AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

Japanese battlecruiser Ashigara is underway for the South China Sea, on March 15, 1941. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of the German Africa Corps line up with their tin dish ready, as food gets served at an unknown location in the North African desert, in Marc...

A German antiaircraft crew brings their light gun in position, at an unknown oilfield in Romania, in March 1941. (AP Photo)

Exiled Emperor Haile Selassie I, right, with an interpreter at his side, is seen at an unknown location, on February 19, 1941. After being forced to f...

Standing among other residents of Marseille, a Frenchman weeps as he watches the flags of France's historic regiments depart into exile in Algeria, on...

Australian and Ethiopian soldiers, fighting in alliance with the British Empire, are seen during a rest in a dry river bed, on February 18, 1941, at a...

A long range gun, located along the English Channel at Boulogne-sur-mer, is being fired by German artillery against targets on the southeastern shores...

A German Messerschmitt Me 110 is seen flying along the English Channel coastline, on February 6, 1941, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, left, whispers advice to six-year-old Andy Davidson while entertainer Bill Robinson, Bojangles, whispers to Esh...

A group of New Zealand infantrymen, in position with bayonets fixed to their rifles, await for the order to advance, during maneuvers on February 2, 1...

Helen Keller walks on the grounds of her home in Westport, Conn., in Feb. 1941. (AP Photo)

With a bomber flying overhead, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands silhouetted at an undisclosed location, on January 16, 1941. (AP Photo...

Lilly Dache, hat designer, is surrounded by hats at a fashion show on Jan. 9, 1941 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

London firefighters and rescue workers are searching for survivors in the rubble of destroyed buildings, on January 6, 1941, after an air raid of Germ...

Following another night of German firebombings, a team of rescue workers is searching for survivors trapped under the wreckage of a building, January...

British troops march away from a warship after their arrival at Crete, a strategic Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, Jan. 2, 1941 during World Wa...

A German lookout post in winter gear is seen guarding the shore along the English Channel, at Hardelot, near Calais, on January 2, 1941. (AP Photo)

This is a general view of the unused elevated railway structure along the waterfront and snow-covered rooftops in Boston, Mass., in 1941. (AP Photo)

Francis B. Sayre, United States High Commissioner for the Philippine Islands, left, visits with Lieut.-Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1941 after McArthur's...

Actress Hattie McDaniel is shown in 1941 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Singer Lena Horne, from Brooklyn, N.Y., is shown in her dressing room in 1941. (AP Photo)

Two American officers demonstrate a method applied to them as prisoners of war by the Japanese to make them confess any

Two German soldiers are seen in the early days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in 1941, at an unknown location along the frontlines. (AP P...

London firefighters are seen in a bomb-damaged street as they direct a fire hose on to the flames, after a night of German firebombings in 1941. (AP P...

British soldiers dash past shelled buildings and debris in a street at Bardia, Libya, as they capture the Italian Army's garrison and stronghold, in t...

Wounded Italian prisoners of war are seen at a military hospital in Salonica, in northeastern Greece, on December 31, 1945, during the unsuccessful It...

The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is standing out of the flames and smoke of surrounding buildings during heavy attacks of the German Luftwaffe, on Dec...

Authors Ernest Hemingway, left, and Sinclair Lewis shake hands before sailing aboard the steamship Cuba for Havana from Key West, Fla., Dec. 23, 1940....

A British RAF fighter is seen crashing down after being hit in an air battle, on December 18, 1940, over an unknown location, during World War II. (AP...

Tommy Harmon, center, Michigan University's All-American back, accepts the Heisman Memorial Trophy from Walter P. Holcombe, left, president of the Dow...

The scoreboard above the crowd in the stands shows the Chicago Bears leading 60-0 against the Washington Redskins early in the fourth quarter in the N...

George Halas, left, owner and coach of the Chicago Bears, shakes hands with Ray Flaherty, Washington Redskins coach, after the Bears beat the Redskins...

London firefighters are searching for survivors in the rubble of a destroyed printing works, on December 3, 1940, after a night of German firebombings...

A Wehrmacht soldier of the German occupation forces and a French gendarme are seen regulating traffic in Paris, France, on November 9, 1940. (AP Photo...

The burned-out wrecks of London taxicabs in Leicester Square reflect the damage done by the German firebombing night raids on Britain's capital, Novem...

Men of a German artillery unit cover their ears as bombs whistle away, on November 3, 1940, somewhere along the front lines on the French coast. (AP P...

Members of a German artillery crew, in position somewhere on the French coast along the English Channnel, are seen loading a shell into a large gun, o...

A German dive bomber Ju 87 Stuka is seen in flight over an unknown location, on November 1, 1940, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, left, listens to Fiorello H. La Guardia, director general, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, at t...

This aerial view shows Japan's home fleet, arrayed in battle line, on October 29, 1940, off the coast of Yokohama, Japan. (AP Photo)

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt is shown during his campaign address at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Oct. 28, 1940. Standing beside the...

Tom Harmon, University of Michigan back, is shown in action against Pennsylvania on Oct. 26, 1940. (AP Photo)

Paul Pierlot, left, Belgian Prime Minister, and Paul Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister, are shown after their arrival in London, England,...

Dictator-Premier of Italy Benito Mussolini, foreground, stands on a platform and acknowledges the salute given by massed infantry and artillery units...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first purchaser of the New Defense series of postage stamps from postmaster general Frank Walker in the Wh...

British soldiers march along a pontoon as they disembark a transport ship upon their arrival at an unknown port in Egypt, on October 7, 1940. (AP Phot...

A column of Italian cavalry is seen crossing the Albanian border as Mussolini's invasion of Greece gets underway, in the last days of October 1940. (A...

A German soldier is assigned of keeping guard along the coastline at Boulogne-sur-mer, near Calais, on September 21, 1940, during World War II. (AP Ph...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, center, looks at her husband, King George VI, as he greets rescue workers during a visit to a bombed area of south-west Lon...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs America's first peacetime draft law in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 16, 1...