A Lone Soldier, Vietnam by David Hume Kennerly. 1972 Pulitzer Prize.
A lone soldier traversing a blown-away hillside in Vietnam near the A Shau Valley. This photo was cited by the Pulitzer committe as an example of Kennerly’s portfolio of 14 photos submitted by UPI editors for the award, ‘That shows the loneliness and desolation of war.’
The Pearl Harbour Attack
Just before 8 on the morning of December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
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World War II - St. Paul’s Cathedral
Nuremberg, 1935.
447th Squadron B-25s fly past erupting Vesuvius, 1944. Thanks to Melisaki
Operation Ivy, first H-Bomb, originally released in Time Magazine, 1952
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