman Tank during final trials at a firing range, somewhere in America, on July 20, 1942. (AP Photo)

In a section of the huge interior of Ford's Willow Run bomber plant, workmen produce the center wing of the B-24, July 11, 1942. Sections of the bomb...

Shirley Temple, right, the screen's most famous child star of a few years ago and now an active radio star, visits Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, Jul...

Marjorie Dowd registers with air raid wardens in the Savin Hill section of Dorchester, Mass., so that a warden will meet her on arrival from town whil...

Somewhere at the Libyan front, Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel (center) stalks through desert village, accompanied by Field Marshal Albert Kesserli...

Flying dangerously close, a U.S. Navy photographer got this spectacular aerial view of a heavy Japanese cruiser of the Mogima class, demolished by Nav...

Full length swing showing his stance after the finish of a swing Paul Waner, Boston Braves outfielder, shown on June 16, 1942. (AP Photo)