AP Historical Hard Drive 2004

Members of Britain's Home Guard parade near one of London's docks, which they guard ceaselessly day and night, August 6, 1940. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth)

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill is cheered by shipyard workers after a short speech at a shipyard in north east England, Aug. 1, 1940. Chur...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill tries a Tommy gun during a visit to north-east England, Aug. 1, 1940, to inspect coastal fortifications and...

A member of the Britain's Home Guard patrols while on duty at a London railway terminus, as a train pulls out, July 30, 1940. Members of the Home Guar...

Under the leadership of a former sergeant-major, the Doncaster

Two small girls hold their dolls while waving goodbye to relatives as they are evacuated to the west country, at a London station to escape the Nazi b...

Schoolchildren board a special train at a London station as they are evacuated to the west country to escape the Nazi bombing, June 13, 1940. All the...

Children, some with their mothers, from the Hugh Myddleton School, Clerkenwell, London, walk to the station in order to be evacuated to the west count...

Chippewa Chief Kayboysawoun and three of his tribesmen paddle a birch bark canoe to the shore of Burntside Lake near Ely, Minn., to receive an officia...

Pablo Abeyta, 75, former governor of the Isleta Indian Pueblo and president of the All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC), speaks at the opening of the sout...

Two Tesuque Eagle Dancers perform during dedication ceremonies of a reconstructed community council room, or Kiva, at the ruins of Kuaua Pueblo, Coron...

The white chalk cliffs of the Seven Sisters, on the Sussex coast between Seaford and Eastbourne, May 23, 1940. The chalk cliffs, marking the point whe...

Refugees from the Low Countries are shown sleeping between seats of a theater in London, England, as they await permanent homes somewhere in England,...

A sad and strained Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg arrives in France in a small car, May 13, 1940, after being driven from her country by the Ge...

Owney Madden, left, owner of the Cotton Club during prohibition, is escorted by an unidentified detective as they leave police headquarters for questi...

E.K. Gaylord, publisher of The Daily Oklahoman, poses during a board of directors' meeting of the Associated Press at the AP building in New York City...

Actors Randolph Scott, left, and Cary Grant are shown at the Armstrong-Garcia fight in Los Angeles, Ca., March 1, 1940. (AP Photo)

A British Army Corporal serving with the British Expeditionary Force is welcomed home by his wife and daughter, in London, England, Feb. 3, 1940. (AP...

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt does the honors cutting a huge cake at the President's birthday call celebration at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, Janu...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill tries a Tommy gun during a visit to north-east England, Aug. 1, 1940, to inspect coastal fortifications and...

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, where the prime meridian passes through the building, in Greenwich, England, is shown in 1940. At left is the Wolfe...

Film comedian Harold Lloyd is enshrining his famous hornrimmed spectacles in cement during a ceremony at the nearly completed Hawaii Theater on Hollyw...

Wartime goods and supplies are unloaded from barges and boats in the London docks, on the River Thames, Nov. 9, 1939. (AP Photo/Robert Rider-Rider)

Members of the British War Cabinet pose for a group shot before a meeting in London, England, Nov. 8, 1939. Left to right standing are Sir John Anders...

People look at a German HE111 reconnaissance plane which crashed on a hillside, near Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, Oct. 28, 1939. This is the fi...

This general view, looking eastward, shows the emergency gate control towers and main control gate shafts for diversion tunnels, foreground, of the Fo...

Victorious German U Boat crew members line up for roll call on the narrow deck of their submarine after their return home from enemy waters during Wor...

This aerial view of Washington, D.C., on Sept. 16, 1939, shows the building which houses the State Department of the United States government, right,...

German tank units enter a village, as part of the Nazi lightning invasion, or Blitzkrieg, of Poland, Sept. 6, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence Lord Chatfield, left, and Anthony Eden, the Dominions Secretary, leave 10 Downing Street, London,...

Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill leaves his home in London to travel to the Admiralty, Sept. 3, 1939. Behind is Churchill's sec...

A policeman, wearing a tin hat and gas mask over his shoulder, walks past the heavily sand-bagged building of The Associated Press, in Tudor Street, L...

Schoolchildren board a train at Ealing Broadway Station, West London, England, as they are evacuated from London, in preparation for war on Germany, S...

An unidentified woman mourns her sister killed by German machine-gun fire while she was picking potatoes in a field outside Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939...

German and Russian officers salute the Nazi swastika flag during a parade in Brest-Litovsk celebrating a border demarcation in Poland in Sept. 1939, f...

Young King Faisal II of Iraq, plays on the beach whilst on holiday at Aley, Lebanon, August 30, 1939. (AP Photo)

Young King Faisal II of Iraq poses in the garden whilst on holiday in Aley, Lebanon, August 30, 1939. (AP Photo)

Young King Faisal II of Iraq, on holiday in Aley, Lebanon, plays in his toy car, August 30, 1939. (AP Photo)

Winston Churchill, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, is shown on Aug. 23, 1939. (AP Photo)

Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, far right, General Secretary of the Communist Party Josef Stalin, second from ri...

Marcel Pilet-Golatz, president of the Swiss Confederation of the Bundesrat, federal Council of Switzerland for the 1940 period, is shown on Aug. 12, 1...

Gloria Vanderbilt, 15-year-old American heiress, left, chats with Canadian singer/actress Deanna Durbin during a luncheon at the studio commisary in H...

Heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey, left, and his wife, Hannah, are shown at Ben Marden's Riviera nightclub in New York City, June 25, 1939. (AP Photo)

British author P.G. Wodehouse leaves Oxford University after receiving his honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, June 21, 1939. (AP Photo/Sidney Beadel)

British author P.G. Wodehouse, right, talks to scholar Sir Herbert Grierson after receiving his honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at Oxford University...

Britain's King George VI is welcomed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as they board the presidential yacht Potomac at Washington Navy Yard for...

King George VI, center, stands in reverence before the grave of the United States' first president, George Washington, shortly after laying a wreath t...

This aerial view shows the nation's Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 1939. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)

A hangman's noose dangling from an automobile driven by a hooded Ku Klux Klan member is among the grim warnings to blacks to stay away from the voting...

A dummy is hanging from a lamp post, in an attempt to intimidate blacks and keep them away from the voting polls in the municipal primary election in...