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A scale model of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier sits in Rockefeller Plaza's Lower Plaza in New York on May 16, 1945.The Model was placed there in conjun...

Holding the original Iwo Jima flag shown in the flag-raising photo made by AP staffer Joe Rosenthal, from left to right: Pvt. Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine...

A wooden model of a 27,000-ton, $70,000, aircraft carrier built by the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, N.Y. rests in Rockefeller Plaza's Lower Plaza in New Yor...

Jean Schedler Associated Press photographer in Manila, Phillapines, May 7, 1945. (AP Photo)

An American soldier, right, hugs an Englishwoman as other U.S. soldiers celebrate the surrender of Germany, May 7, 1945, in London's Piccadilly Circus...

Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini, is partially visible in a crude wooden box at a morgue in Milan, Italy, May 6, 1945. She was captured wit...

Observing the death of President Roosevelt, the United Nations flags fly at half mast at Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. on April 13, 1945. (AP Phot...

First Lieutenant Charles O. Taylor is shown here at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco following his evacuation because of illness after mont...

Members of Boy Scout troop 211 gather around Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, in their meeting room at Bethesda, Md., March 30, 1945, as h...

Sergeant Joe Louis sits with his wife,Marva Trotter Louis, in Judge John A. Sbarbaro's chambers in Chicago, Illinois, March. 27, 1945 talking over th...

Joe Rosenthal, right, is greeted by his brother William upon his arrival in his home town, Washington, March 26, 1945. The Associated Press photogra...

Author Richard Wright is seen in New York, March 21, 1945. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin)

Mary Ainslee, of Hollywood, dancing with Rafael A.Raco, of Mexico City at Ciro in Mexico City March 17, 1945. (AP Photo)

A group of Russian prisoners, freed as German Police had gone March 4, 1945. (AP Photo)

Four soldiers who arrived for hospitalization at Camp Kilmer, New Brunswick, N.J., Feb 24, 1945, celebrate their homecoming from overseas with ice cre...

Lillian Gish looks up at Sonny Tufts on the set of film in Los Angeles, February 14, 1945. In her role as

Dr. Linus Pauling, left, and Dr. Dan H. Campbell of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., seen Feb. 13, 1945, study a specimen o...

Laurence Olivier is seen in Shakespeare's

Russel Brines, Associated Press War correspondent visits a grave on the American side of the Prisoners Cemetery at Camp O'Donnell,Luzon at the Philipp...

Russel Brines, left, Associated Press War correspondent, and an unidentified person at right, view crosses in the overgrown Cemetery at Camp O'Donnell...

Alabama fullback Norwood Hodges smashes four yards to the Duke thirteen in the first quarter of the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans, Jan. 1, 1945. Duk...

Green Bay Packers' coach Curley Lambeau, right, congratulates fullback Ted Fritsch after the Packers' 14-7 victory over the New York Giants, Dec. 17,...

Nobel Prize Winner Isidor I. Rabi, December 10,1944. (AP Photo).

German officer Gerd von Rundstedt is seen in 1945. (AP Photo)

A giant corncob pipe became the trademark of General Douglas MacArthur and his World War II Pacific campaigns. Here he's shown in Manila in 1945. (AP...

The interior of London's Winfield House is seen in 1945. (AP Photo)

The interior of London's Winfield House is seen in 1945. (AP Photo)

Green Bay Packers' Don Hutson, left, and Irv Comp, right, received instructions from coach Curley Lambeau during training at Bear Mountain, N.Y., Nov....

Sgt. Leonard Arber, of Millis, Mass., reads 20-foot letter of 5,000 words he received from Cpl. Ruth Blank, of Boston, A AC stationed in Dallas, Texas...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, with Lt. Gen. Richard Sutherland at his side, wades through the surf as he returns to Leyte, the Philippines to direct t...

Gen. Douglas McArthur, Commander of the combined Forces now invading the Philippines at Leyte Island, leaves the cruiser Nashville, preceded by his a...

The scenic area shown in this photo, Oct 3, 1944 has been the subject of 16 months of litigation between the state of Wyoming and the Federal Governme...

Composer Arnold Schoenberg discusses some of his controversial music at his Santa Monica home, Oct. 1, 1944. (AP Photo)

Joe Gordon, U.S. Army, former New York Yankee's infielder, belts a long low one hard into center field, as the first game of the

Young pickers drag long bags behind them as they pluck the 1944 harvest in a North Carolina field. This photo is from September of 1944. (AP Photo...

In addition to its usual job as a street marker this lamp post on Fifth Ave. in New York, takes on extra wartime duties as it points the way to the ai...

A man, too tired or too drunk to finish his drink, falls asleep on a bar at 3 a.m. in New York, Sept. 4, 1944. (AP Photo)

These French civilians of all ages, including two girls with American and French flags, greet French troops entering Paris Aug.25,1944. (AP Photo/Harr...

These French civilians of all ages, including two girls with American and French flags, greet French troops entering Paris Aug.25,1944. (AP Photo/Harr...

Two base supports of the wrecked Santa Trinita Bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, are dynamited by British Eighth Army Engineers as they...

Sailors of the French Navy salute as they stand beneath flags of the United Nations at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Aug. 23, 1944. The ceremony ce...

Retreating Germans blasted the famed Ponte Vecchio Bridge and surrounding houses to impede the Allies conquest of Florence, Italy, August 19,1944. (AP...

Karl J. Shapiro, of Baltimore, Md., recipient of a Literary Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other literary awards in civilian life, continues his s...

Pianist Ruth Slenczinski is shown here July 29, 1944 with her father, Joseph Slenczinski, early in her career. He managed her affair until her marriag...

A U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bomber returns to the flight deck of its carrier after firing its rockets from the installations on the underside of the w...

With showers falling in New York City, world's heavyweight champion Joe Louis sits in empty stands at his training camp In Pompt on Lakes, NJ. June 18...

Henry B. Jameson, Associated press war correspondent, walks on the deck of the US Cruiser Arkansas June 9, 1944after he was injured slightly while abo...

The centennial of the telegraph is observed by, from left to right: Sen. Wallace White of Maine; Sen. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana; Sen. Warren Austin...

This is the instrument on which Samuel Morse flashed his famous

Port Au Prince, Haiti, City Hall , May 5, 1944. (AP Photo)