AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

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

Queen Elizabeth of England pets ??sPeter???, a collie member of the famous dog rescue squad which figured in V-Bomb incidents, as Princess Elizabeth,...

The Memorial Coliseum trembled and roared as an army attack with tanks and land mines was simulated and B-29s droned overhead in honor of Gen. George...

This is a general night view of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, June 9, 1945 during pageant honoring Generals George S. Patton Jr., and James H. Doolit...

First German civilians go on trial for murdering American Airman. The three prisoners from left to right Peter Kohn, Matthias Gierens and Matthias Kre...

First German civilians go on trial for murdering American Airman. The three prisoners from left to right Peter Kohn, Matthias Gierens and Matthias Kre...

Golf champion Byron Nelson, Fort Worth, Tex., Born on Feb. 4, 1912. Leading money winner in Pro Golf, 1944 received ??sAthlete of Year??? award fro...

The first appearance of the new flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic shown May 23, 1945. (AP Photo)

Nazi S.S. women remove bodies of their victims of the concentration camp at Belsen, Germany on April 28, 1945, from trucks in which they are transport...

Nazi S.S. women remove bodies of their victims of the concentration camp at Belsen, Germany, April 28, 1945, from trucks in which they are transported...

Armored forces of the second British army, fanning out on the Westphalian plain, were by March 31st, 70 miles beyond the Rhine, a security silence sti...

British sappers of the second Army test the area around a road block for possible mines, before advancing through the German town of Emmerich, forcing...

Although our troops reached outskirts of Bocholt last night, the town is by no means clear. Heavy opposition is being encountered from fanatical troop...

An exhibition of photographs of the evolution of the modern American dance during the past ten years is shown for the first time anywhere at the Museu...

U.S. Army truck is loaded with liberated Russian, Polish and Ukrainian slave laborers in a German town on March 8, 1945. Formerly forced workers for t...

A marine fighter is silhouetted against a cloud of smoke and stone dust as Yanks Blast Japs hiding in caves on the northern ridges of Iwo Jima, Japan...

Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal (left), and Lt. Gen. Holland Smith, commander of Marines in the Pacific, stand on Feb. 23, 1945 at a ship???s ra...

Near a truck on an Iwo Jima road in Japan on Feb. 20, 1945, Jap soldiers with field packs scatter for cover, as an American plane comes in low to stra...

Lillian Hellman, American playwright whose most recent play, ??sThe Searching Wind,??? has just ended its Broadway run, is seen at work in her hotel r...

Sgt. Mel Allen, former Columbia Broadcasting System Sports Director and announcer. Allen was in Atlanta to attend meeting of the Atlanta Touchdown...

Zino Francescatti, French violinist from New York, displays the unusual light colored grain of his genuine Stradivarius violin made in 1727, Oct. 26,...

An American soldier passes the body of dead German soldier in a street in Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 25, 1944.

A lone American soldier makes his way along a street through piles of rubble, in Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 25, 1944. (AP Photo/Staff/Carroll)

American troops, left, outside the Quellenhof palace Hotel, in Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 25, 1944. The building was used as the Nazi headquarters in th...

An American patrol advances along a thorough fare in the village of Pawling cleaning out the last of the enemy from the area on Oct. 24, 1944. (AP Pho...

A squad of German soldiers march through a street in Paris, France, Oct. 24, 1940, whilst others walk along looking at the shops. (AP Photo)

Large Nazi flags fly from an occupied building in Paris, France, on Oct. 24, 1940. (AP Photo)

A reconstructed German Robot Bomb, put together from salvaged party by the Air Technical Command at Wright Field, Ohio on Oct. 23, 1944, is given a fl...

People queue patiently at a soup kitchen hoping for a ration of food, near the Church of Sacre Coeur, Paris, on Oct. 22, 1940. (AP Photo)

A pavement cafe in Paris, France, on Oct. 22, 1940, whose clientele is now mostly German officers. (AP Photo)

A German soldier buys fruit and vegetables at a grocers shop in Paris, France, on Oct. 22, 1940. (AP Photo)

German officers are the only sightseers outside the Church of Sacre Coeur, Paris, on Oct. 22, 1940. (AP Photo)

American troops inspect houses in a burned out village near Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 17, 1944, as the Allies push further into Germany. (AP PHoto)

A long line of German refugees trudge through the streets of Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 16, 1944, as they head for the safety behind Allied lines. (AP P...

A white flag is displayed outside a home in a village near Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 16, 1944, as Allied troops push on through the area. (AP Photo)

An American jeep passes through the breach in the Siegfried Line, near Aachen, Grmany, on Oct. 16, 1944. (AP Photo)

A long line of German refugees trudge through the outskirts of Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 16, 1944, as they head for the safety behind Allied lines. (AP...

An Allied tank is seen rumbles through a street littered with debris, in the heavily damaged city of Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 15, 1944. (AP Photo)

American troops shelter behind fallen debris from wrecked buildings as they look for German snipers on a main street in Aachen, Germany, Oct. 15, 1944...

American troops cautiously enter one of the battered railway stations in Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 15, 1944, searching for pockets of resisting German...

American troops patrol amongst piles of debris from wrecked buildings in a street in Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 15, 1944. (AP Photo)

American troops build a shelter from fallen debris from wrecked buildings as they look for German snipers on a main street in Aachen, Germany, Oct. 15...

American troops look at a railway bridge, that has been detroyed during an air attack, that blocks a main road in Aachen, Germany, on Oct. 14, 1944. (...

American troops shelter behind fallen debris from wrecked buildings as they look for German snipers on the main street in Aachen, Germany, Oct. 14, 19...

Ambulances of the United States Army Medical Corps in France are washed down in the Orne River, near Jarny in France on Oct. 4, 1944. (AP Photo)

Members of the Holiness Faith Healers sect handle poisonous snakes in a demonstration at Stone Creek, Virginia on August 6, 1944 as a memorial to Rev....

A German officer pushes his car during the withdrawl of some troops from Paris, France, on July 30, 1944. (AP Photo)

Wave Seamen await their final orders before pulling their boats from the dock at the San Diego Naval Air Station on July 25, 1944. Among those qualifi...

Basil O???Connor, President Roosevelt???s former law partner, newly appointed Chairman of the American Red Cross, is shown at his first press conferen...

Princess Margaret (right) smiles happily as she attends her first public ceremony, at the Princess Margaret School, in Windsor, England on July 21, 19...