AP Historical Hard Drive 2001

American soldiers and equipment are landed on the black volcanic beach at Massacre Bay on Attu Island, Alaska on May 26, 1943 during World War II. Th...

As the deck of the capsized battleship USS Oklahoma breaks water, damage and corrosion to her superstructure are shown on May 24, 1943 at Pearl Harbor...

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, Commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, rides with Gen. Henri Giraud, Commander of French Forces, to the saluting...

U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, and Gen. Henri Giraud, Commander of Fighting French Forces, stand and salu...

This aerial view shows bursts from bombs dropped by U.S. Flying Fortresses onto the harbor and docks at Ferryville, on Lake Bizerte, in Tunisia on May...

Japanese Americans get their hair cut in a crowded barber shop at the internment relocation center for in Tulelake, Ca., in May 1943 during World War...

Aiko Sumoge, an assistant teacher, leads a Kindergarten class to sing an English folk song at the internment relocation center for Japanese Americans...

Two U.S. soldiers Cpl. Rubin Stanphill of Atoka, Okla., and Cpl. Harmon Reyburn of Dothan, Ala., inspect a wrecked German mobile 88 MM, left behind as...

Fred Astaire is reflected in the mirror as he dances atop a bar in a scene from the movie

Actor-dancer Fred Astaire is shown in character in a dance routine atop a bar in the movie

New York City Mayor Fiorella H. La Guardia, standing at podium between two flags, addresses a large crowd at a ceremony in front of City Hall in New Y...

American soldiers carrying fixed bayonets march up Broadway in close formation in a ceremony for the U.S. war loan parade in New York City on April 15...

German prisoners of war captured by the Russians in the defense of Stalingrad march in a long line winding over a hill toward a Communist prison camp...

In pursuit of retreating Axis troops, this long line of tanks with the British Eighth Army rolls along a coastal road in Libya toward Tripoli, North A...

An Australian mortar crew sends out a barrage of mortar fire on Japanese defenders of their stronghold of Buna, New Guinea, during World War II on Feb...

Soviet troops man an anti-aircraft gun in one of the squares of Kharkov, Ukraine steel center, after the Red Army retake the city from the Germans in...

Soldiers of the Australian forces advance through a coconut grove and kunai grass in Japanese occupied New Guinea in Feb. 1943 during World War II....

A contingent of U.S. Marines advances along a Guadalcanal jungle road toward Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands in Feb. 1943 during World War II. (A...

Soviet Red Army soldiers stand on Lenin St. in Belgorod in Feb. 1943 during World War II. Belgorod was recaptured Aug. 5 by the Russians from the Ger...

Two Axis soldiers, with their hands held above their heads, are marched out of a battered building by one of their Russian captors as German soldiers...

Bodies of Japanese soldiers lie near a beached landing barge on the western beach of Buna Mission, New Guinea during the battle against Allied forces...

U.S. Army soldiers give armed protection to native workers who carry water, food and ammunition up and down hills as they advance toward the front on...

A Moroccan wearing a fez peers through an aperture in the hull of the sunken French battleship Jean Bart in Casablanca Harbor, Morocco, in 1943. The...

German soldiers pull a field gun along the harbor front at Marseille, France, in 1943 during World War II. (AP Photo)

Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hall stand on the porch of their new home on the 500 acre dairy farm in 1943. Hall successfully completed the Farm Labor Training P...

Australian soldiers wounded in the bitter battle at Gona, New Guinea, are given treatment as they lay on stretchers at a front line dressing station b...

Dancer, singer and actor Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie, 18, dance together in the musical picture

A burning Japanese transport plunges seaward near Pamela in the Celebes in 1943 during World War II. The plane was en route to Makassar with Japanese...

Kentucky farmers Robert Z. Lee, Jim Bolt, center, and his son, right, are seen in 1943. The Farm Security Administration, FSA, has created a wartime...

A woman steps in front of the marching Soviet Communist Army contingents to present flowers as residents of Orel turn out to greet the soldiers enteri...

Dead Japanese soldiers, pill boxes, army trucks and palm trees spread across the sands after a battle for Tarawa Island in the Gilbert Islands in 1943...

Farm Security Administration County Supervisor Bailey visits Reed Hall on his barren farm in the Hill Section of Gallia County, Ohio, in 1943. Bailey...

Two American soldiers of the 32nd Division cautiously fire into a Japanese dugout before entering it for inspection during a drive on Buna, which resu...

While on a bombing run over Salamau, New Guinea, before its capture by Allied forces, photographer Sgt. John A. Boiteau aboard an army Liberator took...

Soviet Communist Army soldiers stop for a rest at May First Square as they re-enter Orel after it was recaptured Aug. 5 from the Germans in 1943 durin...

U.S. Marine raiders return to base camp after an all-night vigil in foxholes beyond the front lines on Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands in the Sou...

This is a 1943 view of the Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington, Va., located across the Potomac River from...

Major Edward Rector, a native of Marshall, N.C., swings into his P-40 in China in 1943. Rector, a World War II fighter ace and original member of the...

The crew of a U.S. Army Heavy Artillery Regiment fires a 155mm Long Tom somewhere in England during a practice round to register the gun in 1943 durin...

British Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of the Eighth Army, congratulates British and New Zealand armored troops, who with the British Eight...

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, president and general manager of Eastern Airlines, sits at his desk in New York City on Dec. 29, 1942 during World War II....

U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, president and general manager of Eastern Airlines, talk in Washington, D.C. on De...

Soldiers from the German Army are stationed in Stalingrad, Russia on Dec. 12, 1942 during World War II. (AP Photo)

Joseph R.Taylor, president of the Downtown Athletic Club presents Frank Sinkwich, center, star halfback of the University of Georgia, with the John W....

French troops on their way to the fighting lines in Tunisia shake hands with American soldiers at the rail station in Oran, Algeria, North Africa, on...

Heavy allied bombing left only skeletons of buildings as shown in this general view of a street in Tobruk, Libya, on Dec. 2, 1942 during World War II....

Moroccan natives are rounded up by American soldiers after U.S. landing at Fedala, Morocco, North Africa, on Nov. 27, 1942 during World War II. (AP...

U.S. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, center, is helped by Col. Robert L. Griffin, Jr., left, and a crew member of the rescue plane after being flown to a So...

U.S. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker grins after being rescued as he is driven in a jeep by Col. Robert L. Griffin, Jr., of the U.S. Marine Corps, in the Sou...

Dragging his bag across the sands, this American soldier is among the first to arrive on Guadalcanal Island, where the U.S. Marines had formerly maint...