AP Historical Hard Drive 2003

The U.S. Army ordnance department designates the bandana as the identity for Women Ordnance Workers (WOW) in the war effort, as depicted in this poste...

Hedy Lamarr shakes hands with a soldier at the Hollywood Canteen where the actress appears as a United Service Organizations (USO) volunteer on Nov. 1...

Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, who defeated a Japanese armada at Guadalcanal as commander of the Solomon Island campaign, is seen in this undated pho...

The new De Havilland Mosquito, a medium reconnaissance bomber of the British Royal Air Force, is seen in flight on October 29, 1942, during World War...

Actor Errol Flynn is flanked by his attorneys Robert E. Ford, left, and Jerry Giesler, right, as he arrives at the Los Angeles, Calif., Hall of Justic...

Chorus girls snappily load scrap metal onto a truck at one of the theaters at Radio City in New York, October 14, 1942. About 30,000 pounds of scrap m...

The U.S. Supreme Court, reduced to eight men due to the recent resignation of James F. Byrnes, is seen gathered at the White House, in Washington, Oct...

Aviatrix Nancy Harkness Love, director of the Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), and Col. Robert H. Baker, commanding officer, inspect the first...

Rows of cars line the curb as a result of free parking over Labor Day weekend in New York City, Sept. 6, 1942. (AP Photo)

A British Royal Air Force four-engine bomber of the type Lancaster is seen in flight over England, on September 6, 1942, during World War II. (AP Phot...

This view shows the Labor Day weekend traffic of pedestrians strolling on Fifth Avenue at 41st Street in New York City, Sept. 6, 1942. (AP Photo)

Visitors atop the R.C.A Building get a bird's eye view of Manhattan on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 6, 1942. The tall building in background is the Chrys...

U.S. Marines have their rifles ready as they search for Japanese snipers in a palm grove during mopping-up operations at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands,...

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello entertain at the United Service Organizations (USO) recreation center at the Stage Door Canteen in New York City, Aug. 28,...

Movie personalities, from left, Greer Garson, Ronald Coleman, Irene Dunn, Hedy Lamarr, Joan Leslie, Virginia Gilmore and Lynn Bari are given a send-of...

Looking southwards from the Board of Trade Building, this view shows the city of Chicago during a 30-minute blackout test, on August 12, 1942, in Worl...

Engineering test pilot Charles L. Morris is at the controls of the Vought-Sikorsky experimental helicopter, equipped with floats, as it hovers motionl...

Japanese soldiers killed while manning a mortar on the beach are shown partially buried in the sand at Guadalcanal on the Solomon Islands following at...

The harbor and city of Honolulu, Hawaii, is seen in this aerial photograph, on July 30, 1942. (AP Photo)

Supported by tanks and under the cover of a smoke screen, Scottish guards charge into action on the Egyptian desert front at El Alamein, on July 28, 1...

Japanese family life is preserved even at mealtime in the large mess halls of this war relocation center, as young and old gather around the table, at...

Movie actresses Bonita Granville, left, and Gloria de Haven, right, join actor Jackie Cooper at the opening of the Hollywood Casino in Hollywood, Ca.,...

A U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang fighter plane is seen at an unknown airstrip, in July 1942, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Polish soldiers are seen during military training at an unknown location in the Soviet Union, on June 25, 1942. Many of the refugee soldiers of the Po...

Searching for the projectile's fragments, Lt. Col. Porter T. Gregory reaches into the water that fills the impact crater of a Japanese missile, near S...

Led by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, rear center, thousands of people drop to their knees and pray for an Allied victory, as they are gathered at...

A float depicting Hitler as the Axis War Monster, with bodies of victims strewn at the base of the monster, passes the reviewing stand on Fifth Avenue...

Britain's King George VI shakes hands with American actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, June 10, 1942, during a visit to the H...

Actress Myrna Loy dines with producer David O. Selznick in a Hollywood restaurant, Ca., June 8, 1942. Loy wears a V-neckline dress with a diamond lil...

An artillery detachment of the Free French forces, fighting in alliance with the British troops in the Libyan Desert, is seen as they fire their heavy...

The ferris wheel and parachute jump at Steeplechase Park at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., are shown on opening day on May 31, 1942. The park is usi...

Steeplechase Park at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., is shown on opening day for the season on May 31, 1942. The park is using 2 per cent of its norm...

Air Marshal Arthur T. Harris, commander in chief of the British Royal Air Force bomber command, is pictured in his office in London, May 29, 1942. Ha...

Women employees pack bullets into machine gun belts at an undisclosed army ordinance department arsenal in the United States on May 27, 1942 during Wo...

Actor Lew Ayres, right front, is shown with other inductees in the U.S. Army's non-combat service as they report in Portland, Ore., May 18, 1942 durin...

The first collection of utility dresses for women, designed by Norman Hartnell, are shown on May 14, 1942, at the Berkertex showrooms in Blenheim Stre...

A gun-coupled camera aboard a British RAF Spitfire plane made this record of a German plane ot the type Focke Wulf Fw 190 getting shot down, in May 1...

Actress Joan Blondell is surrounded by her actress-friends as they put a Victory Button on her jacket, on April 29, 1942, in Washington, D.C. From le...

Overhead lights in this game area at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., are dimmed by large black shields in compliance with a dim-out on April 28, 1942....

This general view shows a fish market in Tokyo, Japan, April 24, 1942. (AP Photo)

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, shakes hands with officers of the Grenadier Guards, during her 16th birthday parade at Windsor...

Perched high on a pile of baggage and with a military policeman watching, a little Japanese boy is awaiting the return of his parents, April 6, 1942,...

Hollwood actor Lew Ayres, who has signed up for service in the Medical Corps as a noncombatant, is shown in his dormitory for World War II conscientio...

Film director and dance choreographer Busby Berkeley, 45, and his wife Claire James, 22, return by airplane to Hollywood, Ca., March 31, 1942, from La...

This building, being speedily assembled, will house 100 Japanese American carpenters, painters and electricians who will aid in the construction of th...

American theatrical producer and theater owner Lee Shubert is pictured in his office at Shubert Theater in New York, on March 11, 1942. (AP Photo)

Smoke rises over Singapore during a Japanese air attack before the stronghold fell to the Japanese in World War II, March 8, 1942. (AP Photo)

Debris fills Broad Street in Lubeck after the British Royal Air Force (RAF) raid on this German Baltic port the night of March 28, 1942 during World W...

A Soviet army tractor pulls a sled with equipment and a large gun, as members of the artillery crew walk behind, underway to the forward frontlines on...

Gary Cooper, left, Joan Fontaine, Mary Astor and Donald Crisp, in army uniform, pose backstage at the 1941 Academy Awards presented at the Biltmore Ho...