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President Harry S. Truman reads to newsmen his announcement of the Japanese surrender officially signaling the war's end during a White House, Washing...

San Franciscans are shown celebrating the Japanese surrender, known as V-J Day, on August 14, 1945. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)

A military policeman, left, guards the wreckage of a B-25 Bomber after the low-flying plane crashed through the north wall of the 79th floor of the Em...

Between sessions of the

American and Canadian troops pack the aft decks of the HMS Queen Mary as she steams into New York harbor on July 11, 1945 at the end of her voyage fro...

These sailors who like to take their fun near the ocean, take their dates for a ride on the auto-whip at one of Coney Island's many amusement rides, M...

President Truman sits before a microphone, holding his speech, at the White House, Washington, DC, May 8, 1945, after he had finished reading his anno...

This general view of Times Square, New York, was made at 11 a.m. on May 7, 1945, and shows New Yorkers jamming the streets to cheer the news of the un...

A Japanese Zero, its pilot suicide bent, tries to maneuver so as to crash on the deck of a U.S. warship somewhere in the Pacific, May 2, 1945. The ef...

Cpl. William C. LaRue of the Bronx, N.Y., displays the New York Post and the New York World Telegram proclaiming

President Harry S. Truman, center, reiterates the demands for unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan, as he makes his first address April 16, 19...

Senators, Congressmen, Cabinet members, and the U.S. Supreme Court bench sit in the House of Representatives as they listen to President Truman (stand...

Against a flower-banked altar in the East Room of the White House rests the flag-draped casket of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, flanked by...

The caisson bearing the body of President Roosevelt in a Flag-draped casket passes the front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1945...

Crowds keep vigil on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, standing on the edge of Lafayette Park, on the news of beloved President Frankli...

A U.S. Marine from the 6th Marine Division charges forward through Japanese machine gun fire in

Liberating soldiers of Lt. General George S. Patton's 3rd Army, XX Corps, are shown at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, April 11, 1...

With his hands in the air, the first of 20 Japanese emerges from an Iwo Jima cave on April 5, 1945. The group had been hiding for several days. (AP...

Richard Wright, whose recently published autobiography,

A German sniper captured with his comrade by soldiers of Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army in Germany, March 26, 1945. The sniper in the foreground was...

Novelist Richard Wright, photographed in New York City, March 21, 1945, just after publication of his autobiography,

President Roosevelt (right) talks with King Farouk of Egypt, wearing an Admiral's uniform, aboard a U.S. warship in the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt dur...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud discuss Saudi-U.S. relations aboard USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake north of the...

Fingering his glasses, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, left, confers at the luncheon table with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain at...

Harry S. Truman, Vice President-elect, left, talks with Eleanor Roosevelt at the inauguration eve dinner in Washington, January 19, 1945. (AP Photo/s...

Actor Burgess Meredith is shown in this 1945 photo in New York City. Meredith, the versatile, raspy-voiced actor whose film roles over 60 years inclu...

Jane Russell, who has anguished in idleness under contract to Howard Hughes for three years, smiles happily in anticipation of her return to acting be...

From left to right: President Roosevelt, Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman, and Vice President Henry A. Wallace, ride in car amid crowd as they arr...

Upon his return to Washington, D.C., November 10, 1944, President Roosevelt is met at Union Station by Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman, center, a...

Jamming the Paramount Theater in Times Square, New York City, October 12, 1944, these fans of singer Frank Sinatra cheer and wave as he sings on the s...

Meeting for the first time since their nominations, President Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Vice Presidential candidate, plan their campaigns as they...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, sitting with Harry S. Truman at an outdoor lunch table on August 18, 1944. (AP Photo/stf)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, sits with Harry S. Truman at an outdoor lunch table on August 18, 1944.(AP Photo/stf)

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Suzie, the girl with the elephant skin, is one of many sideshow at Coney Island's

The bartender at the El Morocco mixes drinks for two young ladies and their servicemen escorts in New York City on April 4, 1944. (AP Photo/John Lent...

Rick Ferrell, veteran catcher, limbers up as he joins the Washington Senators' spring training camp at the University of Maryland's field at College P...

Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, dresses up in a uniform like that worn in the days when the great A's club of 1910 - 14 was winnin...

John F. Kennedy, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, is pictured as a 26 year old Navy lieutenant in Los Angeles, January 10, 194...

These are 1944 photos of President Roosevelt, who died at Warm Springs, Ga., April 12, 1945. The picture at the left was made as he celebrated his 39...

Allied leaders of Britain, U.S.A., and U.S.S.R. met in Tehran, capital of Persia, December 6, 1943 to discuss the war against Germany. Military and d...

While seated in a jeep, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to U.S. Army troops at a camp near Tehran, site of the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin m...

Turning her skating experience to excellent advantage, Sonja Henie executes a ballroom exhibition dance routine in her latest picture, Wintertime, S...

Political leaders gathered atop the Citadel of Quebec during the second Quebec Conference in Quebec, Canada, on August 19, 1943. Seated from left to...

Actor Orson Welles has a new leading role. In a big circus tent in Hollywood, California, the versatile actor is holding forth as a magician, August...

In a big circus tent on Hollywood's La Cienega Boulevard, spectators, mostly servicemen and their girlfriends, sit on the edge of their chairs and mar...

Soldiers cheered when Rita Hayworth, film star, was found again in a trunk, after Orson Welles, director-magician, had tied her in ropes and caused he...

Smoke billows from an unoccupied automobile which was set on fire during the morning of August 2, 1943 in fresh disorders which broke out in Harlem, N...

Clothier's dummies from a smashed store window are strewn across this sidewalk on West 125th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, New York City...

Police lead an unidentified woman to patrol cars during disorders in the Harlem area of New York, August 2, 1943, marked by the shooting of a policema...