AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

With a stranded tank landing craft in the background, a British tank stands with its tracks sinking into the shingle on the beach at Dieppe, France, A...

British prisoners, some without their trousers, walk up the beach at Dieppe, France, on Aug. 19, 1942, after a failed Allied landing operation. (AP Ph...

Brig. Gen. Isaiah Davics, commanding general at Midland, Tex., Army Flying School, pins a pair of silver bombardier wings Lieutenant Lou Zamperini on...

This enormous figure of death with a Hitlerian brush of hair across the skull on which Remo Bufano is working will head the gigantic ??sNew York at Vi...

One of the women workers at plant drills rivet holes in the side plate of a machine gun case on May 20, 1942 in Detroit, MI. (AP Photo)

Buck Newsom lets fly with the final pitch the one that sent Bob Harris down swinging and gave Old Bobo the a one-hit 7-0 victory over the Detroit Tige...

Milton ??sPete??? Brooks (above), Detroit News photographer shown May 5, 1942, won the first Pulitzer prize for news photography with his picture of d...

Hitting 271 in 14 games since the season started, Johnny Mize, a favorite with Cardinal fans, who was traded to the New York Giants during the winter,...

Enemy picket boats spotted Adm. Bill

Fala, the pet Scottie of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, obliges news photographers as he poses outside the White House on April 7, 1942 for his...

A detachment of Soviet troops hitch a ride on the backs of tanks as they advance against the forward poisitons of the German Army, somewhere in Russia...

Charles A. Lindbergh, right, began his first day???s work for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, April 3, 1942 with a conference with Henry Ford, left...

Wing commander Percy Pickard (right) examines a German military helmet captured by British parachute soldiers during a raid on the German radio statio...

Soviet Red Army motorcyclists and armoured cars advance through a forest, somewhere in Russia, on Feb. 23, 1942. (AP Photo)

A detachment of white-clad Soviet ski troops prepare to leave their base, somewhere in Russia, on Feb. 12, 1942, to search for German troops. (AP Phot...

Princess Elizabeth of England (right) discusses a point or two concerning a pantomine, ?Cinderella?, with her mother, Queen Elizabeth of England, whil...

Most of these women formerly made leis for tourists. Some are housewives doing their bit by cutting and tearing huge strips of many-colored cloth to w...

Byron Nelson, Toledo, Ohio Pro Golfer, smiles in victory after winning $5,000 Oakland Open on Jan. 18, 1942 in Calif. (AP Photo/CLH)

Fritz Kreisler, noted violinists, rehearses at the academy of music in Philadelphia, Jan. 16, 1942, Kreisler has not appeared in a concert since he wa...

Fritz Kreisler plays his violin professionally for the first time at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Jan. 16, 1942, since he was seriously injur...

Nearly 500 of these posters, vividly printed in red, white and blue, were sent on Thursday, Jan. 15, 1942 by the Buffalo Police Department to precinct...

Byron Nelson in action at Los Angeles, Calif., on Jan. 7, 1942, ready for 17th annual Los Angeles $10,000 open. (AP Photo)

With a sizzling last-line score of 30, including five birdies, Byron Nelson of Toledo scored a 269 and won $10,000 Miami Open for two successive years...

Byron Nelson with 269, chipping to green on 3 wins Miami Open for $10,000 on Dec. 14, 1941. (AP Photo)

Chinese in New York???s Chinatown read bulletins on Dec. 7, 1941 of the Japanese attack on United States bases in the Pacific. (AP Photo)

Troops man a machine gun nest at Wheeler Field, which adjoins Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, after the Japanese attack on the island of Oahu, Dec. 7,...

A Marine stands guard outside the Capitol in Washington, following the Japanese declaration of war on the United States, Dec. 7, 1941. Aiding the Mari...

Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by her daughters, Princess Elizabeth (left) and Princess Margaret Rose (right) reviewed cadets at Sandhurst College on Au...

Jay Allen and Richard C. Hottelet, right, newspapermen is shown after his return from Europe, at West Point, Aug. 1, 1941. (AP Photo)

A German Aerial Machine Gunner mans his weapon ready for action on July 9, 1941. (AP Photo)

Limassol, on Akrotiri Bay, is a leading port city on the south coast of the British Mediterranean Island of Cyprus on June 10, 1941. Limassol has a po...

Veteran Craig Wood, who won the National Open Golf title which had eluded him for many years, hugs the cup whose sole possessor is the no. one man in...

Fritz Kreisler, a traffic casualty Fritz Kreisler, the violinist, is placed on an ambulance stretcher after being struck by an automobile at 57th stre...

A woman pedestrian gives first aid to Fritz Kreisler, famed concert violinist on the sidewalk at 57th street and Madison Avenue, New York, April 26, 1...

Fritz Kreisler, Famous concert violinist, lies bleeding on a sidewalk at 57th street and Madison Avenue, New York, April 26, 1941 after he was struck...

This is the portion of the crowd estimated by police to number between 10,000 and 15,000 which gathered in the street outside New York City???s Manhat...

Barbara Queen (left) and Carol Ann Young, daughters of actor Robert Young, and Clarence Nash, voice of Donald Duck, at Walt Disney Studio Party on Apr...

Shown in photo from Left to right are: Leopold Stokowski, Mrs. Walt Disney, Walt Disney and wife, at Hollywood Premiere of Fantasia, unserviced at Los...

Gesturing during her testimony, Dorothy Thompson, newspaper columnist tells the house foreign affairs committee holding hearings on the administration...

With the putt, Byron Nelson on Dec. 15, 1940 assured himself first place in the $10,000 Miami Open with a one-stroke lead over Clayton Heafner of Linv...

Pitching contract expires soon Sammy Baugh, who pitches a lot of passes for the Washington redskins, seems a cinch to be offered a new contract when h...

But it???s necessary. Max West (left) returning to active play at Boston on July 26, 1940 for the first time since he sprained his back after starring...

When France is facing the most critical moment in her history, Britain is sending every available man to fight by the side of the French soldiers and...

Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis, grimy but grinning, is shown after winning the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 500-mile race for the third time, May 30, 1940...

Members of the Welsh Guards are shown as they used for an observation post the ruins of a building destroyed by shell fire in the last world war shown...

Shown in photo is training for the front cine in France a relief party coming up a trench on Dec. 28, 1939. (AP Photo)

Without loss of any sort, many thousands of British troops have been escorted to France by the Royal navy and the Royal Air Force. It is reported that...

Loaded with soldiers of the Reich, these trucks rumble through the city of Danzig as the Nazis took over and began their invasion of Poland, Sept. 18,...

Members of the class of 1939 at the United States Military Academy are shown June 12, 1939 in West Point as they filed past President Franklin Rooseve...

Byron Nelson, the new national open golf champion, kisses his trusty putter after defeating Craig Wood, 70 to 73, for the title in the second 18-hole...