AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

American soldiers check for identification on the bodies of dead U.S. troops shot by the Germans near Malmedy, Belgium, Jan. 1945 during World War II'...

Shirley Temple, left, and her school chum, Joyce Agar, arrive for the press preview of

Chechen men look at an un-exploded Russian bomb near their house in Argun, 9 miles (15 km) East of Grozny, in the break-away republic of Chechnya, aft...

GI looks at corpses of American soldiers killed in Cold Blood by fire from German tank in Belgium on Dec. 17, 1944 after they had been captured. (AP P...

An American GI looks at corpses of American soldiers killed in cold blood by fire from German tanks in Belgium, shown Dec. 17, 1944. (AP Photo)

Sir Howard Florey, co-discoverer of the drug penicillin, is seen after his arrival in Sydney, NSW, Australia, after an inspection tour of a military h...

Three discoverers of penicillin were announced in Stockholm as winners of the 1945 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine, Oct. 25, 1945. From left:...

Dr. Ernst Chain is shown in his Oxford lab, Oct. 27, 1944. He is trying to make synthetic penicillin. (AP Photo)

Shirley Temple tries out the big four-engine Army transport C-54 which she had just christened with a pat and a kiss, at the Douglas plant, Oct. 12, 1...

Grand old man of the Greek Army is Colonel Nicolas Papadopoulos commander of the Third Brigade, who has served 35 years in the Greek armed forces. He...

British military vehicles are cheered by crowds as they pass the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, along the Rue Royale, in Brussels, on Sept. 9, 1944. (AP...

British military vehicles are cheered by crowds as they pass along the Rue Royale, in Brussels, on Sept. 9, 1944. (AP Photo)

British armoured troops passing through Arras, in France, on Sept. 3, 1944. (AP Photo)

Curly-haired, dimpled Shirley Temple, now quite a young lady, is shown with Sherman Billingsley of the Stork Club, Aug. 31, 1944 outside the club, aft...

Shown in photo is Nelson Potter- Pitcher- St. Louis Browns shown August 10, 1944. (AP Photo)

This photo was made by a Lockheed lightning photo reconnaissance unit on the morning of D-Day, showing the typical terrain, August 8, 1944 of Normandy...

Princess Elizabeth of England (right) helps wash the dishes after an outdoor meal which she helped cook during a visit to a Girl Guides camp in Englan...

Chinese soldiers are seen at the Salween river front, in the Yunnan province of Southwest China, on July 14, 1944. (AP Photo)

With a canvas tarpaulin providing the church and packing cases as an altar, a Navy chaplain celebrates the first Mass for Marines, June 30, 1944 at Sa...

A Palestinian policeman shake hands with Palestinian prisoners just released from an Israeli jail as they cross into the Gaza Strip via the Nahal Oz c...

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Princess Elizabeth, right, and Princess Margaret sit in their carriage before the start of the Windsor Royal Horse at which they both won cups, May 27...

Princess Elizabeth talks with a sergeant major during her inspection of the Grenadier Guards on May 17, 1944 somewhere in England. The Princess is a...

Very much a grown-up young lady on her 16th birthday, Shirley Temple proudly holds the little dress she wore in her first picture,

Norman Corwin, brilliant writer of radio shows, is shown hunched over his typewriter as he ponders over a script for one of his Tuesday night broadcas...

Princess Elizabeth of England, in the uniform of a Ranger, takes the salute from the

Frank Mancuso Catcher, March 31, 1944 in St. Louis (AP Photo)

Like everyone young or old, screen star Shirley Temple enjoys foraging in the ice box between meals in Hollywood, shown March 27, 1944. Shirley will b...

A view of the crow of refugees on the pier on March 4, 1944 at Haifa after being removed from landing craft. (AP Photo)

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret are shown in Pantomime, Feb. 1, 1944. (AP Photo)

Some of 40,000 who saw pro title game here are some of the estimated 40,000 persons who Jammed Wrigley field, Dec. 26, 1943 in Chicago to see the bear...

Part of the Babi Yar ravine on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine where the advancing Red Army unearthed the bodies of 14,000 civilians killed by fleeing...

Photo shows a group of Negro troops gathered around a phonograph which they bought from their company fund. They have over a hundred swing records, an...

Anxious and happy faces mark the digest moment of the week on a U.S. warship ??" the distribution of the mail on Sept. 1, 1943. (AP Photo)

Mary Pickford places the last section in the model of the S.S. Henry M. Robinson, first complete ship entirely paid for by war bonds purchased by Cals...

This picture of the German fog-throwing rocket gun appeared in the ??sIllustrierter Beobachter,??? published in Munich. The caption says ??sOrder for...

England's pretty Princess Elizabeth is in her eighteenth year and a wealth of conjecture and rumor is a foot as to whom Elizabeth will marry. The best...

Shirley Temple and Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, vice-chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, teamed up at California Shipbuilding Corp. in Los An...

Noe Vasquez, left, 18, and Joe Vasquez, 18, unrelated to Noe, reported to Los Angeles, Calif., police they were seized by sailors who tore peg-topped...

Donald Jackson, 20-year-old sailor was slashed across the abdomen and forehead by four Zoot-suited youths, June 8, 1943 in Los Angeles, Calif. during...

There was considerable mutual curiosity when these two fifteen-year olds, Abbey Landon Wilder, left, and Shirley Temple met on a Hollywood lot., May 2...

When Harry Hopkins and his wife Louise, who live at the White House with his daughter, Diana, strolled out on the White House lawn in Washington, May...

Princess Elizabeth, who is a colonel of the Grenadier Guards, pays a visit to an armored battalion of her regiment in the southern command of England...

Princess Elizabeth, who has just observed her 17th Birthday, is shown at the saluting base during a full inspection of an armored battalion of her reg...

Three army aviation cadets in training Herbert Sohopka, left, as Walter Hawkins, center, and J.C. Davidson, meet Fala, right, Pres. Franklin D. Roosev...

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...

Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, pointed a professional finger at his office in Ebbetts Field, Jan. 8, 1943, Brooklyn, N.Y. when he s...

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Viola Gregg is shown in this 1943 photo. She married. Anthony Liuzzo, her second husband. She was shot to death while en route to Montgomery, Al...

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt plays with is pet Scotch terrier Fala, at the White House, 1943, Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)