AP Historical Hard Drive 2001

U.S. Gen. John J. Pershing appears in uniform at Armistice Day ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Nov. 11, 1942. Pershing, nickna...

U.S. Gen. John J. Pershing attends Armistice Day ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Nov. 11, 1942. Pershing was born in Linn Coun...

Retired race car driver Barney Oldfield is shown in Los Angeles, Ca., on Nov. 6, 1942. The American auto racing pioneer was born Berna Eli Oldfield in...

Two U.S. Marines occupying foxholes on embattled Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on Nov. 5, 1942. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps Newsreel)

Two alert U.S. Marines stand beside their small tank on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on Nov. 4, 1942 during World War II. The military tank was...

German infantrymen rest in front of their shelter in Stalingrad, Russia, on Oct. 30, 1942 during World War II. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines man a .75 MM gun on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands on Oct. 29, 1942 during World War II. (AP Photo)

Australian soldiers and locals gather in a New Guinea village shortly before the Australians launched an attack against the Japanese in the area on Oc...

The stricken aircraft carrier USS Hornet lies dead in the waters after a morning attack by Japanese warplanes during the Battle of Santa Cruz in the S...

Two Japanese bomber planes plunge to their deaths in veiw of the U.S. cruiser, in background, in the Naval battle off Santa Cruz Islands on Oct 26, 19...

Japanese dive bombers and a torpedo plane swarm over the carrier USS Hornet in the U.S.-Japanese sea battle near the Santa Cruz Islands in the Solomon...

Lt. James L. Munson administers the oath to five black American women who are sworn in as members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, WAAC, at Grand...

U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, center, walks with officers of an American Army Division during an inspection trip in Australia during World War II on Oc...

St. Louis Cardinals players, from left, George

George

Pitchers Ernie White, St. Louis Cardinals, and Spurgeon

The largest World Series crowd on record, 69,123, is in attendance to watch the New York Yankees play the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game at Yan...

A U.S. Marine Corps gunner stands in an anti-aircraft post behind his .50 caliber weapon ready to attack Japanese planes on Guadalcanal Island in the...

U.S. Marines salute as they raise the American flag after landing on Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific Solomon Islands in Oct. 1942 during World War I...

A 10-year-old biplane with a 1918 motor is placed on a scrap metal pile for the war effort in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 29, 1942. The owner of the pla...

Japanese bombers sweep in for a low level attack on U.S. warships and transports at Quadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on Sept. 26, 1942 during World War I...

Four Japanese bombers sweep in for a low level attack on U.S. warships and transports, some of which may be seen at left in the distance, at Quadalcan...

The entrance of the Stork Club at 3 E. 53rd St. in New York City is shown on Sept. 23, 1942. (AP Photo)

Gerard Murphy, left, and Margaret Fitzgerald, crowned King and Queen of Scrapland, act out a play with others using materials from the scrap metal dri...

Merry Leone and Robert Patterson, Jr., wearing his work overalls, show the steps to the new dance

Second Lt. Gabe C. Hawkins, second from right, an Army instruction teacher, looks over a map before taking his students on a cross-country trip at Tus...

Black farmworkers from Danville, Va., arrive at a Farm Security Administration Camp near Brant, N.Y. on Sept. 5, 1942. They will help harvest the veg...

Richard Wiessenberger spreads his hands around the neck of a Japanese soldier depicted in a cardboard cut-out that is part of a display to encourage d...

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, right, Commander of the German Afrika Korps, is shown with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, German air commander, in the w...

A RAAF disposal crew winds a Japanese bomb on top of a winch to diffuse it and haul it away in a waiting truck after it struck an airfield at this New...

After landing in force, U.S. Marines pause on the beach of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands before advancing inland against the Japanese on Aug. 29,...

Women and men employed at the Pullman-Standard Co. plant during World War II give the

A group of Soviet Communist soldiers aim their rifles skyward at German planes as they lay on their backs in the Kharkov sector on Aug. 18, 1942 durin...

Mahatma Gandhi is surrounded by his followers at the All-India Congress at Bombay, India, shortly before his arrest on Aug. 8, 1942. Gandhi is signing...

Jawaharlal Nehru, left, and Mahatma Gandhi converse at a session of the Indian National Congress in Bombay, India, a few hours before their arrest on...

German Field Marshall Gen. Erwin Rommel, center, chats with Italian officers after the fall of Tobruk in Portugal on Aug. 2, 1942 during World War II....

German Field Marshall Gen. Erwin Rommel is shown at Tobruk, Libya, on Aug. 2, 1942 during World War II. (AP Photo)

This is an August 1942 photo of New York Yankees pitcher Charles

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pokes a piece of meat in to the cage for Rota the lion, a gift to him now housed in the Zoological Gardens in...

American composer Irving Berlin poses in a World War I U.S. Army uniform on July 19, 1942 at an unknown location. He will wear this uniform for his p...

Members of the Chick-A-Dee Japanese American women's softball team, relocated from Los Angeles, practice at the internment center in Mandazar, Ca., on...

Esther Forbes, author of

Internees prepare lunch meals for Japanese Americans held at the at the internment center at the Santa Anita Park race track in Ca., on July 2, 1942...

Fred Astaire performs his firecracker dance number from the musical movie

Fred Astaire performs his firecracker dance number from the 1942 musical movie

Mahatma Gandhi, wearing his dhoti and sandals with a wet towel over his head, leaves a conference at Wardha, India, on June 24, 1942. At the conferen...

Hotel employees Andrew Matzen, left, and Freda Hubner weigh a seven-year collection of cast-off razor blades at the Hotel Lexington in New York City o...

Prominent boxing personalities pose during an all-sports carnival to benefit the Army Relief Fund and the Navy Relief Society at New York's Polo Groun...

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The USS Yorktown lists heavily to port after being struck by Japanese bombers and torpedo planes in the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942 during World...