AP Historical Hard Drive 2001

This general view shows Chinese peasant workers using hand methods to lay the foundation of a river-bed of stones in the construction of an American 2...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands to receive an ovation from British Eighth Army troops whom he visited in Tripoli, Libya, during Allied...

Wounded U.S. marines are loaded in the back of a jeep as it spins through the mud inland from the beach on Bougainville Island in the southwest Pacifi...

A soldier runs past a burning German half-track in the recaptured town of La Glieze, Belgium, in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II....

A long line of German prisoners of war march on a field on their way to a POW camp in the Falaise pocket of Northern France in 1944 during World War I...

Two intelligence analysts work at two Purple code machine analogues at the headquarters of the U.S. Army cryptanalysis service in Arlington, Va. in 19...

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay poses in uniform in 1944 during World War II at an unknown location. LeMay developed several strategic bombar...

The stricken USS Oklahoma battleship lies half-righted as cables stretched over wooden A-frames to Ford Island at Pearl Harbor are used to right the s...

Soldiers of the Americal Division, armed with two flame throwers, a bazooka, rifles and hand grenades, advance on the Japanese on hill 260 on Bougainv...

A wounded marine receives treatment from a Navy medical corpsman at a jungle first aid station behind the lines on New Britain Island, New Guinea, in...

Part of the landing strip at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands is shown in the summer of 1944 during World War II. Seabees constructed a base with quo...

A hand grenade thrown by the U.S. Marine at left flies through the air, upper center, toward a Japanese position in Saipan Island in the Mariana Islan...

U.S. Marines march ashore as they arrive in six landing crafts at Cape Gloucester on the northwestern coast of New Britain Island, New Guinea, on Dec....

U.S. forces leave their landing barge and march ashore at Arawe on the southwestern coast of New Britain Island, New Guinea, on Dec. 15, 1943 during W...

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, left, head of the Nationalist Republic of China, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, center, and British Prime Minister Win...

Nazi civilians pick their way through debris and destruction in the streets of Hamburg, Germany, on December 2, 1943 during World War II. Air raids f...

American Navajo Indians from Southwest United States, members of the 158th U.S. Infantry, are seen on a beach in the Solomon Islands in Dec. 1943. Th...

American soldiers of the 37th Division scan the skies from their positions on a 20 MM anti aircraft gun on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands,...

This view shows a street between Broadway and Eighth Ave. in the Garment District in Manhattan on Nov. 29, 1943. (AP Photo)

Workers unload garments from hand trucks parked along a street between Broadway and Eighth Ave., in the Garment District in Manhattan on Nov. 29, 1943...

Soviet Union Premier Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, center, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sit at the Teheran Confe...

Dead Japanese soldiers lay scattered around a blasted Japanese pillbox at Tarawa Island in the South Pacific on Nov. 11, 1943 during World War II. A...

U.S. Marines set up camp at the beach at Tarawa Island in the South Pacific in Nov. 1943 during World War II. The Allied forces invaded the Japanese...

U.S. forces unload supplies from landing barges on Bougainville Island, a Japanese stronghold in the Solomon Islands, on Nov. 1, 1943 during World War...

U.S. Marines begin their advance inland on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands after landing on Torokina Beach on Nov. 1, 1943 during World Wa...

U.S. troops arrive in a landing craft in the harbor of Naples, Italy, on Oct. 26, 1943 during the Allied invasion in World War II. (AP Photo/British...

Residents of Naples, Italy, cheer from the bay harbor wall as American troops approach in a landing craft on Oct. 26, 1943 during Nazi occupation in W...

German motorized units pass along a coastal road at Nice, South of France, during their occupation in World War II, Oct. 23, 1943 . (AP Photo)

Gen. Omar Bradley answers a question before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19, 1949. (AP Photo)

Men, women and children of Salerno wade in the water to get a closer look at an Allied landing craft infantry (LCI) in Italy, on Oct. 9, 1943 during W...

The wives of New York Yankees players Spurgeon Chandler, Marius Russo and Joe Gordon, respectively, smile in the stands during the World Series at Yan...

Charlie Keller, left, New York Yankees left fielder, and Stan Musial, St Louis Cardinals right fielder, exchange congratulations before the first game...

Starting pitchers Spurgeon

American infantrymen advance on a German observation post within sight of Mount Vesuvius, Italian volcano in background, during World War II in Oct. 1...

Jose Iturbi, playing the piano, Lucille Ball, Harpo Marx, on piano, and Fred Astaire, dancing on piano, rehearse backstage at the Madison Square Garde...

Jean Bartel, Miss California, of Los Angeles, wears her crown and cape after becoming Miss America 1944 at the annual Miss America Pageant in Atlantic...

U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur speaks to a group of officers at a South Pacific base on Sept. 8, 1943 during World War II. (AP Photo)

The New York Giants play the Philadelphia Phillies in a double header at the Polo Grounds in New York City on Sept. 6, 1943. The Labor Day weekend at...

Italian soldiers garrisoning the island of Ustica, off Sicily, toss the bolts of their rifles on a landing, rendering them useless, after the fall of...

Sinclair Lewis, author, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner, is shown at his typewriter working on his first movie script in Hollywood, Ca., Sept. 3, 1943...

Benito Mussolini is shown in front of a hotel in Gran Sasso Mountain area of Italy in Sept. 1943 during World War II. Gathered around the overthrown...

Frank Crosetti, shortstop for the New York Yankees, poses in front of the dug out at Yankee Stadium in New York City on Aug. 30, 1943. (AP Photo)

A landing craft carrying American forces, trucks and supplies approaches the shoreline at Sicily, Italy, in the opening phases of the Allied invasion...

Maj. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr., right, commander of the Third U.S. Division, studies a map with Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley at the Northern Sicily fron...

American air-borne troops use horse and carriage to transport themselves in pursuit of Axis Forces in Sicily, Italy, on July 29, 1943 during World War...

Newlyweds Betty Grable and Harry James embrace and kiss after they are married at dawn in Las Vegas, Nev., on July 5, 1943. (AP Photo)

U.S. Army reinforcements land on a beach in Attu, Alaska on June 23, 1943 during World War II. U.S. troops invaded Attu on May 11 to expel the Japane...

Sam Mitchell, a 46-year-old black janitor, is assaulted by George Miller as police escort Mitchell after he was shot in the stomach during rioting in...

The housing barracks, built by the U.S. Army engineer corps, at the internment center where Japanese Americans are relocated in Amache, Colo., are sho...

A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades close in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts on Attu Island in Alaska in June, 1943 during World...