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Margot de Vaulchier, from Rio De Janeiro, a student at the Traphagen School of Fashion, models a 1921 sheer evening creation during a show called

Workers lift their hats during opening celebration as the cutting machine makes the first incision in an exposed bituminous coal seam nine feet thick...

The noose is placed over the hooded head of Philip Gutlich for the murder of American airmen at the gallows at Bruchsal Prison in Germany on Nov. 10,...

Johann Seipel, the first to be executed for the murder of American airmen, looks up at the gallows as his hands are secured behind him at Bruchsal Pri...

Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, seated, left, celebrates his 50th birthday at a party given for him in New York City, Nov. 8, 1945. Standing from lef...

A radio-controlled Bell Airacomet lands solely by remote control, at Wright Field, Ohio, on November 8, 1945. The robot plane, developed by Bell and A...

A new car comes off the Ford assembly line at the Edgewater plant, N.J., Oct. 23, 1945. (AP Photo)

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Army halfback Felix Blanchard (35) weaves away as three Michigan men close in to spill him after a three-yard first period gain in the Army-Michigan g...

Barbara Bel Geddes is seen in this October 12, 1945 photo. The 22-year-old actress is praised lavishly by critics for her current role in the drama

German displaced persons wait with their few belongings at the Anhalter Station in Berlin as they prepare to leave the German capital in Oct. 1945 in...

A displaced German woman and her child rest on their blanket-wrapped possessions while waiting for a train in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 1945. They may wa...

British sailors on horseback are seen patroling the streets of Kowloon City on Kowloon Peninsula, in October 1945, shortly after the British dependenc...

Residents of Berlin hunt through a dumping ground near Templehof Airport in search for food and fuel in Oct. 1945 in the aftermath of World War II. T...

A German school girl writes on the blackboard during an English lesson at her school, in Berlin, Germany, on September 29, 1945. This is one of over 2...

Lt. Gordon J. Steiner teaches one of the two bookkeeping and accounting classes at Kilmer College, the army camp's first educational institution, at C...

Army women and men are shown at Kilmer College, the first army school in the U.S. for members not eligible for immediate discharge, at Camp Kilmer, N....

New York City's Chinese residents begin their victory parade in the rain from Chinatown, Sept. 18, 1945. The event marks the 14th anniversary of the...

The battleship USS New York, veteran of the Okinawa and Iwo Jima campaigns, returns with World War II veterans at San Pedro, Ca., Sept. 9, 1945. Radi...

Liberated prisoners of war, mostly British, discovered in a Japanese prison camp on Formosa, Sept. 5, 1945, by a Pacific fleet mercy unit. Destroyer e...

The war cemetery at Agat, Guam, is seen in this September 1945 photo. U.S. troops are standing at attention during a memorial service. (AP Photo)

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, right, wife of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, smiles as she listens to President Truman during a visit to the White Hous...

British and Australian prisoners of war march out of Camp No. 6, a Japanese prison camp on Formosa, where they have been imprisoned for the past three...

The Andrews Sisters, from left, Patty, Maxene and Laverne, are shown at the U.S.O. Camp Show headquarters on West 40th St. in New York City on Aug. 20...

Blonde bombshell Betty Hutton is carried on some joyous G.I.'s shoulders, after her USO show at U.S. Army redeployment center Camp Detroit, at Reims,...

Japanese cavalry troops on maneuvers along the Amur river in Manchuria are engaged in a battle with Soviet Red Army troops attacking fom the north, in...

Military installations are left blazing after a bombing run of carrier-based aircraft of the 3rd U.S. Fleet, on southeastern Hokkaido, Japan, in Augus...

Carrier-based planes of the U.S. Fast Carrier Task Force 38 score a direct hit on the fantail of Japanese battleship Haruna, at Kure seaport, on south...

Superintendent Henry O. Hill, background wearing hat, holds a weekly class in agriculture for wounded World War II soldiers from nearby McCloskey Gene...

U.S. carrier-based planes bomb a Japanese warship, at Kure seaport on southwestern Honshu, Japan, on July 24, 1945. (AP Photo)

U.S. carrier-based planes bomb a Japanese warship, at Kure seaport, on southwestern Honshu, Japan, on July 24, 1945. (AP Photo)

Movie actress Marlene Dietrich greets veterans on the Monticello after the ship docked in New York City on July 20, 1945 in World War II. (AP Photo)

George W. Rappelyea, an engineer with the Hibgins Industries, Inc., sits in his office in New Orleans, La., July 10, 1945. Rappelyea holds a photogra...

This airview, taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American...

The Union Jack flies again over the Round Tower at Windsor Castle, seen from the river bank on the Eton side of the Thames, on July 8, 1945. (AP Phot...

Part of Windsor Castle is seen from the grounds which are once again open to the public on July 3, 1945. The Union Jack flies atop the Round Tower, c...

Filipino guerrillas, fighting with U.S. troops on Leyte Island, sharpen their skills with traditional weapons, bolos, before joining operations in the...

Comedienne and actress Eve Arden and her husband, Pfc. Ned Bergen, are shown at LaRue restaurant in Hollywood, Ca., June 17, 1945. Pfc. Bergen is on...

A 22,000 pound bomb, known as the Grand Slam, is hoisted from a bomb dump at an unknown Royal Air Force airfield in England, June 16, 1945. The new sp...

This aerial view of midtown Manhattan, looking north from the roof of the St. Regis Hotel at 55th Street and Fifth Avenue, shows Central Park and surr...

Performer Gertrude Lawrence climbs up the ladder of a Coast Guard-manned LSTas she arrives to entertain the crew and U.S. Marines aboard while touring...

Incendiary bombs are dropped from B-29 Superforts of the U.S. Army Air Forces on landing piers of Kobe harbor, Japan, on June 4, 1945. (AP Photo)

Seen from a U.S. carrier, a Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the sea as he is shot down by antiaircraft fire, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in...

Incendiary bombs are being dropped from B-29's Superforts of the U.S. Army Air Forces, during a bomb run over Yokohama, Japan, on May 29, 1945. (AP Ph...

The German 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen is tied alonside a quay at Copenhagen, Denmark, and guarded by Danish soldiers after the surrender of the ba...

General George S. Patton and Lieut. General Nikonor D. Zahwataeff, commanding officer of the Russian Guard Army, salute as they inspect men of the 65...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, left, later Queen Elizabeth II, talks to a member of the Lewisham Women's Voluntary Service, or WVS, right, watched by h...

U.S. Rep. Ed V. Izak of California, a member of a congressional group viewing Nazi atrocities, looks at bones and charred remains of bodies of prisone...

Ruins line the deserted streets of Hamburg, Germany, May 4, 1945, showing the extent of destruction caused by Allied bombardment in previous weeks. Ha...

Sailors Bob Nethery, left, of Powell, Wyo., and Bob Wickford of Patterson, Ca., celebrate the newspaper headline