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U.S. infantrymen, deployed on a field on Jan.6,1945 in Belgium, inch ahead under barbed wire fences as they advance toward Bastogne and the relief of...

Grim-faced Tulsa Left halfback Perry Moss, ball cradled in arm, charges toward the Georgia Tech line for a five yard gain, in the early stages of the...

Actress Gene Tierney, one of the stars in the movie version of

Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, Major Gen. James Gavin Dec.10,1944 of Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA. Gavin led his men through Sicily, Ital...

Jumping the highest of the three, Giants back Ward Cuff, center, snares the ball to intercept a Washington pass intended for Andy Farkas, right, in th...

Actor Lionel Barrymore, right, is seen in his role as Dr. Gillespie in

Liberated Russians with their belongings loaded onto all kinds of hand-crafts, seen as they pass along the Charlottenburger Chaussee in Berlin on thei...

Glenn Davis Army back from Los Angeles, California, shown in Nov. 28, 1944, has been named on the Associated Press 1944 College All-American football...

Glenn Davis of Claremont, California, was a sensation last year in the Army backfield and has unsual speed. Has four letters in four different high sc...

Glenn W. Davis, Army Football Player shown Nov. 21,1944.(AP Photo)

In a Muddy village near Maison Blanche, Algeria, November 16. 1944, the army DDT Dusting Team of T/4 Henry Van Wart of Bridgeport, Conn., and LT. Arno...

This big-name sextet making a recording for the GI's overseas Christmas broadcast on Oct. 30, 1944 in Hollywood, Calif. during World War II. The g...

Photo shows gun after a sustained bombing attack of the German garrison and fortified positions which lasted ten days. The Canadians are now mopping u...

An Anti Tank ditch cuts into the lovely countryside South of Futa Pass in the Gothic Line, in the Apennine mountains, Italy, Oct. 8,1944. (AP Photo)

An American soldier is the center of an Impromptu street celebration on Sept. 25, 1944 in Maastricht, first Holland city to be liberated by U.S. Force...

An American patrol works its way back into their own lines after encounter with Germans Sept. 10,1944 near Briancon in the Italian Alps. Snow-capped m...

This is how Bing Crosby looked without toupee as he posed on Aug. 31, 1944 in London, the inevitable pipe in hand, this week before going off to ente...

The Atlantic Wall shown on August 26, 1944, German defense fortress, in the vicinity of St. Malo, France which fell under the pressure of the allied d...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, center with rolled-up sleeves, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces Southeast Asia Theater, is greeted by Brig. Gen. Kenneth B....

American soldier inspect the rear of a German fortification overlooking a Normandy beachhead point June 27, 1944. Naval Shellfire knocked out the defe...

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This photograph which arrived in the United States on June 8, 1944 from a neutral source, shows lines of reinforced concrete anti-tank obstacles on th...

Robert W. Service with his dog Dinkyon May 31,1944 in Hollywood, California .(AP Photo)

Betty Carstairs, English speedboat racer, sits on the Bowsprit of her former Yacht Sonia 2 now the Flagship of her fleet of four cargo boats which ope...

Reconstruction on a ramp leading to the Brooklyn Bridge is seen in full swing, with buildings of lower Manhattan in the background, May 10, 1944. (AP...

Troops march ashore from LST's on April 22,1944 at Anzio Beachead in Italy. Note rubble and damage to buildings along the shore front. (AP Photo)

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A British Naval Air Station has been set up on the banks of a river in the African jungle on March 30, 1944. The station has been cut out of the bush...

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first woman doctor, February 3, 1821 May 31, 1910. (AP Photo)

American tanks move up the road to Rome picture show on March 2,1944 in Anzio, Rome toward the bursts of smoke which mark the Italian beachhead front...

Pvt. Marion Bell, (center), of St. Louis, Missouri, signs the title song from the scen

American Litter-bearers walk briskly as they carry a wounded Yank near Anzio on the Allied Beachhead South picture show on Feb.12,1944 of Rome. (AP Ph...

Actress Judy Garland and Lt. Robert Stack, former movie actor at the Mocambo in Hollywood January 30, 1944. (AP Photo)

Actor Peter Lorre, left, and wife are shopping January 27, 1944 at Schwab's Drug Store in Hollywood. (AP Photo)

Peg-'O-My-Heart,

Stretchers bearers carry a wounded American Soldier of the Allied 5th Army to safety on the outskirts of the Italian Village picture show on Jan.22,19...

Member of the Woman's Army Corps enjoying a hot of coffee after a hard day's work with their communications company in Algiers shown on Jan. 14, 1944...

Coach Steve Owen, of the New York Giants, talks with his rookie stars, Emery Nix, left, and Bill Paschal, after a practice session at the Polo grounds...

Womens bags and leather folders were popular items at the Post Exchange Gift Shop shown on Dec. 7, 1943 in Algiers. Clerk Pvt. Albert Piergivonnii, Yo...

U.S.servicemen and WAC examining native Moroccan change purses in the Post Exchange Gift Shop shown on Dec. 7, 1943 in Algiers. They are left to right...

Two U.S. Marines, center, barely visible due to camouflage suits, hide behind stumps of palm trees as they blast, with dynamite, a Japanese sniper's p...

Troops of the 34th Infantry division operating in Italy, march into Pratella on Dec. 2, 1943. This division is composed largely of Iowa National Guard...

Singer Paul Robeson, Jr., 17-year-old son of the famed baritone, is shown in 1944. (AP Photo)

Young actress Elizabeth Taylor is seen playing a girl who wins a horse in a raffle in

Life magazine staffer Shelley Mydans, center, who, with her husband Carl Mydans, was among the Allied internees exchanged by the Japanese in mid-Octob...

Dr. Lyle D. Goodhue, left, research chemist of the Dept. of Agriculture, converses with Dr. O. H. Perry Pepper, Professor of Medicine, University of P...

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia Command, with British military and civil officials who were among the Allied...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, right, who commands the allied troops preparing for the Burma campaign, is greeted by Gen. George E. Strateneyer, upon his arr...

An American Ranger hands out rations to Italian civilians, among them several children, who assisted 5th Army troops in carrying supplies up a Mountai...

Singer Paul Robeson is shown as Othello and Uta Hagen as Desdemona at the Shubert Theater in New York, Oct. 13, 1943. (AP Photo)