AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

Sen. Hattie Caraway, D-Ark., first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, signs legislation in the Senate in Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 1943. It is the f...

Mitchell bombers of the U.S. Army 14th Air Force set fires to oil storage dumps on the Japanese-occupied Chinese mainland, on October 19, 1944. (AP Ph...

Red Army Captain Gadabadze and his men are seen as they advance against German positions, near the Dnieper river front, on October 15, 1943. (AP Pho...

An Italian woman kisses the hand of a soldier of the U.S. Fifth Army after troops move into Naples in their invasion and advance northward in Italy, O...

The first big raid by the U.S. Army 8th Air Force strikes the Focke-Wulff assembly plant for German aircraft production at Marienburg, in East Prussia...

U.S.soldiers are seen as they move through the streets of southern Italian town Acerno, on October 2, 1943, during the U.S. invasion of Italy. (AP Pho...

A U.S. Flying Fortress is seen shortly after raiding a vital ball-bearing manufacturing center in Schweinfurt, Germany, in October 1943, during World...

Barrage balloons hover above landing ship tanks (LST) for protection from Nazi air attack as a U.S. Army infantry division boards the ships at Palermo...

A German soldier is seen in full gear at an unknown location on the German-Russian front, in October 1943. (AP Photo)

America's three top Navy commanders, from left, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Adm. Ernest J. King and Adm. W.F. Halsey, Jr., hold a strategy conference at P...

Canadian medics rush to remove a wounded comrade from the battlefield, in October 1943, during Allied operations in Italy. (AP Photo)

A Naval Air Transport Service plane is seen en route to the Aleutian front, over Alaska, in October 1943 during World War II. (AP Photo)

Canadian soldiers are seen as they walk through the entranceway to a Fascist youth camp and school, September 29, 1943, at an unknown location in Ital...

U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, left, wearing hat, talks to patients at a field hospital in Guadalcanal on Sept. 25, 1943, during her extensive tou...

U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt shakes hands with Pfc. Theodore E. Truesdell of Cincinnati, Ohio, in a naval hospital on Sept. 23, 1943, during her...

Pfc. Paul Oglesby from the 30th Infantry Regiment stands in reverence before the altar of a damaged catholic church in Acerno, Italy, on September 23,...

Bing Crosby, left, and Frank Sinatra break out in song in Bing's dressing room between radio programs in Hollywood, Ca., Sept. 12, 1943. (AP Photo)

U.S. Gen Douglas MacArthur observes a military operation from a B-17 Flying Fortress gun port on Sept. 5, 1943 during World War II. In the exercise,...

A U.S. soldier demonstrates the proper way to hold a bazooka, a launching tube used for antitank warfare, in Sept. 1943 at an unknown location. The w...

A fallen Italian soldier lies at roadside, while U.S. medical corpsman on the road ahead aid a wounded American lieutenant, during the invasion of Sic...

Elmer Davis, director of the U.S. Office of War Information, poses after leaving the White House where he conferred with the president in Washington,...

A U.S. heavy artillery unit moves up a mountain with a large 155mm gun in tow, on August 18, 1943, during the invasion of Sicily. (AP Photo)

The American flags atop Yankee Stadium, nicknamed

A survivor of the USS Helena is transferred on a gangplank from the rescuing destroyer, possibly USS Nicholas, left, to a big U.S. battleship, on Augu...

A soldier of a German antitank crew is seen as he throws a hand grenade, at an unknown battlefield along the German-Russian front lines, on August 13,...

Pfc. Harvey White, of Minneapolis, Minn., gives blood plasma to Pvt. Roy Humphrey, of Toledo, Ohio, wounded by shrapnel at an unknown location in Sici...

German artillerymen wave a Swastika flag to alert the Stuka bomber pilots above them of their position at the German-Russian front line between Belgor...

New York City police officers wear steel helmets and carry nightsticks as they patrol a street in Harlem in New York City to prevent further rioting,...

Mannequins and broken glass litter the sidewalk as a woman and two men in Army uniforms walk on 125th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in t...

Two black Army soldiers assist a white man who was involved in a scuffle that occured during the outbreak of a race riot in the Harlem area of New Yor...

A police officer inspects a rack of lamb among the looted items which police seized from participants in the Harlem riots at the 123rd Street police p...

White police officers lead an unidentified black man, with chain handcuff on wrist, from the scene of the Harlem riot in New York City, Aug. 2, 1943....

A bugler sounds taps during a memorial service while a group of G.I.s visits the graves for comrades who fell in the reconquest of Attu Island, in Aug...

A member of an American reconnaissance patrol moves forward in Sicily, in August 1943. (AP Photo)

Two women are seen working through the bombardier's hatch on a fighter plane, at the Vega aircraft plant in Burbank, Calif., in August 1943. (AP Pho...

A worker at Electric Boat Co. in Groton, Conn., is seen working on the hull of an U.S. Navy submarine in August 1943. (AP Photo/Lt.Comdr. Charles Fenn...

Guarded by Allied soldiers, German prisoners of war are marched into captivity, at Pichon, Tunisia, in August 1943. (AP Photo)

This aerial view, screened by smoke from a previous attack, shows the bomb bursts from an attack by U.S. Flying Fortresses, 8th Air Force, on the Howa...

Wounded American soldiers are seen as they lie aboard a lighter onshore at Munda Point, New Georgia island, in August 1943. (AP Photo)

During the invasion of Sicily through Allied forces, an American cargo ship, loaded with ammunition, explodes after being hit by a bomb from a German...

Allied soldiers are seen pushing a jeep, while others unload military equipment and vehicles from nearby transport ships, at a beachhead on Sicily, It...

German paratroopers are seen as they dig trenches at an unknown location along the German-Russian front, on July 26, 1943. (AP Photo)

Vice President Henry A. Wallace is speaking on the subject of

U.S. Army motorized units, loaded down with military equipment, are seen at an unknown location in North Africa, on July 19, 1943. (AP Photo)

Actress Bette Davis presents a birthday cake to servicemen celebrating birthdays at the United Service Organizations (USO) Stage Door Canteen in New Y...

Welcomed by local inhabitants, Soviet Red Army soldiers march through a village near Krymskaya, on July 7, 1943, during their offensive to drive out t...

A trainer and loader aboard an American cruiser are shown during the bombardment accompanying the U.S. invasion of Sicily, Italy, in July 1943 during...

Attacking at the break of day in a heavy rainstorm, the first American soldiers to hit the beach at Rendova, Solomon Islands, seek cover behind tree t...

Bombs are being dropped from a Flying Fortress, on June 30, 1943, during a U.S. bomb raid on synthetic rubber factories of the Huels GMBH, in Germany...

A Chinese signalman, standing atop a lookout with two other camouflaged Communist army men, relays a message to comrades below on the central Salween...