AP Historical Hard Drive 2001

Rescue workers help evacuate the Lunalilo High School in Honolulu after the roof of the main building was hit by a bomb during the Japanese attack at...

Black smoke pours from the U.S. Destroyer USS Shaw after a direct hit by bombs during the surprise aerial attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawa...

Three U.S. battleships are hit from the air during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Japan's bombing of U.S. military bases at Pea...

Smoke clouds the sky over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, as two sailors crouch with rifles on the pier at the submarine base trying to locate...

A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 during World Wa...

Firemen and civilians rush to the scene with fire hoses to save homes and stores in the Japanese and Chinese sections of Honolulu, Hawaii, on Dec. 7,...

The battleship USS California is afire and listing to port in the Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941 during World War II....

Italian merchant marine officers, being held in the Fort Missoula, Mont. detention camp Dec. 6,1941, work with paint, plastic wood, glue, and other ma...

A boy gunner sitting on a Soviet armored car peers from the turret during the occupation of Teheran, Iran on Dec. 5, 1941 during World War II. (AP Ph...

Two British commanders lean out of their tanks to shake hands and wish each other

Passengers are served in the dining car of the streamlined new Empire State Express train for the New York Central Railroad Company in New York City o...

The new Empire State Express train makes its test run through Breakneck Mountain along the Hudson River, N.Y., on Nov. 24, 1941. The New York Central...

Passengers sit in the observation lounge car in the streamlined new Empire State Express train for the New York Central Railroad Company in New York C...

Goalie Frankie Brimsek of the Boston Bruins poses in front of the net in Boston, Ma., on Nov. 11, 1941. (AP Photo)

Workmen rush the construction of The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington, Va., on Nov. 5, 1941. The Washi...

Construction on The Pentagon building continues in Arlington, Va., on Nov. 5, 1941. When completed, the five-sided headquarters building of the Unite...

This general view shows the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Va., on Oct. 22, 1941. The bow of the British aircraft carrier Illustrious, far left, is...

Italian Premier Benito Mussolini, right, and members of his staff review troops of the newly formed Fascist battalions on the outskirts of Rome, Italy...

German Nazi soldiers are shown in Soviet trenches that they stormed and captured from the Communists near Leningrad during World War II. This Oct. 19...

Gen. Hideki Tojo is seen in Tokyo, Japan on Oct. 18, 1941. The former minister of war, who succeeded as Japan's new prime minister on Oct. 16, is req...

Russian soldiers ride upon horsedrawn military wagons, mounted with machinge guns, during a Russo-British military review in Teheran, Iran, on Oct. 17...

Liet. Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan's new prime minister, is shown in Tokyo, Japan on Oct. 17, 1941. (AP Photo)

New York Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio (5) slides home safely in the ninth inning to score his team's fifth and winning run in game 4 of the World S...

This aerial view shows a sold out Yankee Stadium during the World Series opener between Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees in the Bronx, N.Y., on O...

The Brooklyn Dodgers, the National League Champions of 1941, pose at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 27, 1941. Seated from left are, trainer...

Artie Shaw is shown playing the clarinet on Sept. 10, 1941 . (AP Photo)

Lt. Samuel Battle gets a kiss from his four year-old granddaughter, Yvonne, at City Hall in New York City on Sept. 4, 1941. He was sworn in as a memb...

Construction of Tennessee Valley Authority's Cherokee Dam continues as workers install the housing for the first of its turbines thirteen months into...

U.S. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn takes his position in the speaker's chair on the rostrum of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. in...

Bobby Jones digs his way out of a trap on the 15th hole in the afternoon round of the Ryder Cup challenge in Detroit, Mi., Aug. 24, 1941. Captain Jon...

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia poses at his office in New York City on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1941. La Guardia won the Republican primary nomination for a t...

British troops enter the ruins of the old Roman colonnade in Palmyra, Eastern Syria, after capturing the city on Aug. 12, 1941 during World War II. (...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt , seated left, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, right, join in the singing during church services ab...

This aerial view shows U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minsiter Winston Churchill, both seated upper left facing gun, during Di...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill confer on deck aboard the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales dur...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill confer after church services aboard the battleship Prince of Wales...

This general view shows the ruined city of Minsk, U.S.S.R., after Nazis entered the capital city following the retreat of the Russians, who set the ci...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is shown on July 14, 1941 at an unknown location during World War II. (AP Photo)

Actor Gary Cooper poses on July 8, 1941 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of the Ethiopian Army kiss the ground in front of Emperor Haile Selassie during a ceremony at which they swore allegiance to the Emperor in A...

Commander-in-chief of the German Africa Corps. Gen. Erwin Rommel, left, holding binoculars, watches enemy movement from a tank in the foremost lines o...

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, president and general manager of Eastern Airlines, arrives in New York City on June 25, 1941 during World War II. Rickenbac...

German troopers in their field grey uniforms look up at two ancient Greek statues on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece on June 15, 1941 during World War...

Interned Italian seamen amuse themselves June 14,1941 with a game of

Interned Italian seamen who are being held at Fort Missoula, Missoula, Mont. look over a cartload of long brown loaves of bread June 14,1941. Like the...

Naval guns of the British Cruiser Norfolk fire at the German Battleship Bismarck during early stages of the warfare, which ended in the sinking of the...

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace and president of the Indianapolis Speedway, listens to a broadcast of the Memorial Day speedway class...

Sgt. Alvin C. York, a hero soldier in World War I, is the principle speaker at Memorial Day exercises at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.,...

A sell-out crowd of 34,548 attends the Brooklyn Dodgers-New York Giants game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 30, 1941. (AP Photo)

A battery of German anti-aircraft forces stops beneath the Acropolis in Athens, Greece on May 27, 1941 during World War II. The Nazi occupation began...