France, 1916, World War I Two wounded
British soldiers walk arm-in-arm with a wounded German prisoner (left) towards a
dressing station
France, 1914, World War I A French soldier
stands at the entrance to a trench.
The Atlantic Ocean, 1919, World War I Nine
African-American soldiers, winners of the Croix de Guerre, return home on the
USS Stockholm.
WSaipan, 1944, World War II A soldier smokes
a cigarette during the final days of fighting for control of the
island
Europe, 1944, World War II Sergeant John H.
Parks, of Mill creek, Indiana, arrives at a rest area behind the lines after his
outfit is relieved
Algeria, 1943, World War II Turret gunner
Sergeant James M. Abbott pauses before taking off on a bombing
mission
Okinawa, 1945, World War II American Marine
Terry Moore stands in a trench
Changjin Reservoir, 1950, Korean War An
American Marine shelters against the cold during his outfit's
retreat
Naktong River, 1950, Korean War Marine
Captain Francis "Ike" Fenton is told that his company is almost out of
ammunition as they try to hold off a heavy counter-attack by North Korean
forces
Hill 303, 1950, Korean War Army Corporal Roy
Day Jr. survived a massacre of 26 Americans by playing
dead.
Vietnam, 1965 Lance Corporal James Farley,
helicopter crew chief, puts on his helmet aboard Yankee Papa
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Near the DMZ, 1966, Vietnam War Soldiers
wait apprehensively, uncertain of what will happen next
Hue, 1968, Vietnam War A soldier rests in a
jungle clearing.
Vietnam, 1966 A Marine patrols with his
squad near the DMZ
Northern Ireland, 1973 A British soldier
stands behind a Plexiglas shield
Falkland Islands, 1984 A British soldier
stands guard near San Carlos
Arabian Peninsula, 1991, Gulf War A female
Gulf War soldier gets out of a transport
Ramadi, 2006, Iraq War Marine Lance Corporal
Jeff Ortiz, 20, displays his good-luck talismans
Baghdad, 2003, Iraq War Sergeant Ronald
Buxton looks through the glass of a humvee that had been hit by a roadside bomb
a few weeks earlier, killing his lieutenant
Southern Iraq, 2003, Iraq War British Royal
Marine George Summers learns that a comrade has been killed in
action.
Ft. Riley, Kansas, 2004, Iraq War Sergeant
First Class Joseph Mosner was injured in Khalidya by a roadside
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