AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Dr. Robert B. Woodward and Dr. William E. Doering have developed a chemical method of duplicating Quinine, a problem which has baffled scientists for...

Associated Press war correspondent Russell Landstrom in the field with a 155- Millimeter Outfit now in training for the opening of the western front,...

Eugene Burns, Associated Press war correspondent in a Winter flying suit while on assignment in the Aleutians, April 21, 1944. Burns accompanied the A...

Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of American-trained Chinese troops on the China-Burma-India front, visits a wounded Chinese soldier during a re...

King Peter of Yugoslavia and his bride, Princess Alexandra of Greece, leave a reception at the Yugoslav legation in London following their Wedding the...

The youngsters

The youngsters

A novel stunt for selling war bonds is the path of signposts in front of James McCreery's department store in New York City, Feb 28, 1944. The arrows...

A Cuban rhumba dancer named

Fritzie Zivic, who fought his way out of many tough spors while world welterweight champion, doesn't seem anxious to get out of this spot. The irrepre...

Thirty-three members of the French carrier Bearn crew wait at the Red Cross Blood Bank to donate a pint of blood to the Allied Cause in New Orleans, F...

One of the themes of this dance drama is the conflict of two types of lovers, symbolic of the inner conflict of one of the sisters. Here at the climax...

To the tune of popping flash bulbs and clicking shutters, Frank Sinatra Jr., son of the well-known singer, makes his first public appearance in his mo...

Ambassador Avra M. Warren. January 4, 1944 (AP Photo).

Eugene Burns, Associated Press War Correspondent with the Pacific Fleet, stands on the deck of a Navy vessel as he covered operations of a task force...

Laurence Olivier is shown in a scene from Shakespeare's

Gen. Douglas MacArthur borrows a soldier's canteen for a quick drink after landing in Leyte, the Philippines, 1944. (AP Photo/Frank Prist/Acme War Pi...

From left to right, Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley, and Maj. Gen. Richard Sutherland are seen at the 96...

Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell, commander of U.S. Forces in the China-Burma-India Theater of war, stoops to give a word of cheer to Pvt. George E. Hi...

This is a view of Postdamerplatz, Berlin November 25, 1943. Buildings fronting on this square were reported damaged in Royal Airforce raids. Modernist...

Valerie Hogan, wife of golf player, Ben Hogan, pins the bars of a second Lieutenant on the collar of her husband as he gets his commission at Miami Be...

Combined Nazi demolition and Allied Air Bombardment of Naples, Italy, November 4,1943. The drydock area of the harbor shows ships, in dock for minor r...

After 18 months in the dark, theater marquees on Broadway light up again while underneath the crowds come out of the dimout gloom in New York, Nov. 2,...

New York City sparkles again as the dimout was brightened to a brownout in the Nation's seaboard areas on Nov. 1, 1943. This view looks south from ato...

Rescue crews digging out wounded and dead in Naples, Italy, November 1943. Sometimes they carefully dig with hands into the ruins and use no sharp ins...

German Stuka JU 87's homeward bound after a successful action against the Soviets October 30, 1943. (AP Photo)

Allied soldiers quickly come to the aid of Victims of the explosion of a German delayed action land mine in the Naples Post Office on this street, Oct...

American P47 Thunderbolt pilots listen intently as their intelligence officers brief them, somewhere in England, Oct. 6, 1943, before the start of a m...

Sergeant Joe Louis,right, world heavyweight boxing champion and Billy Conn, the outstanding challenger for the title, visit patients at Jefferson ba...

F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover is seen in Oct. 1943, at CBS radio station WTOP's studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Reni Newsphoto Service)

It is purely coincidental that Hedy Lamarr posed for

A painting of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo is seen, Sept. 19, 1943 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. No portrait of Col...

This etching of Christopher Columbus by Henri Emile Lefort is from an anonymous portrait in the Naval Museum at Madrid, Spain, seen Sept. 18, 1943. (...

Sergeant Joe Louis, at right in uniform, world's heavyweight champion, is third man in the ring for a soldier bout at Fort Belvoir, Va., Aug.28, 19...

Twenty-Five years after they had served together in the 26th Division during the Chateau-Thierry Drive in France, three former Sergeants meet in the R...

Inch by inch the USS Lafayette, formerly the French liner Normandie, is raised toward an upright position at her Hudson River pier in New York, Aug. 7...

A block of flats in Rome, Italy damaged during the Allied Raid on the city, August 4,1943. (AP Photo)

Naval officers stand in line of nearly complete torpedoes which are being turned out at

J. Norman Lodge, Associated Press correspondent, who since he left the States in the Early fall of 1942 has planed, trained,

Angered by presidential proclamation that turned some Jackson Hole land into a National Monument these Wyoming cowmen protected their herds with rifle...

The armed Axis Grenadiers take prisoner some Russian soldiers at an unnamed Soviet village April 18, 1943. (AP Photo)

A Russian woman bends over the body of a man killed by Germans on their retreat from an occupied village in the path of a Russian Army advance April 9...

A war poster which is both a thanks and a reminder to the women of America to do their bit toward final victory, April 2, 1943. (AP Photo)

Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault talks with J. Reilly O' Sullivan, Associated Press Correspondent, and two other newsmen, somewhere in China on March 25,19...

This is the scene at an unidentified New York City bar and lunchroom, March 7, 1943. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi)

Here is the River Spree as seen from the Berlin Cathedral in Berlin, Germany, March 2, 1943. The river was described by Royal Airforce pilots as clear...

Crowds rush for cover as sirens sound for the Daylight Air Raid Alarm at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Feb. 20, 1943. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

Helen Patty Jackson, California Shipbuilding Corporation employee, seen in Los Angeles, January 21, 1943, reminds Calship workers of America's goal in...

On the bitter Winter fronts in Russia, cold snow have moved in to aid against the Germans, as the December 28, 1942 photo of German soldiers in a snow...

Red Grange grabs ball after first kickoff of game with Michigan in 1924 and gets away for 95-yard gain and a touchdown for Illinois. (AP Photo)