AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

A German antitank crew is seen as they move their artillery gun in position to safeguard the German troops crossing a river, at an unknown location so...

German infantrymen, heavily armed with rifles and a bazooka, move through brush and forest on their advance toward Leningrad, in September 1941, durin...

Soviet Red Army soldiers hold their rifles overhead as they wade through a wetland area, at an unknown location somewhere along the German-Russian war...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks on the deck of H.M.S. Prince of Wales as the British battleship makes her way across the Atlantic to Ar...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill share a laugh aboard the H.M.S. Prince of Wales, on August 14, 1941, at Argentia Bay, off the coast of...

German soldiers operate a mobile machine gun as they advance through the streets of Ukrainian city and port Nikolaev, in August 1941, during the Germa...

German soldiers are seen as they cross the Don river in a stormboat, in August 1941, during the German invasion of the Caucasus region in the Soviet U...

With the 15th-century fortress-palace of Ivangorod in the background, German troops are seen crossing the Narova river at Narva, in Soviet-occupied Es...

These prehistoric paintings in a cavern near Montignac, France, are seen in this July 28, 1941 photo. To see some of the best examples of this mysteri...

These prehistoric paintings are seen in a cavern near Montignac, France, in this July 28, 1941 photo. To see some of the best examples of this mysteri...

Lithuanian Jews are seen from behind as they display their compulsory

Japanese infantrymen dash through a smoke-filled street of Yichang, in eastern China, July 22, 1941, during the Japanese occupation of the Chinese cit...

German tank units prepare for an attack, on July 21, 1941, somewhere along the Russian warfron, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. (AP Ph...

Byron Nelson follows his tee shot on short eighth hole during semifinal round of PGA Championship at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver Colo., July 1...

The Hell Gate suspension span of the Triborough Bridge between Astoria, Queens and Ward's Island, Manhattan, is shown on July 11, 1941. The bridge op...

New York Yankees catcher Bill Dickey, left, and manager Joe McCarthy, right, unveil the granite memorial to Lou Gehrig in center field of Yankee Stadi...

A German officer is seen passing antitank grenades to his men during rapid shooting, somewhere along the German-Russian front, on July 4, 1941, during...

A German Messerschmitt Destroyer plane of the ME-110 type, flies over the English Channel, England, on June 30, 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo)

German infantrymen, supported by tank units, are seen as they move into a burning Russian village, somewhere along the German-Russian front, on June 2...

A Croatian Jew, left, wears the symbol that all Jews in the newly-created Croatian state must display at all times, both on chest and on their back, i...

Lou Gehrig lies in state as George Ruppert, vice president of the New York Yankees, and a group of youngsters pause at the bier in a New York chapel,...

Carson McCullers, author of

Civilian casualties of a mass panic, among them many children, are piled on a flight of stairs in Chongqing, China, on June 5, 1941. During a Japanese...

German anti-aircraft guns are posted on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, June 4, 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo)

This is a general view of Lexington Ave., with the Chrysler Building in background in New York City, June 3, 1941. Also in view are The Lexington Hot...

Actresses Mary Pickford, left, Norma Shearer, center, and Lady Sylvia Ashley arrive in New York City from Los Angeles, June 2, 1941. Shearer is en ro...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aims an automatic gun during a visit to an arms factory somewhere in England in June 1941 during World War II...

Men of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment, a South African volunteer unit fighting in alliance with the British for the liberation of Ethiopia, are seen...

The entries in the Indianapolis 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track pass the Chrysler-Newport, Phaeton, pace car and driver A.B. Co...

Co-winners Mauri Rose, left, and Floyd Davis pose with the Borg-Warner victory trophy after winning the Indianapolis 500 speedway race track at Indian...

The German warship Bismarck is shown on May 26, 1941. (AP Photo)

Moments after having destroyed the British Royal Navy vessel HMS Hood, the German battleship DKM Bismarck takes a direct hit amidships as it exchanges...

British battlecruiser HMS Norfolk exchanges artillery fire with German large warship DKM Bismarck, during the Battle of the Denmark Strait, on May 23,...

German parachute troops descend on Heraklion Airfield in Candia, on May 20, 1941, during the initial German invasion of Crete. One of the Ju 52 transp...

Following a German air raid on the British capital , the King and the Queen of England inspect the bomb damage at Londons Westminster Abbey, on May 19...

Mauri Rose, an airplane engine plant employee, pretends to kiss his team manager, Lou Moore, who owns the Elgin racing car, after Rose won the pole po...

Local citizens line the street as they watch the invading German troops move through, at an unknown Greek town, on May 16, 1941, during the German inv...

Japanese soldiers, their rifles shouldered, are seen as they march into the city and port of Ningbo, in southeastern China, on May 14, 1941, during th...

Silhouetted against the twilight, invading Japanese soldiers are seen as they wade ashore south of Shanghai, on May 13, 1941. (AP Photo)

Smoke and flames from neighboring buildings surround St. Paul's Cathedral in the aftermath of another blitz over London, England, May 11, 1941 during...

After Greece surrendered to the invading Nazi troops, armored military vehicles of the victorious German army parade past Fieldmarshal General Wilhelm...

This is a general view of Avenue King Feisal 1st in Baghdad, Iraq, May 1941. (AP Photo)

A British gun crew brings their antiaircraft artillery into action against an enemy Axis bomber, May 1941, at Tobruk, Libya. (AP Photo)

Two London firefighters stand silhouetted in front of a bombed building as a wall section collapses in the blazing fire, in May 1941, after a night ra...

A Swastika flag flies over the doorway of a power plant in Ningbo, a coastal city in eastern China, as the German manager meets soldiers of Axis power...

Upon capturing the city, German occupation forces hoist the Swastika flag at City Hall in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Kingdom...

Japanese troops, carrying bayonets, occupy the Chinese port city of Ningpo, 100 miles south of Shanghai, in April, 1941 during the Second Sino-Japanes...

Two men of the German Africa Corps are seen sitting next to their light antiaircraft gun, in April 1941, in the harbor of Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo)

Xavier Cugat, Latin musician known as Cugi, is shown in April 1941 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Postal employees feed 17 tons of reading matter labeled by postal authorities as propaganda into the furnace in San Francisco, Ca., March 19, 1941. T...