AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

American airmen at Ofuna prison camp near Yokohama, Japan, cheer the news that they are to be transported directley to the United States by plane, Aug...

American soldiers are shown at Ofuna prison camp, 16 miles from Yokohoma, Japan, Aug. 1945. The Japanese interrogation camp is described by U.S. pris...

Lt. General Kataoka, center, hands over his sword to Major General William M. Arnold, Commander of the Americal Division, upon the surrender of his ar...

Three Japanese schoolgirls are seen weeping infront of Nipponese Emperor Hirohito's palace, on Imperial Plaza in Tokyo, in August 1945. (AP Photo)

The burned-out ruins of the German Reichstag in Berlin are seen in this photo from August 1945, three months after the Nazis surrendered to the Allied...

The battleship USS Missouri is seen firing from its sixteen-inch guns, at an unknown location during the Pacific War, in August 1945. (AP Photo)

Mount Fujiyama is seen from the USS Dakota, as the battleship lies off the coast of Japan, in Tokyo Bay, as part of the U.S Navy fleet, in August 1945...

Lord and Lady Mountbatten and their daughter Patricia, right, a third officer in the Wrens, pose in front of their home in London, England, July 31, 1...

A U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress raids the Nakajima aircraft plant at Ota, Japan, on July 27, 1945. (AP Photo)

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Harry S.Truman, and Soviet Premier and Supreme Commander Josef Stalin pose at the entrance of...

U.S.soldiers returning from the European Theater of War pack the decks of the Queen Elizabeth, as the ship steams into New York Harbor, on July 20, 19...

In flight over the Japanese city of Kobe, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress trails smoke and fire, on July 17, 1945. (AP Photo)

Ed Dudley, center, president of the PGA, presents Byron Nelson, right, with the PGA Championship trophy as Sam Byrd holds the other arm of the cup at...

After nearly six years of war-enforced darkness, the city lights of London, England, are bright again, July 15, 1945. Reflected in the River Thames a...

Japanese planes at Misawa airfield, Honshu, are seen burning after being hit during an air raid of U.S. Navy carrier-based bombers, on July 14, 1945....

A Japanese destroyer is under attack by U.S. Navy carrier-based fighter planes, at Muroran Bay, Hokkaido, on July 14, 1945. (AP Photo)

A British carrier is seen at an unknown location, on July 9, 1945, after it was attacked by a Japanese suicide bomber during World War II. (AP Photo)

After the surrender of Nazi Germany, Chaplain Samuel Blinder is seen in the cellar of the former Institute for Racial Sciences in Frankfurt, July 6, 1...

A burning Japanese kamikaze plane is seen as it plunges toward the ocean, on July 2, 1945, during the Pacific War in World War II. (AP Photo)

A U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang is seen in flight over an unknown location, during the Pacific war operations, in July 1945. (AP Photo)

TBM Avengers and SB2C Hellfires, based on the USS Essex, are seen dropping their bombs during an air raid on Hakodate, Hokkaido, in July 1945. (AP Pho...

Australian troops storm ashore in the first assault wave to take Balikpapan on the southeast coast of oil-rich Borneo, in July 1945. Standing in the L...

U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superforts of the 58th Bombardment Wing, called the

United Nations Conference delegates unanimously adopt the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, Ca., June 26, 1945. (AP Photo)

Okinawa natives are seen on a village street in Taria, on June 24, 1945, during the U.S. invasion of the island in southwestern Japan. (AP Photo)

Four B-29 bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces 21st Bomber Command raid the Naval Arsenal in Kure, Japan, on June 22, 1945. (AP Photo)

Men of the 151st U.S. Field Artillery fire their large gun at Japanese positions near Cordon, in northern Luzon island, Philippines, on June 22, 1945...

Comedian Milton Berle acts as one of the waiters and serves Pvt. Adrian Morgan, left, of Youngstown Ohio, and Pfc. Jacques Kappen of Antioch, Ohio, at...

At liberated German concentration camp Buchenwald, near Weimar, a 6-year-old war orphan with a Buchenwald badge on his sleeve is waiting during roll c...

U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers raid targets in Osaka, Japan, on June 8, 1945. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines from the 1st Regiment of the 4th Marine Division inspect a Japanese Baka suicide bomber at Yukosuka Naval Air Station, Japan, on June 6,...

These Jewish youngsters are on their way to the British Mandate of Palestine after being released from Buchenwald concentration camp, June 5, 1945, ne...

A Japanese phosphorous bomb explodes beneath a B-29 bomber of the 21st Bomber Command, during an U.S. Army Air Forces raid on Mitsubishi and Kawasaki...

A Japanese prisoners of war sits behind barbed wire after he and some 300 others were captured by the 6th U.S. Marine Division within the last 24 hour...

With its No. 3 engine out, this Tinian-based U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress continues its bombing run over Osaka, Japan, on June 1, 1945. (AP...

A U.S. Marine rifleman is silhouetted against the entrance to one of the caves that honeycomb the Okinawa hills where he looks out for Japanese sniper...

With the pilot visible, a U.S. Navy Chance-Vought F4U Corsair fighter plane is firing its load of rocket projectiles on the run against a Japanese str...

This combination of two photos shows (Top): A Japanese suicide plane with its bomb visible starts diving toward its target, a U.S. warship. (Bottom) W...

Wounded U.S. Marines are being given plasma transfusions by their fellow corpsmen at a forward station, on May 29, 1945, during the invasion of Okina...

People sunbathe on the beach and walk along the boardwalk at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 27, 1945. (AP Photo)

U.S. soldiers returning from the European Theater of War pack the decks of their transport ship as it steams into New York Harbor, on May 24, 1945. (...

Tanks and infantrymen of the Indian Army, British Imperial Forces, are seen as they advance into a burning village near Rangoon, Burma, on May 23, 194...

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division head for the front lines on Okinawa, on May 21, 1945, during the U.S. invasion of the island in southwestern Japan. (...

A Japanese suicide bomber goes down next to a U.S. Navy destroyer, during the Battle of Okinawa, on May 16, 1945. (AP Photo)

An unknown U.S. Navy carrier in the background is attacked by salvos from a Japanese warship, while the flight deck crew aboard the U.S. carrier in th...

A U.S. Navy warship burns after a Japanese kamikaze fighter crashed into it, during a battle off the coast of Biak Island, on May 16, 1945. (AP Phot...

This photo was taken aboard a U.S. fighter plane during an attack on hangars at Kanoya East Airfield, a Japanese airbase on southern Kyushu, on May 1...

Inside the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in England, destroyed by German air raids in 1940, wounded U.S. soldiers attend a Mother's Day service on May 1...

A Japanese suicide bomber leaves a trail of black smoke behind as it goes down in flames, during a battle off Kyushu Island, on May 12, 1945. (AP Phot...

After the liberation by American troops, bodies are removed for a decent burial at KZ Gusen, a satellite of the German concentration camp Mauthausen n...