AP Historical Hard Drive 2003

During a memorial service aboard an unknown Essex-class carrier, U.S. soldiers stand in reverence next to the bodies of their fellow servicemen, who w...

A plaster works and mill reduced to a tangled mass of wreckage by a bomb dump explosion which devasted the countryside, a few miles from Burton-on-Tre...

Rescue workers search the debris of a wrecked plaster works, Nov. 28, 1944, looking for victims of the underground bomb-dump explosion which devastate...

Smoke billows from a Japanese transport ship after being bombed by U.S. carrier based planes, off Marinduque island south of Luzon, in the Philippines...

Soldiers of the 1st French Army escort an elderly woman across a debris-littered railroad overpass to her home on the other side, in Belfort, France,...

President Franklin Roosevelt greets a young admirer as he sits outside his home in Hyde Park, N.Y., on election night, November 7, 1944. Behind him st...

Filipino guerrilla fighters are seen as they close in on Japanese snipers hidden in a village hut, at Carigaria on Leyte island, Philippines, in Novem...

U.S. infantrymen are about to enter a damaged building where they suspect a German sniper hiding out, in Geilenkirchen, Germany, in November 1944. (A...

Filipino guerrillas under Capt. Jesus Omeda's command come into a 7th Division command post for a conference with Maj. A.V. Arnold from their position...

A U.S. Army convoy advances on a rugged path along a river valley, through mountainous terrain southwest of Bologna, Italy, in November 1944. (AP Phot...

Ground crew members prepare bombs to be loaded into the racks of the waiting B-29 Superforts, at a U.S. airbase on Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, in...

A U.S. Army mortar crew is seen in combat against German positions, near Massa, Italy, in November 1944. (AP Photo)

A formation of B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces is seen in flight over Saipan, during the U.S. invasion of the Mariana island gr...

Hollywood actor Lew Ayres, a conscientious objector who is a noncombatant medic in the battlefield in the South Pacific, treats the foot of a Filipino...

Comedian and actor Bob Hope entertains a large crowd of American service men at the airstrip in Munda, New Georgia, on Oct. 31, 1944 during World War...

The Japanese battleship Yamato is hit by two bombs near the forward turret tower, during the Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Philippine Sea, on October 2...

U.S. troops head toward the beaches of Leyte island during the amphibious assault to reconquest the Philippines, on October 20, 1944. (AP Photo)

Comedian Bob Hope entertains a large crowd of G.I.s, mostly patients who are wrapped in blankets, at a hospital in New Caledonia in the Pacific during...

American B-17 Flying Fortresses pass over Stargard-Kluetzow, as their bombs strike the installations of the military airfields in the Pomerania region...

U.S. Navy carrier St. Lo is seen afire after being bombed by Japanese planes during the Second Battle of the Philippines Sea, off the coast of Samar,...

After the defeat of the German troops, Polish civilians appear out of their hiding places to return to their homes, in an unknown town in Poland, in O...

Pvt. Mickey Rooney, who is currently stationed for wartime service at Camp Sibert, Ala., and his bride Betty Jane Rase, 17, smile happily after their...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, second from left, and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, center, are shown during convocation ceremon...

American singer Bing Crosby entertains more than 4,000 U.S. Army 8th Air Force men, their guests, and 42 truckloads of wounded British and American tr...

Two young French women, with their dresses torn and their heads shaved, are marched barefoot through the streets of Paris by armed civilians, in Septe...

American infantrymen advance along shell-wrecked buildings in Lambezello, during the Allied invasion of Italy, in September 1944. (AP Photo)

With the battleships of the U.S. fleet standing in the background, troops of the 81st

British paratroopers land in the outskirts of the city of Arnhem, in eastern Netherlands, in September 1944. (AP Photo)

As a symbolic act to demonstrate the defeat of the German Wehrmacht, a British Royal Air Force man hangs his washed clothes across barbed wire on the...

The P-59A Airacomet, the first American jet-propelled plane, is shown in flight in Sept. 1944. The new Bell aircraft fighter featuring twin intake ve...

Allied troop transport planes soar overhead St. Armand church in Geel, in the Antwerp province of Belgium, in September 1944. (AP Photo)

On their advance through Poland, Soviet infantrymen and tank units enter the town of Praga, a suburb of Polish capital Warsaw, in September 1944. (AP...

Captured German soldiers line up on a square at Amiens, in the Somme region of northern France, in September 1944. (AP Photo)

American singer Bing Crosby, right, entertains servicemen and women at the United Service Organizations (USO) new Stage Door Canteen in London, Englan...

Seen from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, Parisians line the Champs Elysees to salute motorized units of the 28th U.S. Infantry Division on their para...

Thousands of Parisians jam the Place de Greve next to the city hall of Paris to celebrate the liberating American and Free French forces, on August 26...

This aerial view shows the layout of the largest concentration camp and death camp run by Nazi Germany during World War II at Auschwitz near the Polis...

Actress Joan Blondell is seen on August 24, 1944, in character as

Pvt. Mickey Rooney attends a Hollywood movie premiere with his mother, Nell Pankey, on Aug. 17, 1944. The actor is back in Hollywood after completing...

Sitting next to her mother, young actress Ann Blyth is making a wish as she puffs out the sixteen candles on her birthday cake, while on vacation from...

Wounded German soldiers, captured in the Allied invasion of southern France, are guarded by American soldiers in the background, at an unknown locatio...

This aerial view shows workers at a final assembly room of anti aircraft guns being completed at the Pontiac Plant in Pontiac, Mich., Aug. 13, 1944....

Workers in the barrel rifling section at the U.S. arsenal turn out barrels for Garand semi-automatic rifles in Springfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1944, duri...

Men of the French Forces of the Interior are supported by a French tank as they battle against German occupation forces, during the liberation of Pari...

During the days of liberation in France, men of the Free French forces of the Interior together with ordinary citizens man a barricade as they await a...

Parachutes are dropped from C-47 planes of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force troop carrier division, as paratroopers and supplies float between Nice and Ma...

Local French Resistance fighters wave their rifles overhead as they greet British troops arriving at their village Quillebeuf, France, August 1944. Th...

British soldiers march past the ruins of a church in the war-damaged town of Pont-L'Eveque, in the Normandy region of France, in August 1944. (AP Phot...

A captured German soldier covers his eyes as he sits behind barbed wire, at an unknown prison camp in the Normandy region of France, in August 1944. (...

A column of black smoke rises from a burning German tank, after it was hit by a Canadian tank, as the Allied invasion troops drive toward Falaise, nea...