AP Historical Hard Drive 2004

Ending his 39-year congressional career, Vice President John Garner administers the oath of office to his successor, Henry A. Wallace, on the rostrum...

Gary Cooper, center, is shown in the title role with other cast members in action in France in World War I in a scene in from the 1941 movie

Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, talks to a private in the A.T.S. at a training camp for Combined Operations in Engl...

A British tank travels towards the battle front, where enemy shells are exploding in the distance, in Libya in 1941. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

A German anti-tank artillery crew is shown in position in a street of the Russian industrial city Kharkov in the Ukraine during Nazi occupation, Dec....

Russian prisoners of war captured in the drive on Moscow are packed in open freight cars as they move through snow-covered territory and taken to a pr...

Children and their families, sheltering in a London Underground station from all night Nazi bombing raids, celebrate Christmas with a decorated tree a...

Associated Press staffer Angus M. Thuermer, left, interviews famous British author P. G. Wodehouse, in an internment camp for Allied detainees with th...

British actor Ben Kingsley, right, and actress Sigourney Weaver pose at the premiere of their film,

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Shoppers look for Christmas gifts and other articles, at London's Petticoat Lane market, December 8, 1940. People still came despite several shops, ri...

British comedian and actor George Formby, centre playing his ukulele, entertains people sheltering from the Nazi bombing raids, in the deep undergroun...

A street in Bristol, England, following a raid by over 100 Nazi bombers, Nov. 24, 1940. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth)

Vincent Astor, heir to the fortune of New York real estate magnate John Jacob Astor, and his bride Mary

Britain's Queen Elizabeth visits children and their families in one of London's deep air raid shelters, during a tour of South London, England, Nov.1...

Britain's King George VI is greeted by a delighted bunch of youngsters during a two-day visit to eastern England, in November 1940. (AP Photo/British...

American author Ernest Hemingway is shown with his fiancee, writer and correspondent Martha Gellhorn, in Sun Valley, Idaho, Nov. 1940. The couple is...

Writer and correspondent Martha Gellhorn is shown in this undated photo. (AP Photo)

Idris El Senussi, leader of the free Libyans, chats to Libyan prisoners of war in Egypt in November 1940. Senussi, in exile in Egypt after the Italian...

Libyans kiss the robes of Idris El Senussi, leader of the free Libyans, in Egypt in November 1940. Senussi, in exile in Egypt after the Italian occupa...

Ruins of a church in Bristol, after the city was bombed during the Blitz, November 1940. (AP Photo)

Bristol's shopping centre, showing severe bomb damage, after the Blitz, November 1940. (AP Photo)

Bristol shopping centre after a bombing raid during the Blitz, November 1940. (AP Photo)

Debris from the surrounding buildings is cleared in Cheapside, London, following a Nazi air raid the previous evening, Oct. 17, 1940. The entrance to...

Two American destroyers are seen crossing the Atlantic to join up with the British fleet, as the sun sets, October 17, 1940. (AP Photo)

Dr. E.H. West, right, county health officer and Dr. R.F. Ratliff examine the body of Willie Mae Bragg and pronounced him dead three minutes after the...

RAF Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, who lost his legs in a flying accident in 1931, poses with his Hurricane fighter plane, Oct. 10, 1940. Bader's Cana...

People shelter and sleep on the platform and on the train tracks, in Aldwych Underground station, London, after sirens sounded to warn of Nazi bombing...

Londoners sleep on the platform and on the train tracks at Aldwych Underground station,London, during heavy all night Nazi bombing raids, Oct. 8, 1940...

A party of newly recruited London Defence Volunteers, L.D.V.'s, watch a bus conductor practice with a rifle and bayonet, in England, October 3, 1940....

Occupying German troops shop for familiar tourist souvenirs in October 1940, in Paris, France. The German occupation of Paris, which lasted until 194...

People sleep on the platform of Piccadilly Underground station, London, during all night Nazi bombing raids, Sept. 28, 1940. (AP Photo)

Londoners sleep on stationary escalators in a London Underground station, during Nazi all night bombing raids, Sept. 27, 1940. (AP Photo)

People sleep in Piccadilly Underground station, London, during Nazi bombing raids, Sept. 27, 1940. (AP Photo)

Fire blazes from a block of offices next to The Associated Press building, in Tudor Street, London, shortly after a bomb had fallen during a Nazi air...

Londoners sheltering in a London Underground station from the Nazi bombing raids, play cards through the night to pass the time, Sept. 25, 1940. (AP P...

Children sleep on the platform of a London Underground station, where they are sheltering with their families during the all night Nazi bombing raids,...

Residents of damaged houses in Gidea Park, north London, move their belongings into the street while awaiting removal, following a Nazi air raid, Sept...

Firemen turn their hoses on a shop, near Victoria Station, in London, Sept. 15, 1940. The shop caught fire after a German air raid during which a Dorn...

RAF and ARP personnel examine the wreckage of a German Dornier aircraft brought down, near Victoria Station, in London, Sept. 15, 1940. The aircraft c...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, right, accompanied by officials, inspects the damage caused by German bombs in London's East End, Sept. 9,...

Winner Byron Nelson, left, Thomas Walsh, center, President of Professional Golf Association, and runner-up Sam Snead pose with the PGA Championship cu...

Some of the youngest recruits of Britain's Home Defence Battalion participate in a route march, in England, August 30, 1940. (AP Photo/Robert Rider-Ri...

Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg leaves her hotel, carrying her gas mask, in London, Aug. 30, 1940. The Grand Duchess, in England on a brief visi...

The Klaus family of five, from Mannheim, Germany, is shown being sworn in by Robert Kahal, right, at the General Post Office in New York City, as the...

Pennsylvania Gov. Arthur James, center, is holding a bow and arrow after he is inducted into the tribe of the Seneca Indians, August 24, 1940, in War...

Bread is sold at this bakers, through the remains of the window, whilst repairs are being done on damage caused by a Nazi bombing raid, in London, Aug...

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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, left, Prime Minister William Mackenzie King of Canada, center, Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Lt. Gen. Hugh...

A Cuban worker harnesses up his oxen team for work in the sugar cane fields in Cuba, Aug. 12, 1940. The oxen are used to plow the fields and harvest...