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A cluster of bombs from Flying Fortresses and Liberators are dropped over Berlin during the U.S. air raid on the German capital on March 6, 1944 in W...

Oscar nominees Jennifer Jones, left, and Ingrid Bergman are shown at the 1943 Academy Awards held at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ca., on M...

As the U.S. Pacific Fleet's carrier planes strike against enemy bases in the Palau Group, five Japanese battleships are hit and set afire. The photo i...

Pictures of hundreds of pin-up girls adorn the entire wall of this bomber crew shack on Adak Island in the Aleutians in Alaska, March 1944 during Worl...

Marshal Josip Broz Tito, leader of the united Yugoslav Partisan Armed Forces to fight the German invaders and their Croatian Fascist allies, is accomp...

Men of a Polish division wave goodbye from the open door of a railroad car as they leave for the eastern frontlines, at an unknown location in the Sov...

Allied shells are bombarding German positions at Monte Cassino and Cassino city, Italy, in February 1944, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Mary Margaret Truman, center, gets ready to smash a champagne bottle against the prow of the U.S. Navy's latest 45,00-ton battleship, the USS Missouri...

New York's Chinatown officially opens its fourth War Loan Drive with a parade and rally along Mott St., looking north in this view, on Jan. 23, 1944.

Jean MacArthur, second wife of the Allied Supreme Commander in the Southwest Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur, is escorted through a lane of sailors...

American writer and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, center, talks to Native American Indian soldiers on the 5th Army on the Cassino Front in Italy,...

Mildred Bailey performs on her musical radio program

A U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress is accidently hit by a bomb from another B-17 flying above, over an unknown location during World War II,...

American paratroopers drop from a fleet of carrier planes to land near Grave in the Netherlands in 1944 during World War II. In the foreground, left,...

Emil Sitko is seen in this 1944 photo while in the Naval Air Station in Oklahoma. On Thanksgiving Day 1943, Sitko, playing for the Great Lakes Naval...

Performers Dinah Shore, left, and Bing Crosby entertain 400 members of an engineer company of the American Third Army in France for the United Service...

Bing Crosby sings for an audience of 400 members of an engineers company of the American Third Army in France while singer Dinah Shore, left, radio an...

Actress Bette Davis is shown in a 1944 photo. (AP Photo)

German prisoners of war are seen as they carry the body of an American soldier through deep snow, during the Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes sect...

As the U.S. invasion at Papua New Guinea continues, U.S. bombers attack Japanese installations on the beach at Cape Gloucester, on New Britain, in Jan...

As the U.S. invasion at Papua New Guinea gets underway, a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber attacks Japanese installations on the beach at Cape Gloucester,...

Bronko Nagurski, who came out of retirement to help the Chicago Bears win the Western title of the National pro football league, works out for the tit...

Actress Shelley Winters strikes a pin-up pose in this December 24, 1943 picture, especially for her husband Lt. Mack P. Mayer, a U.S. Army Air Forces...

Film director and producer D.W. Griffith is shown with his cat in Los Angeles, Ca., on Dec. 7, 1943. (AP Photo)

Entertainers with the United Service Organizations (USO), from left, Spike Jones, Ed Gardner, Kay Kyser, Nelson Eddy, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Dinah Sh...

American actor Capt. James Stewart appears at a news conference in London, England, where he has taken command of a U.S. Liberator Bomber B-24 squadro...

Bombs are dropped from U.S. aircraft, bound for the submarine yards and docks at German port and town Bremen, on November 13, 1943. (AP Photo)

Actresses Helen Hayes, Ruth Chatterton, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin and Myrna Loy, from left, are seen at a meeting of the New York Women's Divisio...

German tanks roll along on a mountain road of the Dalmatian coastal area as Nazi Germans advance in Dalmatia on Nov. 6, 1943 during World War II. (AP...

A formation of Heinkel He 111 bombers of the German Luftwaffe is seen in November 1943, during World War II. (AP Photo)

The first annual outdoor Chrysanthemum exhibit is underway at the Conservatory Gardens in Central Park, New York City, Oct. 26, 1943. (AP Photo)

Land army girls work on a patch of ground they have cultivated next to their hostel, while the hostel's nurse looks on, Oct. 18, 1943 in Coventry, Eng...

Residents of Rome, Italy, stand close to Pope Pius XII, his hands clasped in prayer, on Oct. 15, 1943, during his inspection tour of the Italian capit...

Residents of Rome, Italy, gather around Pope Pius XII, his arms outstretched, on Oct. 15, 1943, during his inspection tour of the Italian capital afte...

Men, women and soldiers gather around Pope Pius XII, his arms outstretched, on Oct. 15, 1943, during his inspection tour of Rome, Italy, after the Aug...

Notre Dame's Angelo Bertelli, left, and Johnny Lujack chat on Oct. 14, 1943. Bertelli threw 10 touchdown passes and the team averaged 43.5 points in j...

A U.S. Vega-built B-17G Flying Fortress introduces a new protection feature against head-on enemy fighter attacks, in form of a chin turret, mounting...

Marine Corps Women Reserves undergoing training at Camp Lejeune, New River, N.C., get their first ride in a landing boat of the type used by the Marin...

Actor William Boyd takes time off to chat with youngsters who came to watch him work on the set of

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, second right, tours the farms on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, Aug. 17, 1943. Also on the...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret pick dwarf beans from their own allotments at Windsor Castle, England, Aug. 8, 1943. (AP Photo)

Dressed in a magic man's outfit, actor Orson Welles feigns surprise when a soldier from the audience steps onto the stage and

German infantrymen take cover as an artillery shell from the attacking Soviet Red Army bursts nearby, at an unknown battlefield along the German-Russi...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, right, and Princess Margaret Rose, in their Girl Guide uniforms, practice their bandaging skil...

A U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator overflies plumes of black smoke rising from bombed facilities of the Astro Romano oil refinery at Ploiesti, Roma...

Comedian and actor Bob Hope entertains the U.S.A.A.F. personnel crowd on an American airfield in Britain during World War II on July 27, 1943. Hope i...

A group of Polish women at the Marie Curie School for Girls study English with their teacher, in striped dress, during an outdoor class session in Sco...

Polish women are shown in a classroom at the Marie Curie School for Girls in Scotland on July 25, 1943, as they continue their education during World...

Marines of the Women's Reserve settle in their barracks while talking things over after their first day at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on July 24, 1943. (AP...

Marines of the Women's Reserve arrive in large groups for training at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on July 24, 1943. (AP Photo)