AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Parents find the body of their murdered son in Kerch, April 4, 1942. (AP Photo)

Bob Feller batting and pitching for Naval Training Station team as the team defeated University of Richmond, 13 to 1, April 3, 1942 in Norfolk, Va. (...

Bob Feller batting and pitching for Naval Training Station team as the team defeated University of Richmond, 13 to 1, April 3, 1942 in Norfolk, Va. (...

Bob Feller batting and pitching for Naval Training Station team as the team defeated University of Richmond, 13 to 1, April 3, 1942 in Norfolk, Va. (...

Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, left, and fight promoter Mike Jacobs , center, on April 1, 1942 presented to Maj.Gen.Irving J.Phillipson, right, a...

Actress and comedian Lucille Ball, center, with her husband Desi Arnaz behind her, and actors Dick Powell, partially obscured by serviceman at far lef...

A German plane is brought down at the finale of an air combat with a Russian plane, according to official soviet sources in operations on the Russian...

Workmen begin dismantling the Wrigley chewing gum sign New York on March 2, 1942. The Great White Way's largest illuminated sign is rapidly becoming j...

Members of the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force operate the balloon barrage station in Grosvernor Square, London, March 1, 1942, during World War I...

Sixteen signs in Times Square were turned out by one small switch operated by Douglas Leigh,sign designer, in New York, March 1, 1942. (AP Photo/Tom F...

Sixteen signs in Times Square were turned out by one small switch operated by Douglas Leigh,sign designer, in New York, March 1, 1942. (AP Photo/Tom F...

The Navy Department announced February 28, 1942 that the 8,500-ton Japanese cruiser Mogami, a warship of a type which carries a complement of 850 men...

Movie Director John Ford, Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, seen in a reflective mood on his yatch. (Ap Photo)

Enemy bomb damage sustained by one of Moscow 's famous byzantine churches, February 23, 1942. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK, Feb.21,1942- Boy Scouts of Pennsylvania remembered the valiant stano of the Tattered Continental Army with a visit to valley force Feb.21 on...

On a yard in the Proletarian District of Rostov-On-Don, lie bodies described by official Russian sources as

Dr. Bart J. Bok, Dutch-born astronomer, is seen Feb. 11, 1942, in New Orleans. (AP Photo)

Russian troops approach Moscow with German prisoners February 10, 1942. (AP Photo)

The former French liner, Normandie, begins to list as firemen fight a fire which ripped her vitals at her Hudson River berth in New York, Feb. 9, 1942...

Dorothy L. Sayers, the famous authoress, whose radio play introducing Christ as a character has caused such widespread controversy, signs the visitors...

Dorothy L. Sayers signs the visitors book at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London, after preaching at the lunch time service. Feb. 6, 1942. (AP Ph...

German Stukas, according to Berlin Sources, make a driving attack on Soviet field positions which the Nazis said flanked a road used by them in their

From left to right: Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs, Ga.; Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, Ga.; and Georgia Tainter of Fargo, N.D., give a salute at the annu...

At the Home Thrift Association in Yorkville, a German neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, Dorothy Lamparter fills out the applications of youngsters...

The Casino Theater on East 86th Street near Third Avenue in New York's Upper East Side German neighborhood of Yorkville, which formerly showed German...

This is a general view of the center of Yorkville, New York's famed German district, Jan. 22, 1942. Among the shops and stores are brau-houses, cafes...

Joe Louis, still heavyweight boxing champion, transferred his army induction papers from Chicago Jan.10, 1942 in New York . Louis is preparing to...

With Joe Louis looking on, at center; promoter Mike Jacobs, left, presents an $89,092.01 check in New York, Jan., 13, 1942 to Rear Admiral Adolphus...

This may be one of the reasons why the German advance into Russia failed to keep up according to schedule. Everywhere the roads were nothing but a sea...

German troops pull vehicles through the mud of Russia

A crowd of customers at the Royal Palm Club, a popular rendezvous of vacationers in Miami Beach, Fla., December 29, 1941. (AP Photo)

A four-color recruiting poster for the U.S. Marines is seen, Dec. 19, 1941. (AP Photo)

R. R. Cronin, Associated Press staff writers in the Far East, December 9, 1941. (AP Photo)

Frank Sinkwich, a Georgia Back, was selected on The Associated Press All-American team for 1941 on Dec. 6, 1941. (AP Photo)

Testing .30 caliber ammunition in an army rifle at the Denver Ordnance plant. December 3, 1941.The rifle is accuratley aimed and rigidly fixed, if th...

German Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt is seen in 1942. (AP Photo)

This is a section of the Warner Brothers Commissary in Hollywood, Calif., 1942. The commissary feeds upwards of 2,500 people daily. (AP Photo)

This is a section of the main commissary at Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, Calif., 1942. (AP Photo)

This is the U.S. Marine Corps insignia, 1942. (AP Photo)

Dr. Florence Seibert, who isolated the active principle of tuberculin, is seen in 1942. (AP Photo)

World War II poster used during 1942. (AP Photo)

German soldiers advancing over the snow covered fields during an attack on the Eastern Front, November 25, 1941. (AP Photo)

During an attempt by German planes to raid Moscow a bomber struck a barrage balloon, with one of his wings cut off, the bomber crashed into the Noskva...

A German gun blasting away at a Russian position October 31, 1941. Soldiers cup their ears for protection as the gun goes off. (AP Photo)

German troops proceed cautiously taking advantage of the cover afforded by Soviet houses, October 31, 1941. (AP Photo)

An apartment house damaged by bombs in the Soviet capital of Moscow October 30, 1941. (AP Photo)

Russians of the popular volunteer force practice bayonet fighting on the snow October 29, 1941. (AP Photo)

Mel Hein examines the official game guide with

Football player Mel Hein of the New York Gaints, Oct 26, 1941. (AP Photo)

Alexander Kerensky, left, the last prime minister of Russia before the Soviet revolution, chats with his attorney, Percival Jackson, outside Federal C...