AP Historical Hard Drive 2001

Soviet Premier Josef Stalin poses at the Potsdam Conference in Germany, Aug. 6, 1945. (AP Photo)

American GI's move cautiously down a street on the look-out for a sniper hidden amid the ruins in Cologne, Germany, in Aug. 1945 during World War II....

U.S. President Harry S. Truman, left, is greeted by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower upon his arrival at Antwerp, Belgium, July 20, 1945 during World War II. T...

Jack Benny, violinist and comedian, is carried on the shoulders of a group of soldiers July 4,1945 through a crowd of 40,000 GIs. The GIs were attendi...

A U.S. marine of the Sixth Marine Division uses a flame thrower aimed at a cave on southern Okinawa on Ryukyu Islands on June 22, 1945 during World Wa...

On the outskirts of Gakiya on Theya in the Ryukyu Islands, U.S. Marines of the Eighth Regimental Combat Team prepare positions along a stone wall to m...

Parachute bombs dropped by B-25 Mitchell bombers of the U.S. Army 5th Air Force burst in the Chickunan Railroad yards on Formosa as American forces co...

Actor Humphrey Bogart and his wife, actress Lauren Bacall, are shown on his 28-foot sailboat at Balboa Bay, Ca., on June 4, 1945. (AP Photo)

Medical corpsmen administers blood plasma to a wounded U.S. Marine on the battlefield overlooking Naha, capital of Okinawa, Ryukyu Island, Japan, on J...

A U.S. Marine spotter plane flies an artillery control mission over the front lines on Okinawa, Japan on June 2, 1945 during World War II. Below, smo...

U.S. Marines take cover behind tattered tombstones during their advance across cemetery ridge on Okinawa, Ryukyu Island, as enemy bullets pass overhea...

British naval officers inspect a completed two-man Midget U-Boat in a gigantic shelter, where it arrived in sections and was assembled somewhere in Ge...

Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-Ohio, candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, addresses a luncheon at Trenton, N.J. on May 21, 1945. At left is...

Actor Humphrey Bogart and actress Lauren Bacall are shown at a train station before they board the Santa Fe in Los Angeles, Ca., on May 18, 1945. The...

Two U.S. soldiers of the First Division Marines close in on a Japanese position using flame throwers on Ryukuyus Island, Okinawa, Japan, on May 14, 1...

A wounded U.S. Marine lies on a stretcher with his head on his pack while a Navy hospital corpsman, right, administers blood plasma behind the lines o...

A truck carrying the daily bread ration for concentration camp prisoners arrives at Dachau, West Germany, May 12, 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo...

German Marshal Hermann Goering is shown during his interview with reporters in Augsburg, Germany, on May 11, 1945. Goering surrendered to the U.S. Ar...

A Japanese family returns from a relocation center camp in Hunt, Idaho, to find their home and garage vandalized with anti-Japanese graffiti and broke...

St. Paul's Cathedral, one of the buildings that survived the wartime blitzes, is shown at night in floodlighting for the first time in nearly six year...

A crowd gathers to celebrate V-E Day at Piccadilly Circus in London, England, on May 8, 1945. The statute of Eros in the center of the square has bee...

Two men climb a lamppost during nighttime VE Day celebrations in the West End of London, England, on May 7, 1945. (AP Photo)

Bobby Jones, left, makes a putt during a rare appearance since his retirement in 1930 in Lakeland, Fla., on May 6, 1945. Jones plays with Earl Christ...

Anti-aircraft gunners, center foreground, pour a deadly stream of fire into the already-burning Japanese Kamikaze plane plumeting toward the flight de...

An American G.I. of the 7th Division walks behind two German civilians who carry the body of a prisoner murdered by Nazi SS guards at the Landsberg co...

Col. Gen. Dinitri Sviataiev, right, of the 33rd Soviet Army, embraces Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, U.S. Ninth Army, at ceremonies on the western front...

Dachau prisoners cheer their liberators of the 42nd Rainbow Division of the 7th U.S. Army as they wave from behind the wire fence at the concentration...

Lt. Col. Ed Seiller, head of the military government section of the 12th Armoured Division, U.S. Army, talks to German civilians as he stands among so...

Actress Sylvia Sidney and producer George Jessel attend the horse races at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Ca. on May 24, 1945. (AP Photo)

The commandant of the concentration camp SS Captain Johann Baptist Eichelsdorfer, who was responsible for the murder of hundreds of prisoners, stands...

A U.S. Navy corpsman administers blood plasma to a wounded Marine as he is being carried on a stretcher on Okinawa, Japan, in May 1945 during World Wa...

German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is photograhed in the garden of her home in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in May 1945. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)

Rows of white crosses mark the graves of some of the 4,189 U.S. Marines killed in Iwo Jima, in this April 24, 1945 photo. The Fifth Marine Division c...

American soldiers march inland on Ryukus Island in Okinawa, Japan on April 23, 1945 during World War II. In the background soldiers use trucks to tra...

A twin-engine Japanese plane hit and set afire by anti-aircraft gunners aboard an Essex type carrier plunges into the Pacific on April 22, 1945 during...

..A B-29 Superfortress rests on a dirt mound after it crash landed with two engines working at Iwo Jima, Japan, on April 21, 1945 during World War II....

Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, is shown catching the ball during warm-up in St. Louis, Mo. on April 18, 1945. (AP Photo)

Pete Gray, outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, extends his left arm above his head to catch the ball during warm-up in St. Louis, Mo. on April 18, 19...

Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, throws the ball during pre-game warm-up in St. Louis, Mo. on April 18, 1945. Gray learned t...

Major John R. Scotti, of Brooklyn, N.Y., inspects some of the dead bodies found in a woodshed of the liberated Nazi concentration camp in Ohrdruf, nin...

A two-man Japanese submarine is received by U.S. Coast Guardsmen as it is lowered to the beach by chains on the arms of a giant crane on April 4, 1945...

Commander Jack Dempsey, holding rifle, rides a Coast Guard landing craft to the Okinawa Beach in the Philippines a few hours after the initial attack...

G.I.s of the Seventh Division U.S. Army are shown with a dead German after cutting his body down from a rope strung from the sign above in a side stre...

This documentary film still shows an American G.I. reaching out to outstretched hands of inmates of the liberated Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, W...

Murdered victims, most of them Jewish or political prisoners, are stacked on a cart at the German concentration camp Buchenwald in April 1945 at the e...

Women survivors of a Nazi concentration camp carry bodies of other prisoners to a communal grave after the camp is liberated by British troops, at Ber...

The charred remains of a body exposing whitened ribs are found inside one furnace at the Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany, in April 1945...

A male SS guard hauls a body into a mass grave for slain prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in April 1945. British t...

One of the surviving inmates of the Nazi concentration camp at Ohrdruf looks down at fellow prisoners killed by SS guards shortly before American forc...

A female SS guard hauls a body into position in a mass grave for slain prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in April 19...