AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Justin M. (Sam) Barry, (above) was named head football coach at the University of Southern California shown August 15, 1941, succeeding his long time...

It is Richard Whitney, former President of the New York Stock Exchange, and leaving Sing Sing prison on parole in Ossining, New York, on August 11, 19...

The committee for the celebration of the President???s birthday presented to President Roosevelt at the White House in Washington on July 23, 1941, a...

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...

T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, is shown, April 1941. (AP Photo)

The corner of a hospital in Belfast, in April 1941, after Germany's first full scale attack on the area. A squadron of German bombers raided Belfast o...

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, actress Lana Turner, actor Wallace Beery, in Washington, Jan. 29, 1941. (AP Photo)

FILE- This Nov. 20, 1940 file photo shows a Lockheed P-38

New York City-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy on Oct. 27, 1940 after he arrived shown with members of his family who met him left to right: Jean, 12; Mrs...

In her first radio broadcast, 14 year old Princess Elizabeth, right, said that Englands children at home were full of cheerfulness and courage; she is...

James Forrestal (above), President of Dillon Read And Company, New York investment firm, was appointed a $10,000-a-year administrative assistant to Pr...

Johnny Mize, St. Louis Cardinals, pre-game batting practice at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, on May 20, 1940. (AP Photo)

Princess Elizabeth (Sunday) celebrates her 14th birthday. This picture is taken in Windsor Great Park, on April 21, 1940. Show's Princess Elizabeth...

From left to right are : Soong May-ling, or Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame H.H. Kung, General Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Sun Yat-Sen, at a garden part...

George F. Hurley, left, investigator for the Dies committee investigating un-American activities, was ordered arrested on charges of conspiring to dep...

A sign on a house states that it is inhabited by Arian Christians (not to be confused with Aryans), March 28, 1940. It belongs to Arian Poles who desi...

Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, left, shakes hands with American Ambassador to London Joseph Kennedy outside the Foreign Office on March 11,...

Britain's Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth is pushed by tugs into her berth in New York March 7, 1940, after she had travelled from England. The liner wil...

British Lighteweight boxer Eric Boon poses with his Lonsdale Belt at a gym in Cambridge on Feb. 10, 1940. (AP Photo)

Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police perform

Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, widow of the Lindbergh baby kidnaper, with her son, Manfried in New York court, Jan. 31, 1940 where Mrs. Hauptmann is su...

A Russian tank which, during the panic of the Russian retreat, ran into its own anti-tank guns, was disabled and captured, near Suomusssalmi, Finland...

Danish volunteers who are fighting for Finland on the march with their skis somewhere in Finland, on Jan. 30, 1940, and they wear the adopted Finnish

This African American sharecropper family of six found nothing in the way of delicacies on their thanksgiving table on Nov. 23, 1939. They were satis...

William R. Fisher (left) and Walter Johnson,African American are the leaders of the sharecroppers camp near Poplar Bluff, Missouri on Nov. 11, 1939....

Here is Charley Edmonds, African American building his own home at the 93-acre sharecropper???s camp near Poplar Bluff, Missouri on Nov. 11, 1939. Fr...

An African American member of the sharecroppers camp or Poplar Bluff, Mo., takes up a collection to be used in hiring a truck to bring surplus commod...

Ships of a British mine sweeper flotilla, converted fishing boats, sweep the sea for German mines off the English caost on Oct. 23, 1939. The black ba...

New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio slides safely into the plate with the tying run in the ninth inning of the fourth and final game of the World Series aga...

This is the first Diesel engine, invented by Dr. Rudolf Diesel in 1898, shown in the German Museum in Munich, Germany, 1939. (AP Photo)

Crowds of people are seen in the destroyed city of Warsaw, Poland, after the Nazis attacked, Oct. 3, 1939. (AP Photo)

A newly completed Messerschmitt ME 109 is rolled out of the factory ready to be flight tested, somewhere in Germany, October 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's King George VI, right, and Queen Elizabeth leave St.Paul's Cathedral, London on Oct. 1, 1939, after a service for the Nation's Day of Prayer...

A new Messerschmitt ME 109's are built in a factory, somewhere in Germany, October 1939. (AP Photo)

German Messcherschmitt ME fighter plane patrols the skies over Germany, October 1939. (AP Photo)

British soldiers relax and walk around the streets of Paris, France, on Sept. 29, 1939, before they are sent to the front lines. (AP Photo)

British Royal Air Force pilots receive instructions before taking off on a training flight, somewhere in England on Sept. 29, 1939. (AP Photo)

Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George discusses the wartime production of food on his farm in Churt, Surrey on Sept. 27, 1939, with members...

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon leaves for the House of Commons with the emergency Budget Box from his office in Whitehall, Londo...

The verger snuffs out the candles after a service in Southwark Cathedral, London on Sept. 27, 1939. One of the old and valuable tombs can be seen cove...

Romania's new Minister of the Interior General Gabriel Marinescu supervising the arrangements for Polish refugees on the Romanian border Sept. 26, 193...

The new Romanian Prime Minister General Gheorghe Argesanu, right, talks with the new Minister of the Interior, General Gabriel Marinescu, in Bucharest...

American Ambassador to London Joseph Kennedy leaves the British Foreign Office in London on Sept. 25, 1939, following a meeting. (AP Photo/Staff/Illin...

Britain's Opposition Leader Clement Attlee arrives at No. 10 Downing Street, London on Sept. 25, 1939, for a meeting with the Prime Minister. (AP Phot...

A garage attendant waits for customers at a garage somewhere in London on Sept. 24, 1939, after petrol rationing was enforced. (AP Photo/Staff/Beadel)

A file of British troops enter a gas van, in which poisonous gas is released, so that they can experience wearing their respirators in an enclosed are...

Britain's Duke of Windsor, wearing the uniform of a staff officer of the British Army, arrives at the War Office in London, on Sept. 22, 1939. (AP Pho...

Dr. Edward Benes, the former President of the Czechoslovakian Republic, studies a map in his house, somewhere in London, England on Sept. 22, 1939. (A...

German troops stop and search inhabitants of Gdynia, Poland on Sept. 22, 1939, for guns and ammunition. (AP Photo)

Lady Carnarvon, better known as the dancer Tilly Losch, leads a line of evacuated children, who are staying at her home, in England on Sept. 22, 1939....