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Bond for the Liberation of Western Europe on June 12, 1944 U.S. soldiers pile over the side from a coast guard assault transport off the French Coast...

These Crew members of a marauder medium bomber walk from their plane at an English base on June 11, 1944 after helping blast a path for allied forces...

A coast guard manned LCI boat, torn by shellfire, lists before sinking off the coast of France on June 9, 1944. Unscathed soldiers move swiftly about...

New York stock exchange stops trading between eleven and 11:02 a.m. as John A. Colman, chairman of the board of the New York Stock Exchange, on balcon...

American Paratroopers passing through street of St. Mere Eglise, on June 4, 1944.(AP Photo/Pool)

Tanks of an armored regiment roll onto the beach from the jaws of an LST in Anzio Harrbor, Italy, adding strength for Allied forces on the Italian bea...

Constance Cummings as Ruth in Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit' on May 2, 1944. (AP Photo)

U.S. Infantry patrol hits the ditch and begins to spread out on its mission to wipe Nazis out of a farmhouse in the Anzio area of Italy, May 1944. (AP...

These Illinois airmen are shown at a B-26 marauder bomber base in England on April 11, 1944 with their plane, 'Six Hits and a Miss' Left to right ar...

Lieutenant General Joseph Stillwell, commander of the U.S. Forces in the China-Burma-India area, relaxes upon a cot, on April 3, 1944, at his Headquar...

Coach Joe Lapchick (left), of St. John's puts his arm around Herb Wilkinson (28) as he congratulates the Utah basketball team after they beat his squa...

Coach Joe Lapchick, center, receives the National Invitational Basketball Tournament trophy from tournament Chairman John Coffey after his St. John's...

This is a German railroad gun and its crew somewhere along the Atlantic Coast, on March 25, 1944.(AP Photo)

Smoke of battle hangs over the blasted ruins of the German strongpoint of Monte Cassino, Italy, after the concentrated aerial and artillery bombardme...

Pvt. Robert Reyhons mans a ten-power artillery scope captured from the Germans to watch for German planes, while Pvt. Roy Hansen uses a field telephon...

Two days after the Allied amphibious landings on the West Coast of Italy South of Rome, these 5th army tanks were advancing towards the new front near...

The kitchen staff of New York's renowned restaurant, the Russian Tea Room, prepare food behind the scenes, Dec. 27, 1943. The Tea Room has been in op...

Joe Lapchick , St. John's basketball coach, is shown Dec. 23, 1943. (AP Photo)

Designer Walter Florell making adjustments on Kitty Carlisle's hat, Dec. 13, 1943 in New York. The

The ground crew of the flying fortress Hell's Angels complete maintenance work prior to sending the bomber on another mission from their U.S. army 8th...

Two Army nurses, Lt. Lorene Rages, left, and Lt. Urcil Couchman, turn over Cpl. Mendel Gordon at a hospital on Adak, Alaska, to place clean sheets on...

A group of American pilots of P-47 thunderbolt planes are gathered in the briefing room at the air station in England on Oct. 24, 1943 and listens to...

Actress Eleanor Powell and Sgt. Glenn Ford of the U. S. Marine Corps, former Hollywood actor, after their marriage, Oct. 23, 1943 at the Beverly Hill,...

Vehicles and soldiers board a flotilla of LST's (landing ship, tank) at a North African port, Oct. 22, 1943. (AP Photo)

The landing of Christopher Columbus is re-enacted at the Century of Progress Exposition on Columbus Day, Sept. 18, 1963 in Chicago. (AP Photo)

New York Yankees Manager Joe McCarthy poses, Sept. 14, 1943. (AP Photo)

A large plastic screen, center, blue in color, makes its appearance in the bleachers area as an experiment to eliminate the glare from white shirts in...

German caption said it was camouflaged exit of an Army Bunker. This greatest work of fortifications of all times is composed of fortress-link building...

On a troop convoy landing, June 18, 1943 at Tripoli-TLC shown with troops aboard. (AP Photo)

On a troop convoy landing, June 18, 1943 at Tripoli-TLC shown with troops aboard. (AP Photo)

In the face of Japanese fire from the fringe of low hanging fog banks, American soldiers advance after making their initial landing on Attu Island in...

U.S. Soldiers head for the bleak shor of the West arm of Holtz Bay, on Attu Island on May 11, 1943, in the invasion drive which has pushed the Japs ba...

Germans and other Axis soldiers, captured, Feb. 19, 1943 at Stalingrad, huddle from sharp winds, despair etched deeply in their expressions. (AP Photo...

Red Army soldiers laugh at captured Ersatz equipment, February 19, 1943. (AP Photo)

Nothing sissy about this typical group of mechanics at a flying fortress base in England on Feb. 10, 1943. The ground crew of the ship before they sta...

Red Army Marshal Nikolai N. Voronoff, second from left, questions a man identified as German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, right, at the Red Army's...

A German soldier straps on a pair of wicker workshoes, Jan. 27, 1943 in Russia which is designed to help him get over the mud and snow in Russia, with...

Eyes front, and hands up, two Axis soldiers march out of a battered building, followed by one of their Russian captors, January 25, 1943 in Stalingrad...

A German soldier tries to warm up a bit after doing guard duty on the Russian front, Jan. 18, 1943. Stove is homemade. (AP Photo)

Smartness on the parade ground and cheerfulness under all conditions are traditional characteristics of the royal West African frontier force.Photo sh...

A street scene in Teheran, Iran Dec. 11, 1942.. (AP Photo)

Waving British troops entering Tobruk, after the enemy had fled, Dec. 8, 1942. (AP Photo)

Union Jack is being raised to the top of a mast, Dec. 8, 1942 in Tobruk, Libya in place of a Swastika which lies at the base of the mast. (AP Photo)

Vanquished Germans, prisoners of the Red Army defenders of Stalingrad trudge past wrecked building in Stalingrad. 1943 photo. (AP Photo)

Field Marshal Gen. Friedrich Paulus is shown after his capture by the Russians, 1943. (AP Photo)

The Zariga Valley of Stalingrad after occupation by German troops, October 17, 1942. (AP Photo)

Siege gun firing in the great assault against the Russian city of Stalingrad, October 2, 1942. (AP Photo)

Photo show Harry Walker, cardinal outfielder, in St. Louis on Sept. 21, 1942. (AP Photo)

One of the main objectives of the German Drive on the Soviet Industrial City of Stalingrad is to gain control of the city's Volga River traffic facili...

Flying boats attached to the Soviet Black Sea fleet bombing enemy objectives. August 22, 1942 photo. (AP Photo)