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Danny Fortmann of Chicago Bears during football action, November 24, 1941. (AP Photo)

Actress Hedy Lamarr is photographed on set with a business-like pompadour for her new film, in Hollywood, Calif., Nov. 3, 1941. (AP Photo)

Female employees inspect copper coins for flaws as the pennies go by on belts at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, Oct. 29, 1941. The man in foreground i...

Heavyweight champion Joe Louis demonstrates his chest expansion for Dr. Herbert Turner as he takes his preliminary physical examination for the milita...

A huge Chinese flag which caught thousands of coins is carried through the streets of New York's Chinatown, Oct. 10, 1941, as Chinese Americans celebr...

Robert Brunnelle Associated Press Chief of Bureau in London in his office, October 1, 1941. (AP Photo)

Dr. Joseph Goebbels, center, chats with Louis Lochner, left, head of the Associated Press Berlin Bureau and MiJnherr Van Maastdyk of the Dutch Newspa...

Champion Joe Louis transforms his usual dead-pan expression into a broad grin in his dressinjg room after his championship fight with Lou Nova at the...

Russian soldiers proceeding to the front lines, September 26, 1941. The city of Odessa and its environs have been withstanding siege for weeks. (AP Ph...

General Heinz Guderian, right, commander of a German tank group, talks with tank crew member after a battle on the Russian front, September 26, 1941.(...

A pusher-type flying boat circles over ships of the Russian Navy on patrol, according to Russian sources September 16, 1941. (AP Photo)

Eastern front German anti-tank guns have taken their positions September 12, 1941. (AP Photo)

Albert Wistert, tackle for the University of Michigan seen here in Ann Arbor, Sept. 9, 1941. (AP Photo)

George Bernard Shaw Gazes across the lawn as he stands in front of Cliveden, the country estate of Lord and Lady Astor in Buckinghamshire, England whe...

Two prisoners in San Quentin prison listen to radio programs through earphones in their cell over a new system put in operation on Aug. 24, 1941. The...

Film actor Mickey Rooney celebrates his 21st birthday Sept. 23, 1941 at a party in a Hollywood night club. Here he slices his birthday cake with (left...

Soviet troops pass out bread to what Moscow sources describe as German prisoners of war August 18, 1941. (AP Photo)

Only the dome and a few parts of the building's walls remained August 9, 1941after the Germans bombed Moscow. (AP Photo)

Marking he eve of his 85th birthday with an interview in London Jul. 25, 1941, George Bernard Show, famed English humorist and playwright said

Chief correspondent of the Berlin bureau of the Associated press, Louis Lochner, made a tour of inspection of the Balcan battlefield upon invitation o...

The HMS Prince of Wales battleship is shown in a photo on June 4, 1941. (AP Photo)

Dejected German Jewish refugees denied admittance to Cuba, in deckchairs on the German Liner Saint Louis, June 1, 1939. (AP Photo)

Dejected German Jewish refugees denied admittance to Cuba, in deckchairs on the German Liner Saint Louis, June 1, 1939. (AP Photo)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles A. Lindbergh, receives a round of applause from the crowd attending a meeting of the Philadelphia branch of the...

This is the giant British battle cruiser Hood as she looked before the war on May 24, 1941. The British admiralty announced, May 24, the 42,100-ton Ho...

Ante Pavelic, left, and Benito Mussolini salute the crowd below from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia on May 18, 1941 in Rome. (AP Photo)

Dangling precariously over a busy Chicago intersection is a passengerless car of an elevated train that crashed through the bumper on a stub-end track...

A section of the 5,000 men who were

The intersection of Ivey Street, left, and Peachtree Street, center, and Forsyth Street, right is seen in this night view of Atlanta, April 22, 1941....

The Fuhrer speaks during a conference in front of his headquarters on the morning of his birthday, April 20, 1941. From left to right are, the Comman...

Although he defeated Tony Musto, the Chicago challenger, by technical ko in the ninth round, champion Joe Louis was able to floor Musto only once--as...

Blood flowed as Tony Musto, the Chicago challenger, was battered by Joe Louis April 8, 1941 in their match at St. Louis, where the heavyweight champ...

St. Louis Browns pitcher Elden Auker known for his subramine pitching style, March 9, 1941. (AP Photo)

Kirke Simpson, who started his newspaper career as a cub reporter, is shown at his desk writing his daily column,

Eddie Arcaro washes his face in a bucket of water after riding Whirlaway to victory in the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Ky., May 3, 1941. (AP Photo)

The sign over this Chinese shop in Peiping's Tartar City says, in English :

Gloria Swanson stops for chat with Drothy Lamour, at right, in Hollywood, Feb.21, 1949 as the glamour star of two decades ago returned to the sound s...

Gus Dorazio, no.14 in heavyweight champion Joe Louis knockout toll, is completely out after the end of the count and referee Irving Kutcher tries to l...

Stage dancer, Nadine Gae, poses in front of a backdrop of newspapers while wearing flashbulbs in New York, Feb. 11, 1941. Nadine will be one of the fe...

Cuban President Fulgencio Batista is seen during a broadcast to the Cuban people, Feb. 5, 1941. (AP Photo)

Buddhist abbot Yu Feng Sung prays to the Kitchen God as Los Angeles Chinese Americans prepare for the Chinese New Year, Jan. 27, 1941. (AP Photo)

A pair of upper Michigan sawyers stand back as a forest giant they have just sawed begins to fall, Jan. 19, 1941. (AP Photo)

These World War type submarines, tied up in the Navy Yard in Philadelphia for a dozen years, are being reconditional and some already are in active se...

Chinese soldiers in the British Army walking in Hong Kong, January 8, 1941. (AP Photo)

Lieut. John Casey, U.S Navy Reserve and Ensign Armand Deutsch, congratulate champion Joe Louis at his training camp at Greenwood Lake, N.Y., January 6...

Paul Brown (left), football coach at Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, outlines one of his favorite plays for Lynn W. St. John, Ohio State Un...

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis munched an apple and said

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis waves good-by to Boston fans on December 16, 1940 after he won by a technical kayo over Al McCoy, of Maine. L...

The town of Santa Claus, Indiana is shown on Dec. 15, 1940. (AP Photo)

A local Kachin tribesman makes a gift of a chicken, some deer meat, and a bamboo bottle of rice beer to Brig. Gen. Frank D. Merrill, commander of U.S....