AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Shown on the bridge of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific left to right are; Associated Press correspondent Eugene Burns, Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sh...

This is a gasoline rationing card, seen in 1942. (AP Photo)

Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears, 1942. (AP Photo)

Coach Earl H. Blaik, right, and Capt. Ray Murphy of the Army team are seen, Nov. 28, 1941, location unknown. (AP Photo)

Hungarian minister to the U.S. until the Nazis took control of his country, John Pelenyi, left, is shown with two of his students at Dartmouth College...

Ready for the field, one of America's Army of Liberty planes which did service in the campaigns of the first and second Armies . This machine is recei...

A German fire thrower, attacks a Soviet Bunker as artillery shells explode in the background, somewhwhere on the Eastern Front, October 17, 1941. (AP...

U.S. Army Lieut. Richard Lynch, center pointing, of Camp Grant, Illinois, explains to heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis beside him, the workings...

German prisoners captured by Soviet forces in the recent fighting October 5, 1941, being marched to a field prison camp under strong escort. The Russi...

Lou Nova goes down in the sixth round of his fight with champion Joe Louis at the Polo Grounds, New York, Sept. 29, 1041 As referee Arthur Donovan...

Heavyweight champion Joe Louis's hand is raised in token of victory after his sixth-round technical knockout of Lou Nova in the nineteenth defense of...

Boxer Lou Nova down on the canvas in the sixth round of his title bout fight with heavyweight champion Joe Louis on September 29, 1941 at the Polo Gro...

Bleeding Lou Nova is helped by his handlers to his corner after referee Arthur Donvan stopped his title bout with Joe Louis near the end of the sixth...

Tractor- Mounted Cannon moving up for assault past German infantry lines in fighting on the Eastern front September 27, 1941. (AP Photo)

Louis trains for Nova and the U.S. Army as Jack Blackburn, left, handles the controls of an ancient vintage automobile at Greenwood, N.Y., Sept 13,...

Actors Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan, described as among Hollywood's happily-married couples, are holding their 9-month-old daughter Maureen Elizabeth,...

King Peter of Yugoslavia tries his hand at handling an anti-aircraft gun outside of London, August 30, 1941. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated right, were surrounded by their Amy and Navy chieftains when they held th...

King Peter looks into a Bomb Hatch standing underneath a British Bomber somewhere in England, August 12, 1941. Yugoslavia's King Peter looks into the...

German machine gunners defending a bridge against attack from the houses in background somewhere on the Russian front, August 6, 1941. (AP Photo)

With its inventor, A.J. Haskins, hugging the sides, this 22-ton steel and concrete boat was launched in the Blue River in Kansas City, Mo. on Aug. 5,...

Brooklyn Dodgers' manager Leo Durocher argues with umpire Bill Stewart until Stewart ejected him from the game against the Cubs in Chicago, Aug. 2, 19...

A Russian Tank, defends itself against German advancing forces July 28, 1941. (AP Photo)

Wreckage of a building which Russian sources described as a school in Moscow after bombing by German planes July 25, 1941. (AP Photo)

The explosion of a Soviet barrage balloon over Moscow, with which a German bomber collided during a raid on that city July 10, 1941, emitted such heat...

The parade marking the fourth anniversary of China's resistance to Japanese aggression winds its way through New York's Chinatown, July 7, 1941. (AP...

King Peter of Yugoslavia, whose reign lasted less than three weeks, is greeted by his mother at her country home in England, when he arrived in that c...

Joe Louis puts his signature on a contract to defend his heavyweight boxing crown against Billy Conn, at right, of Pittsburgh in a fight match in New...

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and promoter Mike Jacob, right, talk over the Billy Conn bout and what's to come, after Louis disposed of chall...

King Peter II of Yugoslavia (right) marching to a special service in the cathedral, held on March 28, 1941, the day after he became King, in celebrati...

View of the Peiping Branch of the National City Bank of New York on April 3, 1941, the only American bank in Peiping. This bank is situated in the hea...

View of the Peiping Branch of the National City Bank of New York on April 3, 1941, the only American bank in Peiping. This bank is situated in the hea...

View of the Peiping Branch of the National City Bank of New York on April 3, 1941, the only American bank in Peiping. This bank is situated in the hea...

Banners of various labor organization were displayed near the casket of James B. McNamara as funeral services were held in San Francisco March 15, 194...

Bettors and spectators watch horses leave the paddock at Hialeah Park in Miami on the final day of the racing season March 3, 1941. Some 21,000 people...

Bettors and spectators crowd Hialeah Park in Miami for the final day of the racing season March 3, 1941. Some 21,000 people saw the defeat of the migh...

Small boats add to the traffic on the Singapore River in Singapore, Feb. 24, 1941. (AP Photo)

Work goes on night and day at Camp Gordon near Atlanta, Ga., under giant floodlights, Feb. 1, 1941. The night crew operates the big

Heavily-wrapped American Legion volunteers kept a cold vigil atop the Empire State Building, watching for

German Anti-Aircraft guns belch smoke somewhere along the Channel coast of France, January 19, 1941. (AP Photo)

Bettors and spectators crowd Hialeah Park in Miami for the opening day of the racing season Jan, 8, 1941. (AP Photo)

In this view looking north from the New York Times building in New York, a crowd estimated at 500,000 gathers to usher in the new year, Dec. 31, 1940....

Tommy Harmon in game with California University as fan tries to stop him, December 28, 1940. (AP Photo)

Referee Johnny Martin raises the arm of boxer Joe Louis after the champion was declared the winner in his heavyweight bout against Al McCoy in Boston...

Mrs. Rose McMullin, left, of Washington D.C., widely known as

The famous Radio City Rockettes present the Highland Fling, Dec. 2, 1940, in New York, marking the first time they performed Scottish style. (AP Phot...

Dorothy Lam is seen wearing a traditional Chinese outfit on Chinese New Year, 1941, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

New York model Mary Jane Swanson gives blood to be used to aid Britain's war victims in New York on Nov. 28, 1940. Swanson's nurse is Mrs. J.J. Kenned...

The motorized division of Pasubio march before Mussolini during the Italian leader's tour of northern Italy, Oct. 23, 1940. (AP Photo)

Pictured here is the dining room of the Merle Thorpe Estate at Bethesda, Md, Oct. 15, 1940, leased by the Crown Princess Martha of Norway. (AP Photo)