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Pauline Gower, well-known British aviator, is shown when she received the O.B.E. at an investiture at Buckingham Palace, March 5, 1942. (AP Photo)

In this photo provided by British Official Photograph, one of the motor launches of the Royal Navy which brought back the British raiding party from t...

In this photo provided by British Official Photograph, British parachutist are pictured along with some of the sailors who brought them back from a ni...

In this photo provided by British Official Photograph, British troops re-embark on landing craft as they prepare for a night raid of the French coast,...

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No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore Collection/REX (1651012a) The Blue Bird, Shirley T...

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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC IMAGE Japanese forces placed this severed head of a Chinese soldier on a barbed wire barricade as a warning to the public not to op...

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Anthony Wallace / Associated Newspapers (1765430a) Spiritual Meeting At Albert Hall Clairvoyant Mrs Estelle Roberts I...

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David T. Wilentz explains one of the ransom notes to reporters at Flemington, N.J., Jan. 15, 1935, when handwriting experts were on the stand most of...

This is a deposit slip which accompanied exchange of $2,980 of Lindbergh ransom money for silver certificates, referred to by Frank Wilson, Federal ag...

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Two of several notes which appeared in New York City newspapers during the attempt to pay the Lindbergh kidnappers the ransom money and save the child...

The end of the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation apparently now at hand, will bring a "back to the barracks" order for these three New Jersey State T...

Digging up the earth from the spot off the Mount Rose road, near Hopewell, N.J., where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was found, in a vain searc...

All that is left of the Bruno R. Hauptmann garage in the Bronx borough of New York, after police got through searching form more of the Lindbergh rans...

District Attorney Samuel J. Foley of Bronx County, left, and Inspector John L. Sullivan hold a plank ripped from the garage of Bruno Hauptmann's garag...

A side-by-side comparison of the handwriting of the Lindbergh ransom letters with specimens of Bruno R. Hauptmann's writing on display at the Mayflowe...

The first official reproduction of the Lindbergh ransom note telling Col. Charles Lindbergh that he would find his son on a boat between Horseneck Bea...

Walter Lyle and John Lyons, left to right, the gas station workers who became suspicious at a $10 gold certificate given to them by Bruno Richard Haup...

The fourth ransom note received by Col. Charles Lindbergh, describing the box in which the $50,000 was to be delivered to the kidnappers, shown Sept....

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No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX (3069987a) Adolphe Menjou; Shirley Temple Littl...

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No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore Collection/REX (1611892a) Now And Forever, Gary Co...

Ray Sanderson, left, and Clarence Hopft, near the scene where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was found, midway between the Lindbergh estate and...

Carloads of sightseers line a country road near the Lindbergh home not far from Hopewell, N.J., where the body of 19-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr...

Combing an area 25 miles square in the Sourland Mountain of New Jersey for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby, New Jersey State Troopers are shown peering d...

Since the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, State Police of New Jersey have been almost continually on duty in the vicinity of the Lindbergh estate, s...

The New Jersey State Troopers are continually combing the countryside in the neighborhood of the Lindbergh home at Hopewell, N.J., for any possible cl...

This is the isolated location of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, N.J., where the search for the Lindbergh baby continues, shown March 3, 1932. (AP...

Robert L. Ripley, traveler and originator of the "Believe It Or Not" series received the acid test at Long Island University in New York, Dec. 1, 1931...

Julius Meyer Titular, head of all East German Jews, who fled to West Berlin, Jan. 15, 1953 shows a mark which was branded on his forearm by the Nazis...

English author H. G. Wells, third right, after he had made a speech on the Commonsense of World Peace, in the Reichstag, in Berlin, on April 15, 1929....

Picture taken on November 11, 1927 of a "gueule cassee", the disfigured guardian of the site of Rethondes in the Compicgne Forest, where the Armistice...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY (FILES) - An undated file photo of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini during a political meeting. Italian dictator Benito...

Picture taken after the first World War of a "gueule cassee", the disfigured guardian of the site of Rethondes in the Compicgne Forest, where the Armi...

(FILES) - A photo taken on November 11, 1918 shows Parisian crowd celebrating the end of the First World War and the Armistice treaty between the Alli...