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Soldiers of the Russian Army carry guns as Fascist prisoners reach the Russian rear. They were captured, July 7, 1942 in Stalingrad. (AP Photo)

A lone Nazis soldier stands guard at this machine gun post on the German held Channel Coast on June 25, 1942. The Nazis have many of these dotted alon...

These natives of Senegal stoking

Col. Don C. Faith, who will be in charge of training officers of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps at Fort Des Moines, is shown at his desk in the War...

In the mass ceremony, the largest in the history of the U.S. Army, 141 soldiers, eight of them wheelchairs recuperating from wounds, are decorated for...

Troops man a machine gun nest at Wheeler Field, which adjoins Schofield Barracks, in Hawaii on Dec. 31, 1941, after the Japanese attack on the Island...

Anti-Aircraft gunners of the United States army who fired on the Japanese planes during the surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941 in Wheeler Field, Hawaii....

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange listen at 12:32 P.M., December 8, 1941 as President Roosevelt stated that a state of war existed i...

The dance team of Don Loper and Maxine Barrett, at right, is shown in 1942. No other identifications available. ( AP Photo)

The dance team of Don Loper and Maxine Barrett, at left with hat, is shown in 1942. No other identifications available. ( AP Photo)

A scene in a village on the western front after the Germans had been driven out in Russia, 1942. (AP Photo)

Soviet handbills dropped behind German lines urging the Nazis to cease fighting are handed to Red Army soldiers to which they have surrendered volunta...

Unidentified children stand in line to attend a morning show in Harlem, Saturday, Nov. 29, 1941, New York City. (AP Photo)

A damaged Soviet warship in the harbour of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, Nov. 11, 1941, which was left in its badly battered state by the Russian when...

The harbour of Tallinn, capital and main port of Estonia, Nov. 19, 1941, which was left destroyed and in chaos after the Russian forces evacuated. The...

Russian prisoners of war are being marched to an internment camps along a road littered with destroyed vehicles, near Tallinn, Estonia, Nov. 11, 1941,...

Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians pitching ACE, smiles from the cockpit of a training plane after his sixth hour of solo flying at Cleveland Airport, Sept...

Actress Alexis Smith, playfully splashes in a stream in the latest Hollywood playsuit, Augist 24, 1941. (AP Photo)

Mel Ott, New York Giants outfielder, at bat during game with Brooklyn Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York City, May 30, 1941. (AP Photo)

Clyde Tolson, left, special assistant to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, at right, on board walk in Atlantic City, New Jersey on May 17, 1941. (AP Ph...

British Allied Troops carry away the stones with which the Italians marked the Southern Boundary of their East African Empire on the Kenya-Italian Som...

Troops passing over one of the few bridges left intact by the Italians in Libya, March 12, 1941. (AP Photo)

A British machine gun crew crouches for action during the attack, March 6, 1941 in Derna, Libya, which led to capture of the Libyan town from Italian...

A portion of the cavalry section of the Army's Hawaii division honors Ma. Ge. William Wilson, at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, March 1941. (AP Photo)

Bob Feller, star pitcher getting into shape, Feb. 28, 1941 in Fort Myer, Fla., for the coming season. (AP Photo)

A new simplified electron microscope is shown to the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York, Jan. 9, 1941, by RCA scientists. It operates by merely...

A British plane hauled out of the sea near Tiaroye, Oct. 25, 1940 and taken to the Arsenak. (AP Photo)

Cincinnati Reds players hoist their winning pitcher, Paul Derringer, atop their shoulders in dressing room after they had beaten the Detroit Tigers fo...

A typical military road on the Island of Oahu, where Hawaiian defenses are centered, Sept. 13, 1940 . (AP Photo)

Bill Terry and Mel Ott, left, in dugout, August 7, 1940. (AP Photo)

Stage director Joshua Logan and his new bride, actress Barbara O'Neil are shown at her parents' home in Greenwich, Conn., June 18, 1940, on their wedd...

Mel Ott, New York Giants slugger, is shown ducking fast in the second inning of the game with the Boston Bees in New York, April 26, 1940, to avoid be...

Three Grumman fighting pursuit planes of the U.S. Navy are shown in section formation over the Southern California coast-line near San Diego, March 16...

Actress Fay Wray, left, March 11, 1940. (AP Photo)

Thirty nine year old Henry S. Morgan, above younger son of the famed

Members of the Hitler Youth in training Nov. 3, 1939. (AP Photo)

William Bucky Walters of the Cincinnati Reds shown Sept. 29, 1939. (AP Photo)

Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, wife of the United States Ambassador to Great Britain (right) with her two elder daughters, Kathleen (left) and Eunice, and he...

Ambrose Schindler, Sept. 14, 1939, back, University Southern California. (AP Photo)

Former stripper Gypsy Rose Lee is shown in her dressing room preparing for her role as one of the Floradora girls in the Broadway revue of

Joseph Kennedy, the United States Ambassador to London, and Mrs. Kennedy, with their children, photographed as they left the Vatican City on March 20,...

Mrs. Rose Kennedy, wife of the American Ambassador to London, skating with her son, Teddy and daughter Jean, at Suvretta, St. Moritz, Switzerland on J...

Dragonerstrasse and Muenzsttasse, in Berlin, where authorities have issued 'instructions' that Jews living in the city would be 'advised' to live in t...

Muenzsttasse, in Berlin, where authorities have issued 'instructions' that Jews living in the city would be 'advised' to live in this quarter in futur...

American Financier J. P. Morgan Jr. poses in his sitting room on the Queen Mary, after a long vacation in England and Scotland, Nov. 17, 1938, New Yor...

After playing six months in London in a show titled

Gypsy Rose Lee of strip-tease fame, is shown rolling down a stocking in San Francisco, Oct. 19, 1938. (AP Photo)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, centre, talks with a director of John Brown Shipyard whilst Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret Rose, hat only...

The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth goes down the slipway after being named and launched by Queen Elizabeth, unseen, in Clydebank, Scotland, Sept. 27, 1...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, centre, waves to the crowds in John Brown Shipyard, along with Princess Elizabeth, right, and Princess Margaret Rose, left,...