AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

The Royal families were guests at the wedding of the Duke of Northumberland and Lady Elizabeth Montagu-Douglas-Scott on June 12, 1946 at Westminster A...

Two days after their arrival in Palestine on the motor vessel Havina Reik, with 470 Illegal Jewish Immigrants, these women (above), are given a medica...

Carrying 470 illegal Jewish Immigrants from undisclosed European ports, the motor vessel Haviva Reik, docks, on June 8, 1946 at Haifa, Palestine, unde...

A feature of the automotive Golden Jubilee is the auto shows in which are the contrasting cars of today and yesterday. The event, taking place on June...

Soft coal mine workers going to work in the Willow Grove Mine of the Hanna Coal Company, near St. Clairsville, Ohio, ride in coal cars known as ??sman...

Princess Elizabeth, left, of England, in a Guides uniform, and Princess Margaret, right, in a Sea Rangers uniform, watch a parade in Hyde Park, May 19...

Princess Elizabeth (right), 20, and Margaret, 15, ride at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, residence of Britain's Royal family on May 9, 1946. P...

Lt. Col. John Sharp (left), Terre Haute, Ind., and Col. R.E. Honsowetz, Spokane, Wash., inspects 37MM guns at Chinwangtao, China, on May 3, 1946, part...

Shirley Temple, celebrating her 18th birthday, April 23, 1946, watches a model schoolhouse burn at a studio party given in her honor in Hollywood. The...

Princess Elizabeth of England waves her acknowledgment of the ovation accorded her by crowds outside the Nottingham Town Hall on April 3, 1946 in Nott...

A high-brimmed hat of grey, matches her grey coat, is worn by Princess Elizabeth during her 200 mile tour of towns and villages in Northern Ireland on...

Shown in photo is Augie Galan Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder shown March 5, 1946. (AP Photo)

Princess Elizabeth of England talks to Private Rupert John Worth during a visit to Bedford, England on Feb. 14, 1946. Worth was a prisoner of war in S...

Princess Elizabeth (center) chats with the Drum Major (right) of the Royal Sussex Cadets, who played the Royal Salute on her arrival at the Dome at Br...

Both Sgt. Walter Grimes of the White House police and Shirley Temple, film star, smile as she leaves the White House, Nov. 30, 1945 in Washington afte...

Shirley Temple, right, screen actress, and magistrate Anna Cross, center, of New York, leave the White House in Washington, D.C., Nov. 30, 1945 after...

Here is part of the 87,000 spectators in the Los Angeles Coliseumm Nov. 17, 1945, one of the nation???s biggest football crowds this season, who watch...

Princess Elizabeth, left, wears a left halo hat trimmed with flower designs and a checked dress at the wedding of Miss Diana Piers Legh and the Earl o...

Carroll Widdees, Ohio State, left, and Bernie Bierman, Minnesota, friendly discussion on eve of Copher-Buckeye tilt in Minneapolis, Oct. 27, 1945. (AP...

Ex-Premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval, right, blindfolded and hands tied behind his back faces the firing squad in the Prison Yard, at Fresnes Priso...

Dr. Ernest Boris Chain of the School of Pathology, Oxford, is shown Oct. 5, 1945. He played a very large part in the isolation of pencillin. A realiz...

Shirley Temple shows her engagement ring to Howard Greer, owner of a dress shop in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sept. 10, 1945, when the young actress visit...

Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu sign Japanese Instrument of Surrender, a document signed on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on...

Team-mates of Bert Shepard, relief Hurler on the Washington staff and former Army Combat Pilot, admire the distinguished Flying Bross awarded Shepard...

Other scene of wreckage is the former hunting lodge ??sKaren Hall??? owned by Hermann Goering. These are the first pictures to be made on the wreckage...

Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, is seen as he disembarked from the Queen Mary on his arrival in England, Aug. 11, 1945. (AP Photo...

An MP is shown about to enter a house of prostitiution to make any arrests, Aug. 11, 1945 in Nuremberg. (AP Photo/Bill Allen)

Despite the fact that it looks as if Bud Metheny (3), Yankee outfielder, had just belted Yank catcher Bill Drescher, foreground, and Detroit catcher B...

Princess Elizabeth passes through a guard of honor during her visit to the Royal College of Nursing where she presided over a meeting of the Student N...

Conning tower and ??sschnorkle??? on U-234 tied up at Portsmouth, N.H. Navy yard on June 21, 1945. (AP Photo/Goshtigan)

A young German boy, crying as he is being dusted during a delousing process on June 18, 1945 at Koblenz, Germany. (AP Photo)

Shirley Temple, passing another milestone in her career, proudly holds her high school diploma, awarded, June 13, 1945, during commencement exercises...

Shirley Temple, second from left, joins her classmates at Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles in singing

Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, left; Sir Alexander Fleming, developer of the medical usage of penic...

Princess Elizabeth, right, and Princess Margaret Rose arrive at the National Gallery, May 17, 1945, London, England. They arrived for the visit to the...

Miners in Pittsburgh, Pa., stay on the job after the announcement of the Nazi surrender, May 8, 1945. They smile and give the V??? sign on their way t...

A Japanese suicide plane which headed for a British aircraft carrier in Pacific off the southern Ryukyus Islands, blows up after it hit the flight dec...

This is the family of Fala, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelts pet Scottie, April 14, 1945, Rhinebeck, N.Y. The dogs from left to right are Buttons (Mrs. Fa...

This is the family of Fala, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelts pet Scottie, April 14, 1945, Rhinebeck, N.Y. The dogs from left to right are Buttons (Mrs. Fa...

PFO John C. Thompson, Monessen, Pa. mans a machine gun with the seventh US Army on the west bank off the Rhine. At his side, aiming rifle, is PFO. Wil...

A long lien of liberated civilians, who were used as slave laborers on March 24, 1945 in Germany, waits for food at a displaced persons center shortly...

Shirley Temple, film actress, is the center of attraction during luncheon at the Brown Derby, March 24, 1945 in Hollywood. Her luncheon companions are...

The main entrance to the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, which is comparatively undamaged, is shown in 1945. Most of the damage is higher up and piles...

Frank Mancuso, Catcher, Mar. 13, 1945 in St. Louis, Missouri. (AP Photo)

Major Richard Bong, leading U.S. flying ace in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, tells the servicemen at the Hollywood Canteen of his experiences. Th...

Meeting on the grounds of the Livadia palace, Yalta, on Feb. 16, 1945 in the Crimea, for their important conferences shown in photo from left to right...

President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin, accompanied by Foreign Secretaries, Chiefs of Staff and other Advisors, met at Yalta...

For the first time in her long movie career, Shirley Temple gets kissed in grown-up fashion by Jerry Shane, an ex-Marine from Grand Rapids, Mich., who...

The scorched body of a dead German, who was killed during the unsuccessful German siege of Bastogne, Belgium, lies in the snow-covered field just outs...

An American tank remains behind to guard German prisoners taken during the drive to relieve the besieged American forces at Bastogne, Belgium, Jan. 6,...