AP Historical Hard Drive 2003

Gurkha soldiers of the British 14th Army move past two Chinthe statues at the entrance of a temple complex, at Prome, Burma, in May 1945. These statue...

New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, right, NYC Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, center, and David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garmen...

Actress Betty Grable poses in a costume from her new film

Honor guards salute the flag-draped casket bearing the body of late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as it is carried into the White House, on April 1...

U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, is accompanied by his wife as he arrives at the White House in Washington, on April 12, 1945, fo...

Dead bodies are stacked on the ground at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation by American forces near Weimar, Germany, in April 1945 in Worl...

Night club goers are forced to leave the Cafe Zanzibar in compliance with the midnight curfew in New York City on March 22, 1945. (AP Photo/Tom Fitz...

Two U.S. Helldivers fly over burning hangars of Omura airfield, after an attack on the base at the Japanese island of Kyushu, on March 18, 1945. (AP P...

Fulgencio Batista, who was President of Cuba from 1940-1944, is seen while visiting the United States, in San Francisco, Calif., on March 17, 1945. (A...

Troops of the U.S. 5th Infantry Division, 3rd U.S. Army, move through the ruins of Bitburg, in southwestern Germany, March 2, 1945, led by a G.I. carr...

U.S. mortar crews and riflemen attack Japanese entrenchments on the lawn of the presidential residence, the Malacanang Palace, in Manila, Philippines,...

Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographer, is shown with his camera equipment looking over Iwo Jima, Japanese volcano island, in March 1945 during...

U.S. Marines move past the body of a Japanese sniper, who refused to surrender from his position in a cliffside cave, in March 1945, in the Marianas I...

People are shown enjoying the entertainment at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe club in New York City, Feb. 27, 1945, before the midnight curfew for ent...

Bursting bombs send up sprays of debris as they land on the rail marshalling yards at Munich, Germany, on Feb. 25, 1945 in World War II. The large-sc...

Two Japanese ships are under attack by U.S. Navy carrier-based planes, near the entrance of Quinhon harbor, in Japanese-occupied French-Indochina, in...

The ocean liner Normandie lies heavily tilting at New York's Pier 88 at 49th Street, on February 10, 1945, after a massive fire broke out aboard the f...

An airborne B-17 Flying Fortress of the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force passes over Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 3, 1945. This plane was one of a force of 1,0...

U.S. soldiers sit in the cover of a supporting tank, on their advance into the town of Coblenz, in the Rhineland- Palatinate region of Germany, in Feb...

Bombs are dropped from an American B-17 Flying Fortress over the German capital of Berlin, in February 1945. (AP Photo)

Black smoke rises from burning targets at the Kawasaki aircraft plant as U.S. planes bomb the factory facilities north of Tokyo, on January 19, 1945....

Japanese oil supplies are burning along the waterfront at the vital port and city of Saigon, in Japanese-occupied French Indochina, after an air raid...

Carrier-based planes from the USS Ticonderoga attack enemy installations and ships at the Saigon riverfront, in Japanese-occupied French-Indochina, on...

Leonard Bernstein, 26-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, is seen in New York, on January 5, 1945. (AP Photo...

A German Messerschmitt Me 210 destroyer plane veers off the wing of an American B-17 Flying Fortress, during an air battle over an unknown location in...

This combo of three photographs shows a 16-year old German soldiers as he reacts after being captured by U.S. forces, at an unknwn location in Germany...

U.S. carrier-based planes attack a Japanese transport ship, at an unknown location, during the Pacific War in 1945. (AP Photo)

The eastern side of the temple Erechtheum, built on the Acropolis during the Golden Age of Athens in Greece, is seen on Jan. 1, 1945. The statues of...

Members of a Japanese-American Howitzer Company gun crew load their weapon for action on the Fifth Army Front in Italy in 1945 during World War II. (...

Singer-actor Bing Crosby, left, visits singer-actress Judy Garland on the set of

A portion of the Acropolis, a fortified citadel constructed in the Golden Age of Athens, in Greece, is seen in 1945. (AP Photo)

An example of a Japanese propaganda poster from World War II, addressing U.S. soldiers as

This general view shows amtracs bogged down in the sands along the beaches of Iwo Jima after American invasion of the Japanese stronghold in 1945 duri...

A Soviet machine gun crew is seen as they cross a river along the second Baltic front, in January 1945. The soldier on the left is holding his rifle o...

This is a partial view of the marble seats at the theater of Dionysus, where Greek tragedies and comedies were produced, in Athens, Greece, in Jan. 19...

Basil Rathbone, right, as Sherlock Holmes, and Nigel Bruce, as Dr. Watson, are shown as their characters in

Japanese-Americans, members of the 442 Combat team, line up for food on the Fifth Army Front in Italy in 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo)

Illustrator and writer William Steig is shown in New York City in 1945. (AP Photo)

The Governor's Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii, is seen in January 1945 . (AP Photo)

The bodies of Benito Mussolini, left, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, center, hang by their heels as they are put on display in Milan's Piazzale Lore...

A Japanese twin-engine bomber is set afire from antiaircraft hits, after an unsuccessful attempt to crash into the U.S. carrier, during the Pacific Wa...

A formation of B-26 Marauders of the U.S. Army Air Forces is seen during a bomb run over Germany, in January 1945. (AP Photo)

Tap dancer Bill Robinson, known as Bojangles, far left, is assisted by Mary Bruce on piano as he leads young dancers to the

Japanese 90mm mortar shells explode amid a unit of U.S. Marines, as they advance through the village of Limon, on Leyte island, Philippines, in Decemb...

Hollywood actor Lew Ayres, a conscientious objector who is a noncombatant medic in the battlefield in the South Pacific, treats wounded Japanese soldi...

Ground crew workers at Saipan airbase load a train of trailers with heavy bombs, in preparation of forthcoming bomb runs of U.S. Superfortresses on Ja...

A sick woman is carried to the hospital in a folding deck chair, after the collapse of the Polish revolt in Warsaw, Poland, in December 1944. (AP Pho...

British fighter pilots look up as other RAF planes return from a bombing mission on Japanese installations, at an unknown airfield in Burma, in Decemb...

A B-24 Liberator of the U.S. Army 8th Air Forces bombs the facilities of the Deutsche Vacuum Oil, a vital oil refinery at Wedel-Schulau, in the outski...

A London firefighter and a civilian carry a wounded child through rubble and debris into safety, in December 1944, during World War II. (AP Photo)