AP Historical Hard Drive 2003

U.S. Army Air Forces Flying Fortresses are seen during a bomb run over the German city and port of Hamburg, on July 23, 1943. (AP Photo)

Silhouetted against the smoke pall over Hamburg are Flying Fortresses of the 8th Air Force and one lone Focke-Wulfe 190, far in the rear, as the bomb...

A meat cooler during World War II contains mostly empty hooks at a Chicago, Ill., Stockyards packing firm on July 8, 1943. (AP Photo)

A Liberator bomber plane of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force is hovering over the Sicilian port and town of Messina, terminus of the island's life line to...

A German reconnaissance plane has tracked down an Allied convoy, as seen from the aircraft's cockpit, in July 1943, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Under heavy attack by the advancing Soviet troops, these German soldiers crouch together in their trenches at Kuban bridgehead, in the north Caucasus...

A Soviet soldier aims and fires his machine gun, at an unknown location along the German-Russian front lines, in July 1943. (AP Photo)

Police use tear gas to disperse a crowd gathered on the main street of Detroit, Michigan, in an effort to halt race rioting, June 21, 1943. Some peopl...

A woman passenger climbs out of the rear window of a tram in Detroit, Michigan, June 21, 1943, after a mob halted the car in an effort to remove the b...

These youths, one stripped of all his clothes and the other badly beaten, fell victim to raging bands of servicemen who scoured the streets in Los Ang...

Sister Aimee Semple McPherson leads the singing during her regular sunday night service at Angelus Temple, in Los Angeles, Ca., on June 14, 1943. (AP...

With debris piled high in the streets and only few buildings still standing on the Italian island of Pantelleria, Allied soldiers make their way throu...

A group of U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 Lightning fighter planes are seen in perfect flying formation, on June 1, 1943, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of the British Imperial Forces are seen aboard a transport plane as they are flown back to base hospitals, during the Burma Campaign of World...

During a U.S. Army Air Forces bomb raid on synthetic rubber factories of the Huels AG, in Germany's vital industrial center in Nordrhine-Palatinate, a...

Jockey Johnny Longden is seated on Count Fleet in New York on May 22, 1943. Longden rode Count Fleet to thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown, with victo...

Actress Ava Gardner is seen on May 20, 1943, in Los Angeles, California. The 20-year-old wife of screen star Mickey Rooney announced that she filed fo...

Students at the Czechoslovakian State School pose on the steps in Whitechurch, England, May 15, 1943, during World War II. The two boys at the front,...

The British Royal Air Force fighter of the type Hawker Typhoon is seen in flying formation in this May 5, 1943 photo. The single seater, low-wing mono...

Miners listen to a news report on the radio in Harlan, Ky., on May 2, 1943. (AP Photo)

Two members of a U.S. submarine, operating in enemy waters, have tossed Molotov cocktails aboard a Japanese trawler, left, to sink the boat in Pacific...

Jacqueline Cochran, center, gesturing, is surrounded by female pilots during a bull session in the ready room at Avenger Field, near Sweetwater, Texas...

With his ivory-handled revolver on his hip, Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., sits on a hill while observing his troops roll through the El Guettar Va...

Three National Football League coaches, from left, Walter Kiesling, of Pittsburgh Steelers; Luke Johnson, co-owner of the Chicago Bears; and Steve Owe...

Soviet infantrymen move across snow-covered hills around Stalingrad, on their advance to lift the German siege of the city, during World War II, in Ma...

Larry Possis, the Leone wine steward, reaches into the bins of 1934 Orvieto from the cellar on March 26, 1943. (AP Photo)

The body of gangster Frank Nitti is carried away after it was found near a railroad embankment in Riverside, Ill., a Chicago suburb, on March 19, 1943...

Officers surround the body of Frank Nitti, gang leader and chief of the Capone syndicate, found near a railroad embankment in Riverside, Ill., a Chica...

This is a general view of the landmark building of old Public Market, which is kept as a museum by the Daughters of the Confederacy, in Charleston, S....

A horse-drawn carriage pulls up in front of the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, S.C., March 9, 1943. Charleston's theater, the first theater build...

Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson and Ronald Coleman pose at the Annual Academy Awards banquet at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, in Los Angeles, Ca....

Broadway theater actress Tallulah Bankhead smiles as she autographs a copy of the book

German mountaineers are seen on an observation patrol in the Caucasus Mountains, in the southwestern Soviet Union, February 1943, during the Battle fo...

Life magazine photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White wears high-altitude flying gear in front of an Allied Flying Fortress airplane during a World War...

A U.S. submarine, with five victory flags flying to indicate the number of enemy ships sunk, returns to port in San Francisco, Ca., after an extensive...

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Musical composer Jerome Kern is shown at work in his Beverly Hills home, Ca., Jan. 16, 1943. Kern writes most of his music at this card table, includ...

Jerome Kern, musical composer, poses in the living room of his Beverly Hills home, Ca., on Jan. 16, 1943. (AP Photo)

This nighttime view looking south from Lake Street shows an illuminated State Street in the downtown district of Chicago's Loop, which is not affected...

Actress-comedian Martha Raye entertains servicemen of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force on a makeshift stage on the edge of the Sahara Desert in North Afri...

Japanese-Americans fighting with Allies in Italy open Christmas packages sent from home at a bivouac behind the lines in 1943 during World War II. (A...

Actress Judy Garland and her husband David Rose, who currently serves as a corporal in the U.S. Army Air Forces, are seen at a party in January 1943 i...

A French machine gunner, standing in a hole in the ground, is on the look-out for German patrol movements, following a mortar bombardment, at an unkno...

Two German Nazi SS soldiers admire the Cathedral in Pisa with the famed Leaning Tower in the foreground, in 1943, during the German occupation of Ital...

Jennifer Jones is shown in Hollywood, Ca., in 1943. (AP Photo)

Actress Jennifer Jones is shown as Bernadette in the 1943 movie

Bronko Nagurski, football player with the Chicago Bears, is shown in 1943. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marine Corp. Captain Joe Foss receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Franklin D. Roosevelt in this 1943 photo, as his mother, l...

Seafires are seen on the deck of a carrier, foreground, whilst two battleships and another aircraft carrier follow, making up part of the Royal Navy f...

American soldiers look up from a landing barge during their amphibious invasion at Oran, Algeria, North Africa, on Dec. 7, 1942 during World War II....