AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Automobiles crowd Peachtree Street and spectators throng the middle walks in front of the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Dec. 8, 1946, after a fire swept...

A fireman, flashlight in hand, hunts through a fire-blackened room in Winecoff Hotel, Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7, 1946, the scene of fire in which more than...

Firemen wade and wend their way through the water-drenched lobby of Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Dec. 7, 1946, fighting fire that took lives of two scor...

This is a general view of the Winecoff Hotel at Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7, 1946 as firemen and rescue workers search the gutted interior of the hotel for...

Princess Margaret Rose, King George VI of England, and Princess Elizabeth (standing, left to right) examine a book with Queen Elizabeth (seated) on De...

Eunice Kennedy (right), daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Former United States Ambassador to England, is greeted by her sister, Patricia Kennedy (left),...

Walt Disney, the celebrated movie cartoon artist is seen with his wife on arrival aboard ??sQueen Elizabeth??? at Southampton, United Kingdom, England...

Yawkey Sees His Club in World Series Owner Tom Yawkey (left) of the Boston Red Sox sees his club in World Series competition on Oct. 6, 1946, sitting...

Wirephoto facilities are set up in Yankee Stadium for the 1949 World Series games, shown Oct. 6, 1949. Above are editor Pat McDonald, left, at typewri...

The three plane formation, attached to the aerial sign throughout the takeoff run, lifts the banner into the air, Aug. 24, 1946 in Los Angeles. The si...

Shown in photo is Clyde (bulldog) Turner center for Chicago Bears in training camp at Renssalaer, Ind., on August 8, 1946. (AP Photo)

Shown in an undated photo of Lt. Gen. Phra Ram Intra (above) director general of Police in Siam, Thailand, July 4, 1946, examines the gun which result...

Lt. Gen. Phra Ram Intra, director general of Police in Siam, Thailand, July 4, 1946, examines the gun which resulted in the death of 20-year old King...

Holman Williams, middleweight is in training at Pompton Lakes on June 5, 1946, who is going to France to fight. (AP Photo)

George Robson, driving a Thorne Special, flashes across the finish line at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to win the 30th renewal of the classic, May...

George Robson gets a big kiss from his wife as he sits in his Thorne Special after inning the 500-mile race at Indianapolis Speedway, May 30, 1946. Wi...

Diesel-electric locomotive of State Belt Line, which operates along San Francisco's waterfront, and is not affected by the railroad strike, continued...

Capt. Lou Zamperini, former track star who survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific and then many months in a Japanese prison camp, smiles at his bri...

Child actor Bobby Driscoll feeds a black lamb on which Walt Disney won a 100-to-1 gamble with nature. Needing a new-born black lamb for a new movie ??...

Capt. Lou Zamperini, former track star who survived 47 days on a life raft in the Pacific after the crash of his bomber, greets his bride-to-be, Miss...

President Theodore Roosevelt, center, is shown aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower with, left to right: Russian chairman of the Committee of Minis...

Entrance Hall (above) of Kenilworth, 50-room, 370-acre estate on April 17, 1946 at Glen Gove, long Island, New York, bought by Soviet Purchasing Commi...

Runner???s toe the starting line as Capt. Louis S. Zamperini (standing behind) prepares to start the field in the special invitation mile run named in...

Japanese male dance hall dancers in kimonos perform a polka-like dance with their partners, Feb. 23, 1946. Men are required to take hot baths prior t...

Jim Conzelman, second from left, who will be head coach of the Chicago Cardinals professional football team in 1946, is greeted in New York City, Jan....

Shown in photo is Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty Primat of Hungary, 1946 (AP Photo)

A Japanese child laden with bundles and carrying her tiny brother on her back crosses a pier in Busan, Korea, with other burdened Japanese being repat...

James Stewart is shown in a scene from

As the trial progresses the defendants adopt many different attitudes. Here Goering rests a worried-looking face on his arms. Hess, looking gaunt and...

Ceremonies were held at Tacloban, Leyte, in commemoration of the first anniversary of the landing of American troops on Philippine soil, on Oct. 20, 1...

Joan Blondell, of the screen, smiles broadly as producer Joseph Schenck gives her a bit of advice about the horses running in the next race at Hollywo...

Byron Nelson, (above) of Toledo, Ohio, posted a card of 259 in the Seattle $10,000 open on Oct. 14, 1945, to set a new world???s mark for 72 holes in...

Capt. Louis Zamperini (right), Torrence, Calif., former track star, who was adrift 47 days in Pacific after bombing mission against Japs presumed dead...

Liberated slave workers outside a factory mess hall in Germany on Sept. 19, 1945. This underground factory is captured by the 2nd Battalion 311th Infa...

The Zamperini family prepares to play the favorite recording, ??sAlways,??? of Louis Zamperini at Torrance, Calif., on Sept. 9, 1945 after learning th...

Actually the only transportation in Tokyo, outside and street cars, are either hand drawn or drawn. Here some Japanese soldiers pull a cart through a...

President Truman (center), points to the Japanese signatures on surrender documents received at the White House in Washington on Sept. 7, 1945. In gro...

The American flag, first to fly over Tokyo since the Japanese surrender, is raised over the Nippon News building in downtown Tokyo on Sept. 5, 1945 by...

Crew members of the Enola Gray, B-29 Superfortress from which the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima are shown Aug. 17, 1945, from left to rig...

Leo Meyer, left, Texas Christian University football coach, and M.H. Palrang, right of Boys Town, Nebraska, both instructors in the Texas high school...

This is an aerial view of the aftermath of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crate...

This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crater, ten feet d...

A B-29 burns furiously after an emergency landing of Iwo Jima, Japan on July 9, 1945, while returning from a raid on the Japanese Mainland. Army Air F...

Preceded by a priest, two U.S. military policemen escort Peter Kohn, one of three Germans condemned to death for killing an American Airman in the fir...

Three German civilians, the first war criminals to be tried in Germany, were hanged at dawn on June 29, 1945 at the military prison at Rheinbach. All...

Three German civilians, the first war criminals to be tried in Germany, were hanged at dawn on June 29, 1945 at the military prison at Rheinbach, Germ...

An American MP places a hood over the head of Peter Kohn, one of three German hanged at dawn on June 29, 1945 in Rheinbach, Germany, after being convi...

Peter Back, one of three Germans hanged at dawn on June 29, 1945 at Rheinbach, Germany for killing an American flier, hangs dead from a scaffold. (AP...

Peter Back, one of three Germans hanged at dawn on June 29, 1949 in Rheinbach, Germany, after being convicted of killing an American airman, kisses a...

German prisoners of war at Halloran Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., on June 26, 1945 view a film showing the atrocities the Germans committed in Europe...