AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

C. T. Koerner (left), engineer of Southern California Telephone Company, and L. R. Montfort (center) and Nean Lund, members of the technical staff of...

Richard L. Hayes (left) and Byron Graff, repairmen for the Southern California Telephone Company, are shown on the top of the tower which will be used...

Arturo Toscanini conducts a symphony at LaScala Opera House, Milan, Italy, May 11, 1946. The concert was the conduct's first appearance on an Italian...

War trial in Japan May 10, 1946. Left to right; Yoshijiro Umezu, Sadao Araki, Akira Muto, back row; Kiichiro Hiranuma, Shigeru Togo, Yosuke Matsuoka a...

Heavy weight champion Joe Louis has his hands tapped by trainer Manny Seamon as he opens the boxing phase of his preparation for his fight with Bil...

Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion, takes to a rowboat on Great Bear Lake, Michigan, May 3, 1948. during training for his forthcoming title defens...

This is the six-key vestpocket

The appalling power of tidal waves is graphically illustrated in this picture taken at Hilo, Hawaii about 7:20a.m., April 1, 1946. In view, a tremendo...

Karl Shapiro, the Baltimore, Md., poet, seen here March 29, 1956, who has been called a

The nation's two top swoon-kings met for half -an-hour when Van Johnson visited Frank Sinatra on the latter's CBS Radio program, broadcast at the WAVE...

Associated Press Science Editor Howard Blakeslee, March 18,1946. (AP Photo)

In the heart of Chinatown in Havana, Cuba, a Chinese street vendor is shown waiting in the street for a customer to come along and buy one of his duck...

Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tiger batting star, stands with his bride, the former Caral Gimbel, at St. Simons Island, GA., February 19, 1946 just before t...

A view of Havana's famous Prado Avenue as seen from Virtudes street in Cuba Feb. 15, 1946. (AP Photo/Charles Kenneth Lucas)

A view of Havana's famous Prado Avenue as seen from Virtudes street in Cuba Feb. 15, 1946. (AP Photo/Charles Kenneth Lucas)

Henry C. Clausen, former lieutenant colonel, listens to a question asked of him as he testifies at the joint congression Peal Harbor inquiry evening s...

This is a view of the Morro Castle, the fort defending the entrance to Havana Harbor, Feb. 3, 1946. The entrance to the harbor is shown in the backgro...

Chilean poet and Nobel winner Gabriela Mistral is seen at a press conference after her arrival in Rome, Jan. 30, 1946, where she urged a greater cultu...

Sailors of the U.S. Seventh Fleet have liberty in one of China 's world famous ports, Hong Kong, January 29, 1946.The U.S. Navy, which is helping Chin...

Students at the University of Kentucky welcome Paul

Leading fireman McCabe holds a walkie talkie radio apparatus which is now being used by London's National Fire Service in fighting fires in London Jan...

Former GI's, wearing their service uniforms, parade in Chicago's Loop, Jan. 12, 1946, carrying a flag and signs protesting delay in bringing buddies h...

Steve Van Buren, only unanimous choice on the Associated Press All-Professional Football Team. Van Buren holds up a card in Philadelphia displaying 11...

Gen. Joseph Stilwell pins the Distinguished Service Cross on the dress of Mary Masuda in honor of her brother, S/Sgt. Kazuo Masuda, a Japanese-Americ...

Mary Masuda, of the Santa Ana, Calif. will receive for her brother, Kazuo Masuda, the distinguished service cross during a post humous award ceremony...

Ernie Fischer of Associated Press in Bern, Switzerland, December 3, 1945. (AP Photo)

This is a diagram of every play in the 1946 Army-Notre Dame football game. (AP Photo)

E. Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt who committed suicide in Cairo , April 4, 1957. This is a 1946 photo. (AP Photo)

James Joy Johnston, fight promoter and manager, talks to reporter in his office in New York, Nov. 27, 1945 the day before his 70th birthday. Johns...

U.S. President Harry Truman, center, holds the Hubbard Medal, highest award of the National Geographic Society for outstanding accomplishments in sci...

Seen here is the Army Football team, Nov 09, 1945, left to right: Thomas McWilliams, Arnold Tucker, Col. Earl Blaik (coach), Felix Blanchard and Glenn...

Associated Press correspondent Hal Boyle, far left, and AP foreign news editor Glen Babb stand with photographer Frank Filan, at right, sailing from...

Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, temporary chairman, presides during the opening session of the Allied Advisory Commission on Japan in the State Department,...

Coach Wallace Butts, seated at center, goes over strategy with his Georgia Bulldogs in a hotel room before the game in Birmingham against Alabama, Oct...

Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, former commander of all Japanese forces on the Philippines and said to be responsible for the Bataan death march, as he appea...

Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander of the British Pacific Fleet,enjoys a laugh with the Matron, second from left, and Chinese girls of the Tai Po orp...

The entrance to Shangri-La, in Thurmont, Md., the wartime retreat of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is guarded by Marine Pfc. Joseph Leszynski, Oct....

This is President Franklin D. Roosevelt's wartime retreat in the mountains, Shangri-La, at Thurmont, Md., seen Sept. 30, 1945. (AP Photo)

After viewing a bronze plaque of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S. Truman, left, meets the sculptress, Selma Burke, second from right, 38, a f...

Orban Sanders, September 24, 1940. (AP Photo)

This is a photo of Scollay Square in Boston, September 19,1945. (AP Photo)

After nearly four years in Japanes hands, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony since 1842, was relleved by a task force from the British Pacific Fleet unde...

After nearly four years in Japanes hands, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony since 1842, was relleved by a task force from the British Pacific Fleet unde...

After nearly four years in Japanes hands, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony since 1842, was relleved by a task force from the British Pacific Fleet unde...

Mrs. Ethel Sampson, seen here in Evanston, Ill. Sept. 17, 1945, shows a patchwork quilt which she started in 1932 with pieces of cloth she received fr...

Weary POWs lounge around at Chitose Airfield waiting to be processed by Army officers after their liberation on Hokkaido, Sept. 15, 1945. (AP Photo)

Weary POWs lounge around at Chitose Airfield waiting to be processed by Army officers after their liberation on Hokkaido, Sept. 15, 1945. (AP Photo)

Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, who surrendered himself to U.S. occupation forces in Tokyo, is seen resting in the Philippines September 15, 1945. (AP Photo)

American airmen at Ofuna prison camp near Yokohama, Japan, cheer the news that they are to be transported directly to the United States by plane, Sept...

Navy and Army fliers who were shot down and held as prisoners by the Japanese, depart from Ofuna prison camp in trucks, Sept. 7, 1945. (AP Photo/Fran...