Low flying C-47 transport planes roar overhead as they carry supplies to the besieged American Forces battling the Germans at Bastogne, during the enemy breakthrough on January 6,1945 in Belgium. In the distance, smoke rises from wrecked German equipment, while in the foreground, American tanks move up to support the infantry in the fighting. (Photo by AP Photo)





Mrs. W. R. New is shown with her electric ice box, electric stove and electric water heater in Norris, Tenn., on March 29, 1938. Mrs. New's husband works for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). (Photo by Charles Gorry/AP Photo)





British army tanks at Aldershot military base in Hampshire, 12th April 1930. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)





HMS Prince of Wales, a King George V class 35,000 tonne battleship is launched in front of vast crowds, by Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, unseen, on the River Mersey at Birkenhead, England, on May 3, 1939. 40,000 people cheered as she slipped into the water after a faultless launch. She is to be the world’s fastest battleship, with a speed of over 30 knots. Her horse power and speed are confidential and no figures are being issued. She carried ten fourteen inch guns in three turrets and a secondary armament of sixteen 5-¼ inch guns. (Photo by AP Photo/Staff/Puttnam)





People talk through the railings to sailors who are guarding Hyde Park, London, May 4, 1926, after it had been closed to the public. Hyde Park has been turned into a stronghold, guarded by police, soldiers and sailors, where food and munitions are being massed. (Photo by AP Photo)





Wounded Turkish soldiers and refugees are tended on a barge by Russians, after the fall of Trabzona to the Russian Army, 18th April 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)





Workers at the Lyons factory at Cadby Hall putting the crosses on a million buns in preparation for Easter, 13th April 1927. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Major General Henry Twaddle of the 95th Infantry division of the US 9th Army and the French Commandant take the salute at a march-past of the 4,000 liberated French officers, 13th April 1945. They had been imprisoned for five years in a prison camp at Soest. (Photo by Fred Ramage/Keystone/Getty Images)





A German who fought against the allies at Medjez-El-Bab appears to be in a despondent mood (above) following his capture by allied forces in Tunisia, May 15, 1943. (Photo by AP Photo)





Historic York Victim of Nazi Raid, April 30, 1942. The railway station after the raid. (Photo by AP Photo)





Firemen ignore seated demonstrators on a Birmingham, Ala. sidewalk, May 3, 1963, and turn their water hoses across the street to disperse a jeering crowd of blacks. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this June 1, 1975 picture, President Gerald Ford lands on his hands after slipping and falling on a wet ramp, while disembarking from Air Force One in Salzburg, Austria. A military aide, grabs the president to help break the fall. The president's wife, Betty, is at left. (Photo by Peter Bregg/AP Photo)





Lynn Montgomery of Seattle, heads for the water after his hydro flipped and sailed into the air twice, then disintegrated when it smashed back into the water on Sunday, June 2, 1969 in the Green Lake Memorial Inboard Regatta races at Seattle. As Montgomery was thrown out head-over-heels and spun around side to side he emerged with a broken arm. (Photo by Bob Carver/AP Photo)





Smoke rises from a collision between the U.S. container ship Sea Witch and the ESSO Brussels, in New York harbor near the Verrazano bridge in New York, June 2, 1973. The Sea Witch continues to smolder and list more than 20 degrees as fireboats and tugs continue emergency operations. (Photo by AP Photo)





All the drugery of dishwashing in this three-times -a day task, which comes to the house wife who does her own house work, has been eliminated by the new dish washer shown in the photograph on April 25, 1921. It is the invention of a Cincinnati school teacher, who sought to make things a bit more pleasant for his wife. Incedently, his idea was worth 12,00 to him, for a manufacturing concern thought so much of the “dish-washer” they purchased the rights and will seek to add a little joy to thousands of other housewives. With the aid of only hot water, dishes placed in a wire rack and set into the drum are made clean and spotless in two minutes. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)