AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt is shown with New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as she assists him with Civil Defense work in New York, Sept. 29, 1941....

Princess Margaret Rose, left, and Princess Elizabeth, right, watch the proceedings at Balmoral Castle as their father, King George inspects a Canadian...

700 die in air raid shelter after the Japanese bombed Chunking, China, July 1941. (AP Photo)

Sally Eilers wears vivid crimson feather flowers for an evening headdress, and a beautiful diamond and ruby flower bracelet, and ear-clips, while dini...

German troops enter Minsk, capital of White Russia, June 9, 1941. (AP Photo)

A direct hit blasts the 5,000-ton German battleship Bismarck shortly before it sank in the Atlantic 400 miles West of Brest, France, following a 1,750...

Charles A. Lindbergh speaks at the America First rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, May 23, 1941. (AP Photo)

Firemen spraying a hose on a smoldering building in the London are after a bombing, May 11, 1941. (AP Photo)

Another victim of cold and hunger in Shanghai, China, meets his end in the pine coffin of the Shanghai Benevolent Cemetery, Feb. 6, 1941. Children wa...

St. Paul's Cathedral still stands supreme, due to heroic efforts of London firemen during the Blitz by the German Air Force, Jan. 22, 1941. (AP Photo)

A crew of observers on the Empire State building is shown during the air defense tests begun, Jan. 21, 1941 in New York by the U.S. Army. Their job i...

Representatives of both the CIO Farm Equipment Workers organizing committee and an independent union picketed the East Moline, Ill., works of the Inte...

A young Communist member of army youth group holds the national flag before hoisting it to the top of the hall, background, where Defense of Yenan mee...

Panoramic view taken from the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London after the fire blitz of the Nazis, Jan. 15, 1941. (AP Photo)

Fred Newman, Tennessee Fullback, found himself surrounded in the first period of the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 1941 so he flew up and over...

This pass from Navy's Bill Busik (63), at extreme right, to Everett Malcolm (4), at extreme left, put the ball on Army's 18-yard line, Nov. 30, 1940,...

Photo shows Richard I. Bong, in 1941 as air cadet in training at Tulare, Calif. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Homer Norton Texas aggie coach shown in 1941. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Homer Norton Texas aggie coach shown in 1941. (AP Photo)

Sally Eilers wears vivid crimson feather flowers for an evening headdress, and a beautiful diamond and ruby flower bracelet, and ear-clips, while dini...

A German ME 109 Messerschmitt pursuit plane, right, chases a British Spitfire over English territory, 1941. (AP Photo)

Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, holds in his hand part of a white book he says contains evidence...

Confetti showers down on Wendell L. Willkie, standing in car, Republican presidential nominee, as he paraded in an open car down Olive Street, Oct. 17...

Plane drops bombs over its aim in England was taken during a recent attack on Sept. 20, 1940. (AP Photo)

Fires raged in the city of London after a lone German Bombing plane had dropped incendiary bombs close to the heart of the city. At the right is the d...

Slovak leader Dr. Joseph Tiso is welcomed by German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, at his arrival by train at the railway station in Salzbur...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret, daughters of King George of England, ride in a pony cart at a country residence where they are stayin...

Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is shown, July 2, 1940. (AP Photo)

Palace of Ministers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 26, 1940. (AP Photo)

William C. Durant, who used to be called a financial Wizard, a Midas who could make money when others couldn?t, who amassed a $120,000,000 fortune in...

Photo shows, the man who sold his country, Norway, to the Nazis. Quisling was the man who was appointed head of the short-lived Nazi government in Nor...

Chairman Martin Dies, center, (D-Tex.) is shown in his Washington, D.C., office, April 6, 1940 with his committee's two agents who were ordered arrest...

Chairman Martin Dies, center, (D-Tex.) is shown in his Washington, D.C., office, April 6, 1940 with his committee's two agents who were ordered arrest...

Retrieving a rebound from the board, Bob Doll (5) of the Colorado University Quintet, leaps high into the air during play in the championship round of...

German actress Marlene Dietrich and her former lover Erich Maria Remarque, are pictured at the premiere of the movie

Amid the blare of martial music and cheers of thousands, Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), center, without hat, strode to the rostrum of Madison Square Garde...

This is the probable starting lineup the Navy will use against Army in the traditional service grid battle in Philadelphia. They are shown as they tur...

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

Members of the British War Cabinet before a meeting in London, on Nov. 8, 1939. Standing from left to right; Sir John Anderson, Minister for Home Secu...

This unusual action picture of a Green Bay Packers Detroit Lions pro Football Game at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Oct. 22, 1939, can be turned into a gue...

Tribute was paid to postmaster general James A. Farley (right) by President Franklin Roosevelt, as the chief executive greeted 4000 of the nation's po...

Billy Myers, Cincinnati Reds shortstop, is out at second in third inning of first game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Oct. 4, 1939. Frank Crosetti fi...

Dewitt Clinton Cook, right, 20-year-old mechanic, is shown on trial in Los Angeles, on a charge of bludgeoning to death Anya Sosovena, former Follies...

In a message delivered in person to an extraordinary joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21, 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing Congress on Sept. 21, 1939. Behind the president at right is Vice President John Nance Garner and at left...

President Franklin Roosevelt, with his mother, Sara, on his arm, is shown as he left the little Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, N.Y., on Sept. 10, 1939...

Delia Bogard, who was clubbed and seriously injured in Los Angeles, a month after Anya Sosoyeva was slain, met the man police said confessed to killin...

Dewitt Clinton Cook, left, who deputy district attorney U.U. Blalock said confessed slaying Anya Sosoyeva, was confronted by a club, pair of canvas sn...

In the early morning in Tel Aviv, the S.S. Parita, with 700 Jewish refugees on board, was beached opposite the Ritz Hotel in Tel Aviv, the all-Jewish...

Polish lancers charge over a hedge, July 31, 1939. (AP Photo)