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A British destroyer, left, escorts a convoy, at sea, in May 1942. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

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Navy Lieutenant Edward H. O'Hare, of St. Louis, U.S. Naval Air Corps pilot, talks during a news conference at Washington, D.C., April 20, 1942. Lieut...

Navy Lieutenant Edward O'Hare, WWII fighter pilot who shot down six Japanese planes in the South Pacific, is shown in San Francisco, Ca., April 16, 19...

Navy Lieutenant Edward O'Hare, left, who shot down six Japanese planes during WWII operation off the Gilbert Islands, is reunited with his wife, the f...

A Catholic priest celebrates Mass at the open air Chapel of Lourdes in an Army hospital in Bataan, Philippines, April 11, 1942. (AP Photo)

Five thousand soldiers of a provisional field artillery brigade form into a huge eagle on the parade ground at Fort Bragg, N.C., April 6, 1942 as a lo...

Navy Lieutenant Edward O'Hare, of St. Louis, is shown in April 1942, in the cockpit of the plane in which he shot down six Japanese heavy bombers, par...

A young artist tries to capture the old St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans on canvas, March 3, 1942. (AP Photo)

Kirby Higbe of the Brooklyn Dodgers limbers up during spring training exercises in Havana, Cuba, March 1, 1942. (AP Photo)

Officer and men of HMS Talisman, a Triton class submarine in the Royal Navy, stand with the chips Jolly Roger, recording the vessel's recent successes...

Brooklyn Dodgers' manager Leo Durocher talks to newcomers to his team, Feb. 19, 1942, back row from left: Chet Kehn, Emile Lochbaum, Tommy Tatum, Les...

Song writer Cole Porter gives out gifts to Cpl. Charles R. New of Pennsylvania, during a party at the Soldiers & Sailors Club in New York, Feb. 1, 194...

Employees of a Los Angeles, Calif., firm kneel in prayer to ask for

Heavyweight boxer Buddy Baer poses Jan. 2, 1942, where he is training for his fight with Joe Louis, at Lakewood, N.J. (AP Photo)

Buddy Baer strikes a fighting pose in Lakewood, N.J., Jan. 2, 1942. He is preparing for his bout with Joe Louis. (AP Photo)

Swimmers line the shoreline at a beach identified as playa Caletilla, in Acapulco, Mexico, 1942. (AP Photo)

The RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York City, is shown in Dec. 1941. The building, at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, was completed in 1940 and is 85...

Minesweeping trawlers patrol the English Channel, in December 1941, responsible for keeping 1,700 miles of British coast clear for shipping. (AP Phot...

Britain's HMS King George V, a King Geroge V class battleship in the Royal Navy, at sea in Novermber 1941. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

Britain's HMS Nelson, a Nelson class battleship of the Royal Navy, sits low in the Mediterranean Sea, in October 1941, after being hit by a torpedo fr...

The RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in mid Manhattan has a searchlight during the defense bond sale demonstration, Sept. 4, 1941. (AP Photo/Matt Z...

Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali and his life partner Gala appear at a party they gave in Del Monte, Calif., for the benefit of refugee artists...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives a

British and American sailors attend a church service on board HMS Prince of Wales, a King George V class battleship in Britain's Royal Navy, unseen, a...

Britain's HMS Suffolk, a cruiser in the Royal Navy, patrols near Arctic drift ice, background, in the Atlantic Ocean in July 1941. The crew wear thick...

Britain's Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville addresses the ship's company of HMS Sheffield, on their return from operations in the Atlantic Ocean in Ju...

Buddy Baer poses in the ring, May 23, 1941. (AP Photo/Robert Clover)

A procession of cars, each sent by a different London borough and each carrying a large

A Swordfish of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm flies past HMS Renown, a battlecruiser in Britain's Royal Navy, at sea in May 1941. (AP Photo/British Of...

A Swordfish bomber of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm flies over unidentified seas in May 1941. Swordfish bombers, carrying torpedoes, took part in Ope...

Staff in City of london bank work on despite having a gas mask drill, London, England, April 28, 1941. (AP Photo)

Residents survey the severe damage to houses along a street in Belfast, in April 1941, after Germany's first full scale attack on the area. A squadron...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth talks with a dockyard worker during a royal visit to Plymouth, England, March 21, 1941. At right is King George VI. (AP Phot...

Edsel Ford, right, president of the Ford Motor Company, drives the first

Mardi Gras revelers gather at Canal Street as Rex, King of Carnival, makes his way aboard his float through the crowd Feb. 26, 1941, in New Orleans La...

The King and Queen, in regal splendor, are seen at the Mardi Gras carnival's ball grand march Feb. 8, 1941. Her majesty, usually a debutante, wears a...

In one of his rare public appearances as a musician, Professor Albert Einstein, left, plays a violin on Jan. 24, 1941 at Princeton, New Jersey, in a r...

A drawing of author Bob Benchley by artist James Montgomery Flagg. Released Oct. 24, 1941. (AP Photo)

A German Nazi flag flies over the fort at El Agheila, Libya, in 1941, after the town was captured by German forces. (AP Photo)

A Free French sailor stands to attention on board a destroyer of the Free French Navy in December 1940. Many French naval ships sought refuge in Briti...

The crew of a Free French destoryer exhibit the flag of 'Free France' on board the destroyer in December 1940. Many French naval ships sought refuge i...

Royal Navy officers scrutinise an approaching aircraft on the bridge of a British destroyer escorting a merchant convoy, in December 1940. (AP Photo/B...

A huge crater outside the offices of Associated Press in Tudor Street, London, Sept. 26, 1940, after a bomb fell during a Nazi air raid the previous...

Novelist Edna Ferber, Aug. 9, 1940. (AP Photo)

Novelist Edna Ferber, Aug. 9, 1940. (AP Photo)

French people, some of them sobbing, pay homage to those men who died in the battle of France, at the Bordeaux Monument, June 25, 1940. (AP Photo)

A crowd of women, children and soldiers of the German Wehrmacht give the Nazi salute on June 19, 1940, during World War II at an unknown location in G...

France's Gen Charles De Gaulle, right, shakes hands with King Mohammed V, the Sultan of Morocco, at a ceremony at Place de la Concorde, Paris, June 18...

In this photo from a German source, British prisoners of war, captured in the battle for Dunkirk. are transported to a prisoner of war camp, in France...