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Artistic director and choreographer George Balanchine, right, kisses his bride, ballet dancer Elizabeth Maria Tallchief, as he holds their marriage li...

A few gutted buildings rise from the rubble of Hiroshima, Japan, a year after the nuclear attack that leveled the city, Aug. 3, 1946. (AP Photo)

A line of African American voters, over two blocks long, await their chance to get to the polls before 8 o'clock, July 17, 1946, in gubernatorial cand...

Two members of the Australian occupation forces get their first view of the shattered city of Hiroshima, April 3, 1946, from the balcony of one of the...

Discussions get underway on the French loan meeting at the Treasury Dept. in Wash. D.C., March 27, 1946. Clockwise around the table are: Arthur Paul...

Britain's former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, bareheaded and waving his hat, sits in the rear of his car on Broadway, New York, March 15, 1946. C...

Statues lie broken at the Zwinger art galleries in central Dresden, March 12, 1946, slightly more than a year after the Allied firebombing which cause...

The inner courtyard lies in ruins at the Zwinger art galleries in central Dresden, March 12, 1946, slightly more than a year after the Allied firebomb...

The Hofkirche, one of the oldest and largest cathedrals in Dresden, is under reconstruction March 12, 1946, slightly more than a year after the Allied...

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Levees around New Orleans keep the Mississippi River from spilling over into the surrounding neighborhoods, seen Feb. 7, 1946. (AP Photo/Bill Allen)

Mao Tse-tung, second from right, talks with Associated Press correspondent John Roderick, left, in Yenan, China, as they await a flight carrying commu...

German refugee children Gerda and Margit are shown in the Crocodile camp in Denmark, 1946, after World War II. (AP Photo/POLFOTO)

A Chinese family stack bags of wheat on their river-boat, after recieving UNRRA supplies from the liberty ship 'Chung Shan'. December 28, 1945, Shangh...

Mardi Gras revelers gather to cheer King Rex as he makes his way on a float through Canal Street in New Orleans La., Dec. 24,1945. The monarch will pa...

A crowd of more than 50,000 attending a youth rally, some armed with bamboo poles with spikes attached, react to a speech by Indonesian President Soka...

A Japanese soldier is greeted by his wife and child at a railway station, in Japan, Nov. 8, 1945, after being released by the Japanese Imperial army....

Carmel Snow, left, editor of Harper's Bazaar, chats with Elsa Maxwell, who is doing a magazine article on the Maggie Teyte concert at Town Hall, Nov....

Sound effects man William Verdier kisses his hand to produce the sound of a kiss for radio audiences, Oct. 23, 1945. (AP Photo)

William Verdier simulates the sound of a fist fight by slapping his fist into a piece of rubber, Oct. 23, 1945. (AP Photo)

This was the scene at the Palace of Justice in Nuernberg, Germany, September 30, 1946. The judgement was given by the International Military Tribunal...

Builders work to complete the first of six Swedish-made prefabricated timber houses, at Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, Oct. 16, 1945, in an effort to...

Japanese sailors are evacuated by Britain's Royal Navy from Singapore, in October 1945, headed for a prisoner of war camp. Japanese forces in south ea...

Bombed out shopkeepers sell goods on the sidewalks in Nagasaki in the Ginza district, a district comparable to New York's Fifth Avenue, Sept. 30, 1945...

AP photographer Joe Rosenthal, seen Sept. 28, 1945, holds a wood carving depicting his famous photo of the flag raising at Iwo Jima. (AP Photo)

A Japanese man stands outside his makeshift lean-to, Sept. 20, 1945, a few weeks after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. (AP Photo)

Detectives guard William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw, unseen, in a closed in car, with blinds drawn, as he was taken to the Old Bailey, London, for his trial...

People queue up outside the Old Bailey, London, for the trial of William Joyce , Lord Haw Haw, who is being tried for treason, Sept. 17, 1945. Joyce w...

War Correspondent Mac R. Johnson of the New York Herald Tribune, left, interviews in Yokohama, Japan, released Prisoners of War, left to right, Pfc....

All that is left of the Mitsubishi weapons factory is a sagging, skeletal hulk, seen Sept. 14, 1945, over a month after atomic attack of August 9. Th...

These shacks, seen Sept. 14, 1945, were made from scraps of debris from buildings that were leveled in the aftermath of the atomic bomb that was dropp...

An allied correspondent stands in a sea of rubble before the shell of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima Sept. 8, 1945, a month aft...

Two people walk on a cleared path through the destruction resulting from the Aug. 6 detonation of the first atomic bomb, Sept. 8, 1945. (AP Photo/U.S...

Only a handful of buildings remain standing amid the wasteland of Hiroshima, Sept. 8, 1945, the Japanese city reduced to rubble following the first at...

The atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, left this mass of twisted steel and this gutted building standing in acres of desolation, Se...

Skeletons of trees dominate the landscape in Hiroshima, Sept. 8, 1945, left in ruins after the world's first atomic bomb attack. Domei News agency re...

An allied correspondent examines the remains of what was once a barber shop in Hiroshima, Sept. 8, 1945, a little over a month after the atomic bomb w...

Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, left, observes President Harry Truman hold up the Japanese surrender papers at the White House, Sept. 7, 1945. Prior...

A man looks through two pillars -- all that remain of a once luxurious house in Hiroshima, Sept. 7, 1945. (AP Photo/ACME/Stanley Troutman)

Aerial views of Hiroshima, Sept. 5, 1945, after the atomic bomb was dropped over this Japanese city on Aug. 6. (AP Photo/Pool/Max Desfor)

Aerial views of Hiroshima, Sept. 5, 1945, after the atomic bomb was dropped over this Japanese city on Aug. 6. (AP Photo/Pool/Max Desfor)

Aerial views of Hiroshima, Sept. 5, 1945, after the atomic bomb was dropped over this Japanese city on Aug. 6. (AP Photo/Pool/Max Desfor)

An entire section of Nagasaki is shown, gutted by one atomic bomb dropped on the city by an American B-29. The remains of a factory can be seen at up...

Britain's Union Jack flag is hoisted during a ceremony on the quayside, in Penang, Malaysia, Sept. 3, 1945. Royal Marines took over the British crown...

U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, left, watches as the foreign minister Manoru Shigemitsu of Japan signs the surrender document aboard the USS Missouri...

U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, left, watches as the foreign minister Manoru Shigemitsu of Japan signs the surrender document aboard the USS Missouri...

This is an aerial view of Hiroshima about a month after the atomic bomb was detonated over this Japanese city. (AP Photo)

Japan's Colonel Takunada, Commandant of the prisoner of war camp in Hong Kong, leaves his trial at the Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong, in September 1945,...

This is a general view of a street in New Orleans, seen through the iron lace-works that is characteristic of the balconies in the Vieux Carre, the

Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division drop into the Newkoelln section of Berlin, Aug. 21, 1945. Ninety-nine men of the division jumped to fulfill...