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Lillian Gish, left, and Mary Pickford, stars of the silent film days, arrive at The Broadway Theater in New York October 24, 1941 to attend the world...

German tanks braking through in the action that led to the closing of the ring in the vicinity of Moscow, October 24, 1941. After driving for half an...

German sources described the gloomy looking officer at the right as a captured Russian colonel who is beinhg interrogated by Nazi officers October 24,...

Huts go up in flames as German tanks get closer to Moscow October 24, 1941. (AP Photo)

German tanks breaking through on the action that led to the closing of the ring in the vicinity of Moscow October 24, 1941. After driving for half an...

A barrage balloon in Hyde Park, London, is hauled down for inspection and to be refilled with gas, Oct. 20, 1941. The man in uniform at left is Free...

A Soviet soldier captured in the fighting Luga, is examined by Storm Trooper German soldiers October 17, 1941. (AP Photo)

Artillery batteries stand in readiness to support an advancing German column on the eastern front, according to German sources, October 10, 1941. (AP...

The Girl Defense Workers, Employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, raise their arms in the sign of

Berlin sources claim that this is a long-distance camera view of Leningrad, taken from the Germans' seige lines October 1, 1941. Berlin also identifie...

New York Giants' Mel Heins in seen in New York, Sept. 25, 1941. (AP Photo)

New York Giants' Mel Hein (7) charges during training action in New York, Sept. 25, 1941. Other players are unidentified. (AP Photo)

Lieutenant S.G. Cutler of the United States Army Air Corps applies a flame to the fire and concussion proof suit worn by Ethel Beck, at the Civilian...

Miss Ethel Beck wears a concussion-proof suit as she stands beside a 2,000-pound demolition bomb in the Army Air Corps exhibit at the Civilian and Nat...

U.S. Navy men greet the German submarine, U-53, in a launch after the U-Boat visited briefly and delivered mail for the German embassy in New York on...

Doing her bit for defense Dot King, one of the secretaries at the Office oO Emergency Management, pauses in front of one of the new defense signs, rec...

Using trees and houses to guard its approach, a Soviet pursuit plane is trying to attack German anti aircraft positions, September 16, 1941. (AP Photo...

A searchlight beam plays atop the RCA building at Rockefeller Center in New York, Sept. 4, 1941. The searchlight demonstration was held in connection...

Peopel put up shacks to overcome the lack of housing in Yokohama, Japan September 3, 1941, The bombing raid of the American Air Force left part of th...

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and his wife Marva were reconciled in Chicago August 19, 1941 and this is how they appeared after a...

Those genuine snowballs, flown here from a western resort spot, were a press agent's idea of getting publicity for a new movie. It was billed as a sno...

German soldiers stand guard over what Berlin sources described as Soviet soldiers who were taken captive as they fled from their burning tanks August...

German forces on the Eastern Front August 4, 1941. These army horses rest at the side of a road as tanks and trucks roll past. (AP Photo)

A view of Derby downs as over 55,000 fans saw a home-town boy, 14-year-old Claude Smith, win the eight annual All-American Soap-Box Derby Akron, Ohio...

A German anti-tank unit prepares its way across a river in Russia, uly 29, 1941. (AP Photo)

Fires burn in the background as a German Column, including cycle troops pause along a road on the Eastern Front, July 28, 1941. (AP Photo)

German officer and soldier flush two men, described by Berlin sources as Russian snipers, from a wheat field July 25, 1941.The tank was said to have b...

S. Gregory Taylor chairman of the Greek war relif is seen here raising the victory flag, with a V and morse code dots at Hotel Buckingham on west 57th...

Valerie Hogan, wife of Ben Hogan, shown July 20, 1941. No other identification given. (AP Photo)

German troops of a motorized unit move through a town on the Eastern Front and residents trudge back to their war wrecked homes July 15, 1941. (AP Pho...

German infantrymen watching enemy movements from their trenches shortly before an advance, July 10, 1941. (AP Photo)

Wreckage of a German aircraft brought down by the Soviet Airforce, July 1941. (AP Photo)

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis sits in a speedboat near his training quarters at Greenwood Lake, N.Y., June 17, 1941. Louis is relaxing on the...

Ben Hogan picks one out of the sand and lays it up to the pin in his last practice round June 4,1941 for the National Open Tournament at Fort Worth, T...

Charlie Chaplin,standing, greets Mary Pickford with Peter Cusack sitting at table in this photo from May 05,1941. (AP Photo)

Lillian Gish appears April 19, 1941 in her role with the Chicago company of

Peanut vendor Steve Vassilakos, whose stand sits in front of the White House, remembers his homeland of Greece, when he posted a sign on his wagon ann...

Abe Simon hits the floor early in Friday's fight against Joe Louis in New York, March 22, 1941. (AP Photo).

Abe Simon goes through the ropes after a hard left hook from Joe Louis, who watches his opponent in the seventh round of their 20-round Bout in Detroi...

A policeman directs traffic during a bus strike at the intersection of 5th Ave. and 42nd St. in New York on March 15, 1941.The scene shows Fifth Ave....

Red Burman, Baltimore heavyweight, lies limply across the lower rope of Madison Square Garden's ring Jan.31 and blood pours from his mouth as referee...

Golfer Ben Hogan, missed the 18th green in the $5,000 Open Golf Tournament in Oakland, Ca., Jan. 11,1941 but managed to card a record-breaking 62, 8 u...

Posters Admonishing against Idle talk about defense plans in an effort to prevent defense secrets from creeping out made their appearance at the war d...

Billy Jefferson carried the ball over for Mississippi State's second touchdown in the Orange Bowl at Miami Jan. 1, 1941 plunging through a crowd of Ge...

Michigan's Tommy Harmon (98) eludes Fred Hartman (53) of Rice and Jim Kisselburgh of Oregon State, right, during annual East-West game at San Francisc...

Charles Chaplin and his brother, Sydney Chaplin, at right, shown together when Sydney starred in

This is the U.S. Marine Corps insignia, 1941. (AP Photo)

Football player Mel Hein of the New York Giants, November 20, 1940. (AP Photo)

Now that his film,

Boy Scout Donn Fendler is honored by President Franklin Roosevelt with a gold medal for valor October 15, 1940 in utilitizing boy scout woodlore and k...