AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

U.S. tanks move in the snow and ice from the town of Tri-le-Cheslaing, Belgium, on Jan. 7, 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The a...

During the Battle of the Bulge, on January 6, 1945, three C-47 transport planes are underway to supply isolated U.S. airborne units, which are surroun...

During the last German counteroffensive on the western front, a German tank unit moves through a village in the Hohe Venn region, near Malmedy, Belgiu...

B-24 Liberator bombers from the U.S. Army 7th Air Force hit targets at Lahug Airfield, on Cebu, in the Philippines, on January 6, 1945. (AP Photo)

During the Battle of the Bulge, on January 6, 1945, a formation of C-47 transport planes overflies American tank units, underway to supply isolated U....

After Japanese bombers hit and set fire to the aircraft on the flight deck, crewmen aboard an unknown U.S. carrier are battling the flames, on January...

American infantrymen take positions on the front line just past Amonines, Belgium, January 4, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge. (AP Photo)

American infantrymen of the 290th Regiment, armed with rifles and bazookas, move through fresh snowfall in a forest near Amonines, Belgium, on January...

American infantrymen of the 290th Regiment move through fresh snowfall as they advance against German troops in a forest near Amonines, Belgium, on Ja...

American soldiers in a jeep drive past the frozen bodies of fellow soldiers, who were killed in combat during the German counteroffensive in the Arden...

During the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region, a German soldier is looking through American ration boxes and uniforms, somewhere in the Be...

During the Battle of the Bulge, on January 3, 1945, a U.S. troop carrier plane drops parapacks down to isolated U.S. airborne units, which were surpri...

German soldiers killed during battle lie in the snow on a road in Belgium in 1945 during World War II. They were fighting with the men of 82nd Airbor...

Two wreaths mark the spot where persons were last seen and are believed to lie buried beneath the pile of rubble that was once a house in Dresden, Ger...

The booted feet of a dead Japanese soldier, foreground, protrude from beneath a mound of earth on Iwo Jima during the American invasion of the Japanes...

Japanese night raiders are greeted with a lacework of antiaircraft fire by the U.S. Marine defenders of Yontan airfield, on Okinawa, in 1945 during Wo...

Two American infantrymen fill bottles and a tin hat at a water pump near Samree, in January 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes regio...

This undated photograph shows a U.S. Marine operating a water-cooled .30 caliber machine gun in protection of his comrades advancing, during the inv...

An old Japanese symbol to ward off evil spirits is drawn in the sand on a beach near Okayama, seen in this aerial view from 1945. (AP Photo)

A group of Japanese nurses lines up upon the surrender of their army unit to the victorious U.S. Americal Division, on Cebu island, Philippines, in 19...

Two wounded U.S. Navy crewmen are given medical attention aboard the USS Kalinin Bay, on January 1, 1945. (AP Photo)

During the Battle of the Bulge, a U.S. Army half track crosses a temporary bridge over the Ourthe river, in the war-torn Belgian city of Houffalize,...

This 1945 photo shows German women clearing up the debris on Berlin's Tauentzienstrasse, with the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Church in the background...

A U.S. Marine of the 1st Division takes aim and fires with his machine gun at a Japanese sniper as his comrade ducks for cover, during the divisions a...

New York Giants' Ward Cuff is shown in this 1945 photo. Cuff, an all-purpose running back who helped the New York Giants win the NFL title in 1938, h...

While Americans at home carry gas ration books, hundreds of drums of gasoline are rolled up on the sand of Luzon island from a Coast Guard LST in 1945...

A German officer eats C-rations as he sits amid the ruins of Saarbruecken, a German city and stronghold along the Siegfried Line, in early spring 1945...

American infantrymen are seen as they march through the blockades of the Siegfried Line and enter Germany, in 1945, at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Sprawled across the deck of an LCT, these 221 Japanese prisoners of war are being brought to a Coast Guard-manned transport ship at Guam, for transfer...

Native Moro outrigger canoes approach a U.S. Coast Guard troop transport at an unknown harbor in the Philippines, in 1945. These men, members of a num...

A great part of Wesel, Germany, lies destroyed in spring 1945, after Allied artillery troops fought their way street by street through the city. Prior...

Destroyed beyond recognition, the Roman Catholic Church of Urakami stands out over the burn-razed cityscape of Nagasaki, in 1945, after the second ato...

Belgian girls and American soldiers of an armored division share a peaceful moment while washing clothes in a stream, in January 1945, somewhere along...

Black smoke rises from an Allied air base after a New Year's Day attack of the German Luftwaffe, on January 1, 1945, in Eindhoven, Netherlands. (AP...

Chinese Nationalist Army soldiers lie prone on the rooftop of a Chinese temple as they fend off attacking Japanese forces, during the Second Sino-Japa...

This undated photo shows some of the parachute-borne supplies dropped from Britsh Royal Airforce planes over an unknown location in Yugoslavia, during...

U.S. troops are seen as they cross the Irrawaddy river near Tigyiang, Burma, on December 30, 1944, on a barge powered by outboard motors. The men, the...

Standing on a snow-covered battlefield, these American infantrymen of the 4th Armored Division fire at German troops, in an advance to relieve pressu...

U.S. Marines are seen as they bring equipment and vehicles ashore during landing operations at Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island, on December 26, 19...

Alerted crewmen of an M-51 antiaircraft battery are silhouetted against a sky streaked with vapor trails, as they watch Allied and German fighter plan...

An infantryman from the 82nd Airborne Division goes out on a one-man sortie while covered by a comrade in the background, near Bra, Belgium, on Decemb...

In spite of all efforts of the medics who had given him first aid, this American soldiers dies in the gutter of Schevenhutte, Germany, after being hit...

Some of the more than 1,000 soldiers found in a German Prisoner of War camp captured by American troops near Sarreguemines, France, look through the b...

Alert members of a 20mm antiaircraft gun crew aboard a Navy cruiser covering the Mindoro island landing in the Philippines, strain their eyes to spot...

Blind folded servicemen select a woman's shoe from a pile and try to fit it on the correct foot as they play the slipper game with United Service Org...

After being hit in a Japanese air raid, a B-29 Superfortress explodes in ball of fire, while crewmen of the U.S. air base try to fight the inferno, on...

Poet Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is shown on Dec. 12, 1944 at an unknown location. Frost won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1924...

On their advance into Germany, American infantrymen are seeking cover from German shellfire behind a tank, in the destroyed village of Geich, near Due...

The poison gas chamber building of the German concentration camp at Bught, the Netherlands, is shown Dec. 7, 1944. The sign on the outside of the bui...

U.S. soldiers at the Saipan airbase, in the Mariana Islands, watch as a B-29 Superfortress takes off for an air raid on the Japanese mainland, in Dece...