AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

A field officer, right, shows King Farouk the map of a sector of the Egyptian Front in Palestine during the monarch's visit to the positions of the Eg...

Members of the women's division line up to sign in as the Stern Gang, a radical Jewish group, is inducted into the Jewish Army of Israel on June 29, 1...

British actor Michael Wilding, left, is shown with Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, right, and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock at the London headquarters of...

Earl and Countess Mountbatten, behind naval and military members of the governor-general's staff, walk down the carpeted steps of Government House in...

Earl Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten wave farewell before boarding their plane at New Delhi airport, India, June 21, 1948. The first governor-genera...

A Red Cross nurse holds a young baby being repatriated from the Haganah-held sector of Jerusalem to the Arab section on June 18, 1948 during the Arab-...

A female officer in charge of the range at the Hen women's corps camp near Tel Aviv, Palestine, gives a demonstration in the handling of a Sten gun on...

Babe Ruth, wearing his No. 3 uniform, receives a standing ovation as he comes out of the Cleveland Indians' dugout to take a bow at Yankee Stadium in...

Ben Hogan blasts out of Riviera Country Club's

Ben Hogan thrills the gallery with a 30-foot putt in the National Open Golf tournament at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, Ca., June 11, 1948....

Edvard Benes, the second president of Czechoslovakia, stands on the terrace of his country home at Sezimovo Usti on June 8, 1948. Benes was notified...

Sonja Henie is seen at her home in California modeling a summer outfit, June 1948. (AP Photo)

Sonja Henie is seen at her home in California modeling a summer outfit, June 1948. (AP Photo)

Sonja Henie is seen at her home in California modeling a summer outfit, June 1948. (AP Photo)

The starter waves the green flag as three drivers cross the starting line at the 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Track in Indianapoli...

Mauri Rose of South Bend, Ind., waves from his Blue Crown Spark Plug Special as he crosses the finish line at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to win t...

A 100-ton Flying Wing B-35 bomber plane flies above the B-17 Flying Fortress across Southern California desert country on May 29, 1948. Giant bomb ca...

Pope Pius XII blesses the nuns and students of the Institute Mother Frances Cabrini, of Rome, in Vatican City, Vatican, May 28, 1948. (AP Photo)

Arab prisoners of war are escorted into the prison at Acre in Northern Palestine, May 27, 1948. The civilian prisoners will clean up road blocks and...

This is a nighttime view of New York's Times Square from 44th St., at Broadway looking north on May 27, 1948. (AP Photo)

Arab soldiers approach a huge breach in the walls of Tiferet Synagogue, a stronghold of the Haganah in the Old City of Jerusalem, on May 21, 1948 duri...

Arab fighters pick their way through rubble of the Tiferet Synagogue, what was the tallest Jewish quarter buiding of Old City of Jerusalem, on May 21,...

Jews pause along King George Ave., to watch fighting through slits in a protective wall in Jerusalem, Israel, May 17, 1948. The wall was erected duri...

Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, left center on speaker's platform, addresses an estimated crowd of 19,000 persons in Madison Square Garden in New York City, M...

Unable to gain admission into the packed Madison Square Garden, this overflow crowd stands under umbrellas on 49th St. in New York City, May 16, 1948....

Children crowd a street vendor in Tel Aviv to purchase the new flag of Israel following proclamation of the Jewish zone of Palestine as a new state of...

An official shows the signed document which proclaims the establishment of the new Jewish state of Israel declared by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,...

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, left, signs a document in Tel Aviv, Palestine, proclaiming the new Jewish State of Israel in Tel Aviv at midn...

George Venable Allen, assistant Secretary of State, addresses the first regional session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Or...

A young boy makes a chalk drawing on the sidewalk in front of a tenement house on West. 36th Street, around the corner from the newly opened Hell's Ki...

Mauri Rose, South Bend., Ind., is shown on the Brickyard in his Blue Crown Spark Plug Special with which he won the 1947 500-mile motor speedway class...

Egyptian volunteer soldiers, who entered southern Palestine in early May to join forces fighting against the Jews, are shown with guns during training...

This is a general view of Grand Street and the Bowery in New York City on April 29, 1948. In the foreground, right, is The Bowery Savings Bank. (AP...

Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi, at microphone, addresses a huge crowd from the balcony of the Christian Democrat Party Headquarters in Rome, Italy,...

Mary Pickford Fairbanks, named executor of her mother's estate, appears in a Los Angeles court to sign necessary documents following her mother's deat...

Orson Welles examines a strip of film to determine the lighting in a scene from Shakespeare's

This is an aerial view of the Olympic drive-in movie theater in Los Angeles, Ca., April 8, 1948. (AP Photo)

Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, right, autographs a group picture made in the Blue Note nightclub during a jazz concert for teenagers in Chicago, Ill....

Matthew A. Henson, 81, is shown in his apartment in New York City on March 26, 1948. (AP Photo)

Lord Louis Mountbatten, interim governor-general of India, and Lady Mountbatten, foreground right, walk in stocking feet following the custom of remov...

Celeste Holm, center, and George Seaton, right, hold their Oscar statuettes for

Oscar winner Loretta Young, left, embraces Oscar nominee Rosalind Russell at a Hollywood party following the 1947 annual Academy Awards presentations...

Actress Celeste Holm gives her acceptance speech after winning an Oscar at the 1947 Academy Awards presentation at the Shrine Civic Auditorium in Los...

Matthew Alexander Henson, right, receives the gold medal of the Geographic Society of Chicago from Comdr. Eugene F. McDonald, Jr., on March 9, 1948....

The Douglas DC-6 airliner is shown in flight on March 9, 1948. The four-engined five-mile-a-minute passenger plane carries from 52-58 passengers as a...

New members of Haganah, Jewish defense organization in Palestine, are shown March 9, 1948. They are on a training march from one of several secret ca...

Britain's Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects a Guard of Honor in Burma on March 8, 1948. (AP Photo)

Gen. Charles de Gaulle addresses a large crowd in the Place du Palais of Palais de Compiegne, Paris, France, on March 7, 1948. De Gaulle appears on t...

Arab snipers move away from a flaming Jewish truck in the Sheik Jarrah quarter of Jerusalem after dragging the body of driver from armored cab and dum...

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