AP Historical Hard Drive 2005

Author Dorothy Parker is shown on Aug. 8, 1944. (AP Photo)

A Catholic Mass is celebrated in a stable in Cherbourg, France, June 28, 1944, as American soldiers take time out from battle. (AP Photo)

A huge cloud rises from a direct hit on Germany's last battleship, the Tirpitz, by Baracuda bombers of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm in Altenfjord, N...

The choir on Guadalcanal Island sings on Christmas Day, 1943. Starting at midnight, there were 18 separate services for Catholics, Protestants, and b...

This Atllantic Coast Line train derailed near Buie, N.C., Dec. 16, 1943, and a few minutes later a northbound train from the same line crashed into it...

This is the inside of one car of the Atlantic Coast Line train which was wrecked in a derailment and collision with another Atlantic Coast Line train...

Admiral Harold R. Stark, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, visits the flagship of the U.S. Task Force serving with Britain's Royal Navy Home F...

The crew of Britain's HMS Trident, a T-class submarine with the Royal Navy, pose with a Jolly Roger flag of success on their return from a successful...

German prisoners of war, survivors from the Scharnhorst, wear blindfolds and merchant seaman's rescue kit as they disembark at a British port in Decem...

Capt. Clark Gable walks to an automobile after leaving his train in Pasadena, Calif., Nov. 1, 1943, with a 50,000 foot film record of the European air...

Soviet President Josef Stalin and Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill salute their national anthems during the presentation of the Sword of Sta...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill waves on his arrival in Valetta, Malta, in November 1943, en route to Cairo for the Sextant Conference. Chu...

Capt. Clark Gable, erstwhile film actor, faced the press in the Pentagon in Washington, Oct. 27, 1943. Gable flew operational missions over Europe in...

German prisoners of war from captured U-boats march to a prison camp carrying their belongings after arriving at a British port in October 1943. (AP P...

Surrendered ships of the Italian Fleet, the battleship Vittorio Veneto, the cruiser Duca D'aosta, background, and the destroyer Velite, left, sail to...

Pablo Neruda, Chilean consul general in Mexico City and celebrated Latin American poet and leftist, is shown at center during a luncheon at the Mexica...

An elderly Sicilian resident welcomes two U.S. soldiers with a pitcher of wine, in Gela, Italy, in July 1943. (AP Photo)

A lighter ship carryies Royal Air Force personnel to the Sicilian shore near Pachino, Italy, in July 1943, during the early stages of Operation Husky,...

Capt. Vincent B. Evans of Henderson, Tex., left, tells a mechanic Shirley Poe about some of the exploits of the famed four-engined bomber

A damaged French destroyer lays in a dry dock at Ferryville, Tunisia, in June 1943, after the harbour, as Axis supply point, was strafed in an Allied...

Mrs. Olivia Dionne holds Mothers Day flowers, given to her by her quintuplet daughters, who stand beside her, in Superior, Wis., May 9, 1943. (AP Phot...

Japan's Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, centre, salutes Japanes troops on his arrival in Manila, the Philippines, May 5, 1943. (AP Photo)

Tank landing craft unload stores and supplies for the 8th Army from a Liberty ship at a harbour in North Africa, in May 1943, following the clearing o...

Delegates to the Anglo-American Conference to help formulate a plan to rescue persecuted people from Nazi Europe include, from left to right: George...

The crew of Britain's HMS Rodney, a Nelson-class battleship of the Royal Navy, fire one of the ship's multiple Pom Pom guns at sea in April 1943. HMS...

British troops arrive on a paddle steamer in service as a supply ship in Malta in April 1943. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

British troops arrive on a paddle steamer in service as a supply ship in Malta in April 1943. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

Britain's Lt. Cmdr. Peter Markham Scott of the Royal Navy, the son of Artic explorer Captain Scott, stands on the bridge of his ship in April 1943. (...

One of Britain's Royal Navy destroyers attacks a German submarine, unseen, with depth charges, in February 1943. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

Britain's Duchess of Kent, Commandant of the W.R.N.S., shakes hands with 'Wren' officers and ratings during a visit to Combined Operations Headquarter...

Britain's Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, tours the harbour at Benghazi, Libya, in February 1943. (AP Photo/...

Dense underbrush surrounding a haunted house is duplicated by stomping on and fondling broom straws close to the microphone, with the script on the fl...

A Greek Caique is used s a minesweeper in the Mediterranean Sea, in Jan. 1943, clearing routes for Allied convoys transporting troops and supplies to...

Pres. Roosevelt shakes hands with former Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, right, in the executive office of the White House, Dec. 4, 1942, cong...

Britain's HMS Wells, a destroyer in the Royal Navy, at sea in Dec. 1942. HMS Wells, which recently conducted convoy escort operations in support of Op...

U.S. troops are seen landing on the beach at Fedala, Morocco, Nov. 27, 1942. (AP Photo)

American soldiers are seen at prayer during a Catholic Mass on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 1942, at Westminster Cathedral. (AP Photo)

Bobbe Sterner, sound effects trainee, gives off the sound of marching feet by bouncing rows of wooden blocks up and down. A Nov. 2, 1942 photo. (AP...

An Allied cruiser escorts a convoy of 500 Anglo-American ships in the Mediterranean Sea, in Nov. 1942, transporting thousands of Allied troops to the...

U.S. Marines kneel in prayer during Catholic Mass celebrated by Father Reardon in Guadalcanal, Oct. 11, 1942. (AP Photo/Pool/ACME)

Albacores of Briatain's Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carry out practice torpedo attacks on HMS Warspite and HMS Illustrious at sea in October 1942. (AP P...

Charge d' affaires of Dominican Republic Porfirio Rubirosa, 33, and French actress Danielle Darrieux, 25, after their marriage in Vichy, France, Sept....

Dominican Charge D' Affaires Porfirio Rubirosa, left, and French actress Danielle Darrieux sign the marriage registry at City Hall in Vichy, France, S...

Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican Charge D'Affaires at Vichy, and his wife, French movie actess Danielle Darrieux, are shown at a reception following their...

A cast of 600 workers of the Weirton Steel Company and a contingent of 240 officers and soldiers fill a 196-foot long stage at Weirton, West Virginia...

Britain's HMS Fury, an F-class destroyer in the Royal Navy, in July 1942. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

Britain's King George VI is piped aboard HMS Norfolk, a Norfolk class cruiser in the Royal Navy, in June 1942. HMS Norfolk, currently serving in the H...

Britain's HMS Newark, a destroyer in the Royal Navy, at sea in June 1942. HMS Newark is former USS Ringold, one of 50 U.S. Lend Lease destroyers given...

British troops unload ammunition for the island's anit-aircraft guns from lighters into waiting trucks in the harbour, Malta, May 10, 1942, delivered...

Buddy Baer knocks Joe Louis through the ropes, May 1941. (AP Photo)