Greatest Military Photos

1. T he 100 G reatest M ilitary P hotographs From Military Times Publishing Company, insert to the 25 Sept 2000 issues of Army/Navy/AF Times Created by Tony Spence Music: Taps for the Fallen Brave

2. No. 100 Robert Capa WWII

3. No. 99 U.S. Navy Archives Pearl Harbor

4. No. 98 Jacob Harris WWII

5. No. 97 Ray Platnick WWII

6. No. 96 David Turnley Operation Desert Storm

7. No. 95 Charles Kerlee WWII

8. No. 94 Christopher Morris USS Stark

9. No. 93 Philip Jones Griffiths Vietnam, 1968

10. No. 92 Christopher Morris Persian Gulf War

11. No. 91 U.S. Army Archives WWII, July 1944

12. No. 90 William Dinwiddle Rough Riders, 1898

13. No. 89 Brad Markel Andrews AFB, 1991

14. No. 88 Philadelphia Public Ledger WWI, Nov 1918

15. No. 87 Adrian Duff WWI, Sep 1918

16. No. 86 Stanley Tretick South Korea

17. No. 85 U.S. Army Signal Corps Lt Gen George S. Patton

18. No. 84 Robert Jakobsen Ca National Guard, 1940

19. No. 83 Wayne Miller WWII, 1944

20. No. 82 U.S. Army Air Force WWII, 1943

21. No. 81 U.S. Army Archives WWII, 1944 Paris, France

22. No. 80 Peter Turnley “ Highway of Doom” Persian Gulf War, 1991

23. No. 79 Hank Walker South Korea, 1950

24. No. 78 U.S. Marine Corps Vietnam

25. No. 77 Steve Elfers Operation Desert Storm

26. No. 76 Steve Elfers Operation Desert Storm

27. No. 75 Bruno Barbey Persion Gulf War

28. No. 74 Alexander Gardner Civil War, 1862

29. No. 73 Jeff Tuttle Operation Desert Shield

30. No. 72 U.S. Army Archives WWII, 1943 Tarawa Atoll

31. No. 71 Alfred Cooperman WWII, 1943

32. No. 70 Rich Mason Persian Gulf War

33. No. 69 W. Eugene Smith Saipan, WWII

34. No. 68 Larry Burrows Vietnam, 1966 Plane is a Douglas A –1 Skyraider

35. No. 67 Larry Burrows Vietnam, 1966

36. No. 66 U.S. Navy Archives Pearl Harbor, Dec 1941

37. No. 65 Corbis–Bettman WWI, 1919

38. No. 64 Sadayuki Mikami Persian Gulf War

39. No. 63 Hulton–Getty Archives Vietnam, 1966

40. No. 62 Corbis–Bettman Saigon, 1975

41. No. 61 Time Life South Korea, 1950

42. No. 60 Fred Ramage D–Day, 1944

43. No. 59 U.S. Navy Archives USS Hornet, 1942 Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo

44. No. 58 Larry Burrows Vietnam, 1966

45. No. 57 U.S. Army Signal Corps Gen Dwight Eisenhower Speaking to Army Airborne troops prior to operation Overlord (D –Day)

46. No. 56 The Marshall Collection 1st Aviation Fatality, 1908

47. No. 55 U.S. Army Archives Gen Douglas MacArthur Wading ashore in Philippines

48. No. 54 National Archives WWII, Nov 1944

49. No. 53 Hulton–Getty Archives Vietnam, 1969

50. No. 52 W. Eugene Smith Saipan, WWII, 1944

51. No. 51 Malcolm Browne Saigon, 1963 Buddhist monk self –immolation

52. No. 50 Paul Watson Mogadishu, Somalia

53. No. 49 National Archives “ Bataan Death March” 1942

54. No. 48 Tsuguichi Koyangi Bataan, 1942

55. No. 47 U.S. Navy Archives South Pacific Torpedoed Japanese cruiser

56. No. 46 Henri Huet Vietnam, 1966

57. No. 45 Associated Press Vietnam PoWs, 1973

58. No. 44 Walter Sanders Berlin Airlift, 1948

59. No. 43 Barrett Gallagher USS Intrepid, 1944

60. No. 42 Wayne Miller South Pacific, 1943

61. No. 41 Don McCullin Vietnam, 1968

62. No. 40 U.S. Navy Archives USS Bunker Hill, 1945

63. No. 39 U.S. Army Archives Conf of the Big 3, 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin

64. No. 38 Fenno Jacobs USS New Jersey, 1944

65. No. 37 Jerry Rutberg WWII, 1945

66. No. 36 U.S. Air Force Operation Greenhouse 1951 Atomic bomb test series Enewetok Atoll, Pacific Ocean

67. No. 35 U.S. Army Signal Corps Nagasaki, 1945 Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb 20 kilotons

68. No. 34 Ken Jarecke Persian Gulf War Iraqi soldier in burned –out armored vehicle

69. No. 33 Robert Ellison Khe Sanh, 1968

70. No. 32 Carl Mydans USS Missouri, 1945 Japanese surrender

71. No. 31 Philip Jones Griffiths Vietnam, 1968

72. No. 30 Bernie Boston Demonstration, 1967

73. No. 29 Corbis–Bettman Civil War, 1865 Survivors of Andersonville GA prison camp (Camp Sumter)

74. No. 28 David Douglas Duncan Korea, 1950 Retreat from Chosin Reservoir

75. No. 27 W. Eugene Smith WWII, 1945

76. No. 26 Gamma Liaison Saigon, 1975

77. No. 25 Carol Guzy Haiti, 1994

78. No. 24 Ronald, Haeberle “ Mi Lai Massacre” 1968

79. No. 23 U.S. Navy Archives USS Enterprise, 1943

80. No. 22 David Douglas Duncan Korea, 1950 Retreat from Chosin Reservoir

81. No. 21 George Strock WWII, 1943 First photo released to American public showing dead GIs (you can see maggots crawling on the man in the foreground)

82. No. 20 Bill Foley Beirut, 1983 Bombing of the Marine barracks

83. No. 19 Robert Capa WWII – The Last Day

84. No. 18 Alexander Gardner Antietam, Civil War, 1862

85. No. 17 U.S. Navy Archives Pearl Harbor, 1941 USS Arizona

86. No. 16 John Filo Kent State, 1970

87. No. 15 Thai Khad Chuon Vietnam, 1975

88. No. 14 U.S. Army Archives WWI, 1918

89. No. 13 Art Greenspon Vietnam, 1968

90. No. 12 U.S. Army Archives Rhine River, 1945

91. No. 11 Ed Clark President Roosevelt’s Funeral Warm Springs GA, 1945

92. No. 10 W. Eugene Smith Saipan, WWII, 1944

93. No. 9 David Turnley Persian Gulf War

94. No. 8 Eddie Adams Vietnam, 1968 Police chief executes suspected Viet Cong

95. No. 7 Alexander Gardner Gettysburg, 1863 It is thought that this picture was staged by the photographer

96. No. 6 Nick Ut Vietnam, 1972 Napalm attack victims

97. No. 5 Sal Veder Travis AFB, 1973

98. No. 4 Larry Burrows Vietnam, 1966

99. No. 3 Alfred Eisenstadt Times Square, 1945

100. No. 2 Robert Capa D –Day, Omaha Beach, 1944

101. No. 1 Joe Rosenthal Iwo Jima, WWII, 1945