AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

Defeated Japanese soldiers file down a road toward a dispersal camp at North Malaya, on November 15, 1945, after World War II ended with Japan's uncon...

Kenneth Claiborne Royall, left, Goldsboro, N.C., attorney, is sworn into office as Undersecretary of War by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, c...

Donal C. Ross, of Pinehurst, N.C. meets with Ben Hogan, right at the country club before the North and South Open Golf Championship gets underway Nov....

A Japanese unit surrenders to the U.S. Army Americal Division on Cebu, Philippines, on November 6, 1945. (AP Photo)

Japanese officers line up to turn over their swords as they surrender to U.S. troops at an unknown location, on November 5, 1945, after World War II e...

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, seated fourth from left in the front row, turns his head around to talk to General Alfred Jodl, during the trial of Nazi...

Three Recovered Allied Military Personnel (RAMPS) devour their first American meal in three years, consisting of rations dropped by parachute at a POW...

A wrecked Russian T-34 tank abandoned at the corner of Marszal Focha and Zwierzyniecka Streets is used as an advertising post in Posen, Poland, 1945,...

Barracuda aircraft are flying in formation above the HMS Swiftsure, as the British Royal Navy battleship is under way to Hong Kong to accept surrender...

A sacred Torii Gate stands erect over the completely destroyed area of a Shinto shrine in Nagasaki, in October 1945, after the second atomic bomb ever...

A Japanese naval shore patrol marches down a street in Ominato, Japan, on September 26, 1945. (AP Photo)

A battered religious figure stands witness on a hill above a burn-razed valley at Nagasaki, on September 24, 1945, after the second atomic bomb ever u...

Pedestrians cross the intersection of State and Madison Streets, considered one of the busiest corner in the city, in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 19, 1945....

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Citizens of Shanghai cheer as the first Chinese troops to enter Shanghai in many years debark the American transport plane on Sept. 15, 1945. The Chi...

Shanghai citizens cheer Chinese Kuomintang troops as they disembark a U.S. Army Air Forces transport plane upon their arrival in the Chinese city and...

After an air raid by U.S. B-29 bombers based on the Marianas, workers at the Mitsubishi Aircraft Plant at Nagoya stand amid the wreckage of fighter pl...

A few steel and concrete buildings and bridges are still intact in Hiroshima after the Japanese city was hit by an atomic bomb by the U.S., during Wor...

Japanese prisoners of war line up for an attendance check inside a war stockade, on Guam, Mariana Islands, on September 5, 1945. (AP Photo)

General Tomoyuki Yamashita, center, Commander of all Japanese forces in the Philippines, is seen upon his arrival as a prisoner of war at New Bilibid...

F4U and F6F fighter planes are flying in formation over the USS Missouri, while the surrender ceremonies to end World War II take place aboard the U.S...

The Japanese signatories arrive aboard the USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945, to participate in the formal surrender ceremonies to end Wor...

Spectators and photographers pick vantage positions on the deck of the USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay, on September 2, 1945, to watch the formal Japanese...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs the Japanese surrender documents, September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Standing behind him are Lt. G...

Pope Pius XII, wearing the ring of St. Peter, raises his right hand in papal blessing as he sits upon his throne in the Vatican on Sept. 1945. The Po...

British RAF Prisoners at Japanese Changi prison camp celebrate their liberation, in Singapore, China, in September 1945. (AP Photo)

Civilians and demobilized Japanese soldiers crowd the trains at Hiroshima, on their way home after the end of World War II in September 1945. (AP Phot...

Demobilized Japanese soldiers crowd the trains at Hiroshima, taking advantage of free transportation to their homes after the end of World War II, in...

A victim of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare is seen in September 1945, at the Ujina Branch of the First Army Hospital in Hiroshima. The the...

U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, smoking his corncob pipe, views landing operations after his arrival at Atsugi Airport near Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 30, 1945....

Allied prisoners of war at Aomori camp, near Yokohama, wave flags of the United States, Great Britain and Holland, as they cheer the arrival of their...

Japanese envoy Makimura, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Hong Kong, is seen alighting from an Avenger plane to discuss surrender terms with Allied...

A Soviet soldier peers over the edge of a Japanese fort, on August 23, 1945, at an unknown location in China. On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union offi...

A British Navy plane is bombing an unknown airfield in Japan, on August 23, 1945. (AP Photo)

Members of a Japanese military delegation are seen as they disembark an U.S. Air Transport plane on their arrival to receive the Allies' instructions...

A plane on the flight deck of escort carrier USS Sangamon explodes in a ball of fire, during a Japanese night attack, on August 20, 1945. (AP Photo)

Aircraft carrier USS Hancock is seen afire, on August 20, 1945, after it was bombed near the home island of Kyushu, Japan, during World War II. (AP P...

Docked at Pier 88 in Manhattan, New York City, these soldiers aboard the U.S.S. General Harry Taylor are celebrating their homecoming after World War...

A Japanese prisoners of war at Guam, Mariana Islands, covers his face as he hears Japanese Emperor Hirohito making the announcement of Japan's uncondi...

Japanese prisoners of war at Guam, Mariana Islands, bow their heads as they hear Japanese Emperor Hirohito making the announcement of Japan's uncondit...

Thousands of jubilant people celebrate V-J Day as they gather on New York's Times Square, after the official announcement that the Japanese had accept...

Civilians and service personnel wave flags and shout with joy in New York's Times Square, Aug. 14, 1945 after official announcement that Japan has sur...

People crowd the streets in celebration of the Chinese New Year, in New York City's Chinatown, on August 14, 1945. (AP Photo)

A sailor and a nurse kiss passionately in Manhattan's Times Square, as New York City celebrates the end of World War II, on August 14, 1945. The celeb...

A jubilant crowd of American Italians are seen as they wave flags and toss papers in the air while celebrating Japan's unconditional surrender in thei...

Upon hearing the news of Japan's peace bid, U.S. Marines on Okinawa island celebrate by firing their guns into the air, on August 10, 1945. (AP Photo...

Commanding officer and pilot Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. waves from the cockpit of his bomber plane at its base in Tinian, on August 6, 1945, shortly bef...

Shortly after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the United States over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, survivors are seen as t...

Survivors of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare are seen as they await emergency medical treatment, on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan. Th...

Some of the 983 civilian war refugees from occupied Europe are shown outside the mess hall buildings at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N.Y., Aug. 5, 1944. The...