AP Historical Hard Drive 2006

Author Thomas Sancton poses in New York, May 19, 1944. (AP Photo)

James (Jimmie) H. Davis, country singer and politician, gives his oath on a bible during the swearing in ceremony as governor of Louisiana in Baton R...

Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, 59, Medal of Honor winner credited with downing 28 Japanese planes during World War II shown in 1944. (AP Photo)

Taken from a fleet street roof-top, these pictures are the first to be released by the censor, showing a flying bomb actually crashing in central Lond...

Motorised German troops being welcomed by civilians as they passed through a Dalmatian village on their way to the Adriatic coast, Oct. 23, 1943. (AP...

Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara,

Dr. A. Lincoln Desser checks the blood pressure of actor George Sanders during a physical examination at the Los Angeles Army induction station, June...

Souks, the Moroccan equivalent of the European street markets, are seen in Marrakech, June 8, 1943. The streets are covered over to cool it for shopp...

The Goums, famous Moroccan warriors feared by the Germans and Italians, stand in front of a war memorial statue in Casablanca, ready for a rearmament...

General Kurt Waldheim, second from left, stands at a meeting on May 22, 1943, at an airstrip in Podgorica, Yugoslavia, now Titograd. Left, stands Esco...

The Intrepid, the third giant aircraft carrier built at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co. since Pearl Harbor, is floated out of her grav...

The bottle didn't break on her first two attempts, so Mrs. John Howard Hoover, wife of Vice Admiral Hoover, takes a third swing and splashes champagne...

The Intrepid, the third giant aircraft carrier built at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co. since Pearl Harbor, is floated out of her grav...

The bottle didn't break on her first two attempts, so Mrs. John Howard Hoover, wife of Vice Admiral Hoover, takes a third swing and splashes champagne...

A Moroccan newspaper vendor is seen on the streets of Casablanca, French Morocco, as he hawks large color photos of President Roosevelt, March 1943....

Officers of Lieutenant General Mark Clark's staff attend a feast given by the Caid El Ayadi, head of the Rehamna tribe in Morocco, March 7, 1943. (AP...

French troops, including Zouaves, mingle with American forces in Morocco, Dec. 18, 1942. (AP Photo/Harrison Roberts)

A view of the old Arab Quarter in Casablanca, Morocco, as seen from the Hotel Excelsior, Nov. 11, 1942. (AP Photo/Ralph D. Sawyer)

This is a general view of the open market area in Marrakech, French Morocco, seen Nov. 9, 1942. This inland southern capital is the objective of a pa...

A caravan comes from the sand hills in the desert near Mogador, French Morocco, where Vichy radio reported a new American landing, Nov. 9, 1942. (AP...

A view of the harbor in Casablanca, Morocco, a French possession in northwestern Africa, seen Nov. 7, 1942. (AP Photo)

An anti-Jewish sign is posted in Berlin, seen Oct. 20, 1942, bearing the title

Brigade Commisioner Leonid Brezhnev, right, is pictured as he hands over the Party Card to Alexandr Molov during the battle for the town of Tuapse loc...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, second left with cigar, attended a demonstration of United States paratroopers at Fort Jackson, South Caro...

Brigadier General James Doolittle is seen standing by the new Air Force poster in Washington, May 19, 1942. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of...

Jock Whitney and his bride, the former Betsy Cushing Roosevelt, smile happily at each other as they enter a Washington Theatre, April 30, 1942, for th...

Major Frank Capra, famous movies director, at his desk in the War department in Washington, March 6, 1942. (AP Photo)

Leonid Brezhnev, (front row center) sits amongst comrades of the southern front in Russia, February 1942. (AP Photo/Str)

Actress Carole Lombard, right, is seen with her mother, Elizabeth Peters, Jan. 15, 1942. The actress and her mother died in a plane crash outside of...

Actress Carole Lombard, right, is seen with Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Will Hays, center, and Indiana Defense Savings chairm...

Actress Carole Lombard is seen rehearsing her role in selling defense bonds and stamps, Jan. 14, 1942 in Chicago. (AP Photo)

Detroit Tigers rookie infielder Billy Hitchcock swings a bat during spring training in Lakeland, Fla., in this March 2, 1942 photo. (AP Photo/File)

*** FILE *** A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 du...

German Marshall Hermann Goering, right, and French Head of Sate of Vichy France Marshall Philippe Petain on the platform at St. Florentin, Vergigny, F...

An unsuccessful attempt by an unidentified submarine to torpedo the USS Greer was reported Sept. 4, 1941, whilst carrying mail. The Greer counterattac...

Abbe Henri Heral teaches children their Catechism in the town of Puycelsi, France, Aug. 4, 1941. The children were refugees from Lorraine. (AP Photo)

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, centre, signs an agreement leasing certain Atlantic bases to the United States for 99 years, in the Cabinet...

Jewish immigrants are seen as they are building and setting up the Kibbutz Negba. in Palestine, 1941. A group of Arabs stands outside the barbed wire...

Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotoc, centre, talks with German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim Von Ribbentrop, left, at a reception in the...

The signing of the Three Power Pact, aligning the three Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan took place in The Chancellory, Berlin, on Oct. 16, 194...

Following a large air raid by German bombers, local people, coming out of their air raid shelters found a bus standing on end in a large crater, in Ba...

Following a German air raid, rescue and salvage workers clear up in Piccadilly, London, Oct. 14, 1940. (AP Photo)

Part of the first detachment of British troops to withdraw from China, march towards Garden Bridge, Shanghai, Sept. 28, 1940, to embark on a boat. The...

Workers in a British armament factory stacking shells somewhere in England, July 4, 1940, Workers all over Britain have been working twelve hours a da...

The queue of anxious parents gathered outside the Passport Office in London, England, on June 20, 1940, to inquire about the possiblity of sending the...

Local defence volunteers from Westminster march through Parliament Square, London, June 15, 1940. The volunteers do not have uniforms, but wear armban...

A crowd outside an Italian shop in the Italian quarter of Soho, London, June 10, 1940, following Mussolini's declaration of war on the Allies. There h...

Female workers in a British armament factory, somewhere in England, May 26, 1940, working on their Sunday off. Workers all over Britain have been wor...

Barbed wire and armed guards are part of the new secuity measures around the War Office, London, May 19, 1940. (AP Photo/Staff/Priest)

Refugees, recently arrived by train from the Netherlands, board buses at a station in London, England, May 18, 1940. Note the large pile of luggage st...