AP Historical Hard Drive 2003

The body of a German pilot is lowered from the roof of a building, where he landed when his parachute failed to open, after his plane was shot down ov...

Fulgencio Batista, former chief of staff of the Cuban army and new president-elect of Cuba, is seen at his office in Havana, on July 25, 1940. (AP Pho...

Allied troops wait on the beach of Dunkirk for the rescue ships to take them to England, on June 4, 1940. Over three houndred thousand soldiers from B...

A formation of German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers are flying over an unknown location, in this May 29, 1940 photo. (AP Photo)

Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth fortune, arrives in San Francisco, Ca., via the Clipper from Honolulu, on May 18, 1940. (AP Photo)

A family of migrant farm laborers are shown at their temporary home near a vegetable packing center near Lake Okeechobee, Fla., on April 15, 1940. (A...

Members of the New York Rangers are posing with the Stanley Cup, which they won by defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in Toronto, on April 13, 1940...

A long distance reconnaissance and bomber plane of the German Luftwaffe of the type He 111, built by the Heinkel works, sits at an unknown airfield in...

This view shows the 42nd Street subway entrance and store fronts in New York City on April 2, 1940. (AP Photo)

Described by company officials as the greatest delivery in aviation history, these camouflaged Lockheed Hudson bombers wait for their flight to Great...

Racehorse trainer Tom Smith is shown with thoroughbred Seabiscuit on March 10, 1940. (AP Photo)

Jockey Johnny

A German plane of the type Ju 88, the most modern horizontal and dive bomber of the German Luftwaffe built by the Junkers works, is seen in flight ove...

Stage and screen actor Dean Jagger is shown in Hollywood, Ca., in March 1940. (AP Photo)

A crowd of British citizens gathers around the wreckage of a German bomber, after it was brought down by British RAF fighters, in March 1940, at an un...

Victor Saville, producer of the film

Judy Garland receives a kiss from Mickey Rooney as she is given a special award Oscar for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the...

Vivien Leigh, center, is shown with her Oscar, presented by Spencer Tracy, left, and Thomas Mitchell, second from right, and Fay Bainter at the Annual...

Actress Ruth Chatterton, returning to Broadway after a 15-year absence, is shown in her dressing room with messages of congratulations for opening nig...

Tibet Buddhism's 14th Dalai Lama, born Lhamo Dhondrub on July 6, 1935, is shown wearing royal robes in a golden palanquin at his enthronment as the sp...

Actor Mickey Rooney, left, and actress Betty Davis are presented crowns after being named King and Queen of the Movies by readers of 55 newspapers in...

Senators, from left, Charles McNary, R-Ore., Arthur H. Vandenberg, R-Mich., Warren R. Austin, R-Vt., and Robert A. Taft, R-Ohio, look over President R...

Newspaper columnist Walter Winchell, left, and actor/singer Al Jolson, right, share a moment as they meet at a Miami Beach hotel, on January 4, 1940....

Co-stars Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan are shown in the 1940 movie

Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman are shown in a scene from the 1940 movie

Two German Dornier 217 planes pass over the burning bombing targets of the Breckton Gas Works at Silvertown, a suburb in the southeast of London, duri...

With the London Tower Bridge in the background, a Royal Air Force barrage balloon flies overhead for protection against low-flying German planes, in t...

Actress and dancer, Vera Zorina, is shown in this 1940 photo. Zorina's career embraced classical ballet with such legendary troupes as the Ballets Ru...

Prisoners of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, equipped with hoes, march together to work on the cotton fields on the Giant Cotton Plantation in Par...

Jerome Frank (left) chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commissison, and William McChesney Martin Jr. president of the New York Stock Exchange smi...

Actresses Joy Hodges, left, and Arleen Whelan, rear, show their admiration for the engagement ring on co-star Jane Wyman's finger, given to her by her...

Thoroughbred racehorse Man O'War is shown at age 22 at Faraway Farm near Lexington, Ky., on Nov. 25, 1939. Man O'War won 20 of 21 starts before being...

Racehorse Man O'War grazes in his private pasture at Faraway Farm near Lexington, Ky., Nov. 25, 1939. The 22-year-old thoroughbred, retired to stud i...

This is a general view into the main assembly hall of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation plant at Burbank, Calif., on November 24, 1939. It shows some...

This view shows the western front along Sixth Avenue of the nearly completed Rockefeller Center in New York, on November 11, 1939. The commercial and...

Owen D. Hitefield, preacher and labor organizer, addresses a meeting of sharecroppers in their camp near Popular Bluff, Mo., Nov. 9, 1939. They congr...

Rev. H.S. Bigelow looks over the first rough draft of his new old-age pension plan at his desk in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Nov. 8, 1939. His pension plan...

Rev. H.S. Bigelow, author of Bigelow Pension Plan, is shown on Nov. 7, 1939. (AP Photo)

University of Iowa star halfback Nile Kinnick practices in Iowa City, Iowa Nov. 2, 1939. The Iowa football legend and Heisman Trophy winner plunged...

John D. Rockefeller Jr., hammers the last rivet into the steel beam of the United States Rubber Building, the 14th original and final building for New...

John D. Rockefeller Jr., drives the last rivet into the steel beam of the United States Rubber Building, the 14th original and final building of New Y...

A television camera covers the season's opener between Fordham University and Waynesburg College during National Broadcasting Company's first telecast...

Jackie Robinson is seen during football training at University of California campus in Westwood, Calif., on September 20, 1939. Robinson, who transfe...

On September 17, 1939, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Courageous is hit by a torpedo from the German submarine U29 and sinks within 20 minutes, s...

Bystanders render the Nazi salute as German cavalry troops on horseback enter Lodz, Poland, Sept. 9, 1939 . (AP Photo)

German street gunners crouch behind an anti-tank gun during the German sweep at Bydgoszyz, toward Warsaw, Poland, in Sept. 1939. Three converging Ger...

German advance guards and scouts are shown in a Polish villa that has been under fire during the Nazi blitzkrieg and occupation of Poland, Sept. 1939....

Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with their daughters Princesses Elizabeth, left, and Margaret Rose, join the boys at their camp in the gr...

The eight-foot wide townhouse, No. 8 1/2, on Bedford Street in New York's Greenwich Village is shown in Aug. 1939. (AP Photo)

A Japanese tank crew takes a time-out to cool off, following their drive against Soviet Red Army positions, near Nomonhan, at the border of Russia, Mo...