AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

Associated Press photographer Harry Harris poses with his camera in London, March, 1944. Harris, a celebrated Associated Press photographer who captur...

Soviet Red Army cavalrymen look over an abandoned convoy of vehicles and other war equipment, left behind by fleeing German troops, at Ukrainian villa...

Following in the cover of a tank, American infantrymen secure an area on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, in March 1944, after Japanese forces infiltrat...

Canadian soldiers load donkeys, which usually transport water to the fields, to bring fuel to the front lines, at an unknown location in Italy, in Mar...

Soviet Red Army soldiers are seen as they fire their artillery gun at retreating German forces, in March 1944, during a night attack near Narva, in S...

German soldiers are seen as they dash to an antiaircraft gun mounted on a railroad car, at an unknown location along the Atlantic coast in France, in...

A sharp shooter of the Indian Army, fighting in alliance with the British, poses with his rifle, at an unknown location in Burma, in March 1944, durin...

A German soldier stands guard on an observation tower, in March 1944, at an unknown location along the Atlantik Wall, a fortification complex built by...

U.S. Marines wait for the rest of their unit to get aboard after fighting in the front lines at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, on February 28, 1944. (A...

Singer-actor Frank Sinatra and actress Gloria de Haven are shown at

Captain Carter, upper center with map, briefs his men for amphibious assault operations at Arawe, New Britain, February 23, 1944, aboard a troop trans...

Grimy and weary after two days and nights in the battlefield, 19-year-old Pfc. Faris M.

A woman at the entrance of the Stage Door Canteen shakes hands with Chief Petty Officer James Reeves, who is the 200,000th guest at the United Service...

A powerfull 155 mm large gun, known as

Mrs. Alleta Sullivan, left, mother of the five Sullivan brothers who lost their lives in the sinking of the cruiser USS Juneau, works alongside actres...

Singer Dinah Shore reacts as comedian Bob Hope, right, hands the broken pieces of a plate to U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace as they wash dishes...

Men of the 7th U.S. Army Division use flame throwers to drive out Japanese soldiers from a block house on Kwajalein atoll, during the invasion of the...

A Royal Air Force Baltimore light bomber drops two bombs during an attack on the railway station and junction at the snow-covered town of Sulmona, imp...

British troops are seen during amphibious landing operations at a beachhead near Anzio, south of Rome, as the Allied invasion of Italy gets underway,...

Bombs from a German fighter plane attack Allied war supply ships, off the coast of Anzio beachhead, south of Rome, in June 1944. (AP Photo)

His face begrimed with coral dust, an unidentified U.S. Marine returns to a Coast Guard assault transport after two days and nights in combat, during...

U.S. Marines lie in the sand, attacking the Japanese position across smoking no man's land with rifle fire, while an American fighter plane is sweepin...

A tired member of the famed Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17, known as the

German infantrymen are seen at an unknown battlefield somewhere along the Russian front lines, attacked by heavy shellfire, in February 1944. (AP Phot...

Comedian-actor Zero Mostel acts as chef and tastes soup over a stove in the kitchen at La Martinique Club where he is appearing on stage in New York C...

Comedian Zero Mostel uses scissors to cut spaghetti into smaller pieces at a restaurant in New York City, Jan. 24, 1944. (AP Photo/Charles Kenneth Lu...

U.S. Army Air Force intelligence officer Maj. Robert T. Jones, retired golfing champion Bobby Jones of Atlanta, Ga., is shown in London, England, Jan....

Dancers Pearl Lang, left, Nina Fonaroff, center, and Ether Butler portray in dance movement an excursion into memory in New York City, Jan. 12, 1944....

This aerial view from the top of the Savoy Plaza Hotel at 59th St. and Fifth Ave., shows ice skaters in New York's Central Park, Jan. 9, 1944. (AP Ph...

A drover travels with his covered wagon and his sheep on the Geelong-Baachus Marsh Road in rural Australia, Jan. 8, 1944. The herder is aiding in the...

U.S. Navy planes attack a Japanese airfield on Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands, on January 4, 1944. (AP Photo)

American infantrymen fire from behind hedgerows as they battle the German Army for Normandy in Lessay, France, in 1944 during World War II. The man a...

U.S. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., left, arrives in Normandy, France, to meet with with U.S. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, center, and Britain's Bernard Mont...

The first wave of U.S. Infantrymen leave their higgins boats and race through the surf for the beach during the invasion of Wakde Island, Dutch New Gu...

Soviet Red Army reserve troops are seen as they march through the outskirts of the besieged city of Leningrad, Soviet Union, in January 1944, during W...

A wounded Japanese soldier is seen shortly after he is captured by the Allied forces, in the Sanga river region in former Dutch colony New Guinea, in...

U.S. Marines carry their weapons and ammunition overhead as they wade through a wetland area at Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island, in January 1944....

Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, right, is escorted through a South Sea base by U.S. Marine Major Joe Foss, left, on an inspection tour for an American p...

An U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder medium bomber releases four 1000 pound bombs on targets in German-occupied territory, just inside the coastline...

Canadian infantrymen supported by tanks advance through a street littered with debris, at the war-torn Italian city of Ortona, in the early days of Ja...

Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, new commander of the 101st Airborne division, salutes prior to taking off from English Airfield during Allied invasion of Nazi...

A Navy medical corpsman bandages a head wound for a fellow U.S. Marine while both are under fire, during the battle for the strategic Japanese airfiel...

U.S. Coast Guard coxswains await orders to pick up troops and equipment to be ferried ashore during maneuvers just after dawn, in the Pacific Sea in 1...

Under way in the South Pacific in 1944, the 16-inch guns of the USS Iowa fire during a battle drill. (AP Photo)

With officers and seamen of the USS New Jersey looking on, this Japanese captive goes through the procedure of being bathed, clipped, deloused and iss...

U.S.Marine machine gunners push back a counterattack from Japanese forces at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, in January 1944. (AP Phot...

Medics are seen as they help an wounded soldier at an unknown battlefield in France, in 1944. (AP Photo)

One of the dreadful V-1 flying bombs, launched against London from the coast of German-occupied territories in Western Europe, is seen in flight over...

Down the ramps, through the surf and up the beach dash Royal British Marines from a U.S. Coast Guard-manned landing craft during final amphibious assa...

Columns of troop-packed LCIs trail in the wake of a Coast Guard-manned transport ship en route for the invasion of Cap Sansapor, New Guinea, in 1943....