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The 100 Greatest
Military Photographs
From Military Times Publishing Company, insert to the 25 Sept 2000 issues of Army/Navy/AF Times
No. 100
Robert Capa
WWII
No. 99
U.S. Navy Archives
Pearl Harbor
No. 98
Jacob Harris
WWII
No. 97
Ray Platnick
WWII
No. 96
David Turnley
Operation Desert Storm
No. 95
Charles Kerlee
WWII
No. 94
Christopher Morris
USS Stark
No. 93
Philip Jones Griffiths
Vietnam, 1968
No. 92
Christopher Morris
Persian Gulf War
No. 91
U.S. Army Archives
WWII, July 1944
No. 90
William Dinwiddle
Rough Riders, 1898
No. 89
Brad Markel
Andrews AFB, 1991
No. 88
Philadelphia Public Ledger
WWI, Nov 1918
No. 87
Adrian Duff
WWI, Sep 1918
No. 86
Stanley Tretick
South Korea
No. 85
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Lt Gen George S. Patton
No. 84
Robert Jakobsen
Ca National Guard, 1940
No. 83
Wayne Miller
WWII, 1944
No. 82
U.S. Army Air Force
WWII, 1943
No. 81
U.S. Army Archives
WWII, 1944
Paris, France
No. 80
Peter Turnley
“Highway of Doom”
Persian Gulf War, 1991
No. 79
Hank Walker
South Korea, 1950
No. 78
U.S. Marine Corps
Vietnam
No. 77
Steve Elfers
Operation Desert Storm
No. 76
Steve Elfers
Operation Desert Storm
No. 75
Bruno Barbey
Persion Gulf War
No. 74
Alexander Gardner
Civil War, 1862
No. 73
Jeff Tuttle
Operation Desert Shield
No. 72
U.S. Army Archives
WWII, 1943
Tarawa Atoll
No. 71
Alfred Cooperman
WWII, 1943
No. 70
Rich Mason
Persian Gulf War
No. 69
W. Eugene Smith
Saipan, WWII
No. 68
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966
Plane is a Douglas A–1 Skyraider
No. 67
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966
No. 66
U.S. Navy Archives
Pearl Harbor, Dec 1941
No. 65
Corbis–Bettman
WWI, 1919
No. 64
Sadayuki Mikami
Persian Gulf War
No. 63
Hulton–Getty Archives
Vietnam, 1966
No. 62
Corbis–Bettman
Saigon, 1975
No. 61
Time Life
South Korea, 1950
No. 60
Fred Ramage
D–Day, 1944
No. 59
U.S. Navy Archives
USS Hornet, 1942
Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo
No. 58
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966
No. 57
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Gen Dwight Eisenhower
Speaking to Army Airborne
troops prior to operation
Overlord (D–Day)
No. 56
The Marshall Collection
1st Aviation Fatality,
1908
No. 55
U.S. Army Archives
Gen Douglas MacArthur
Wading ashore in Philippines
No. 54
National Archives
WWII, Nov 1944
No. 53
Hulton–Getty Archives
Vietnam, 1969
No. 52
W. Eugene Smith
Saipan, WWII, 1944
No. 51
Malcolm Browne
Saigon, 1963
Buddhist monk self–immolation
No. 50
Paul Watson
Mogadishu, Somalia
No. 49
National Archives
“Bataan Death March”
1942
No. 48
Tsuguichi Koyangi
Bataan, 1942
No. 47
U.S. Navy Archives
South Pacific
Torpedoed Japanese cruiser
No. 46
Henri Huet
Vietnam, 1966
No. 45
Associated Press
Vietnam PoWs, 1973
No. 44
Walter Sanders
Berlin Airlift, 1948
No. 43
Barrett Gallagher
USS Intrepid, 1944
No. 42
Wayne Miller
South Pacific, 1943
No. 41
Don McCullin
Vietnam, 1968
No. 40
U.S. Navy Archives
USS Bunker Hill, 1945
No. 39
U.S. Army Archives
Conf of the Big 3, 1945
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
No. 38
Fenno Jacobs
USS New Jersey, 1944
No. 37
Jerry Rutberg
WWII, 1945
No. 36
U.S. Air Force
Operation Greenhouse
1951
Atomic bomb test series
Enewetok Atoll, Pacific Ocean
No. 35
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Nagasaki, 1945
Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb
20 kilotons
No. 34
Ken Jarecke
Persian Gulf War
Iraqi soldier in burned–out armored vehicle
No. 33
Robert Ellison
Khe Sanh, 1968
No. 32
Carl Mydans
USS Missouri, 1945
Japanese surrender
No. 31
Philip Jones Griffiths
Vietnam, 1968
No. 30
Bernie Boston
Demonstration, 1967
No. 29
Corbis–Bettman
Civil War, 1865
Survivors of Andersonville GA
prison camp (Camp Sumter)
No. 28
David Douglas Duncan
Korea, 1950
Retreat from Chosin Reservoir
No. 27
W. Eugene Smith
WWII, 1945
No. 26
Gamma Liaison
Saigon, 1975
No. 25
Carol Guzy
Haiti, 1994
No. 24
Ronald, Haeberle
“Mi Lai Massacre”
1968
No. 23
U.S. Navy Archives
USS Enterprise, 1943
No. 22
David Douglas Duncan
Korea, 1950
Retreat from Chosin Reservoir
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)
No. 20
Bill Foley
Beirut, 1983
Bombing of the Marine barracks
No. 19
Robert Capa
WWII – The Last Day
No. 18
Alexander Gardner
Antietam, Civil War, 1862
No. 17
U.S. Navy Archives
Pearl Harbor, 1941
USS Arizona
No. 16
John Filo
Kent State, 1970
No. 15
Thai Khad Chuon
Vietnam, 1975
No. 14
U.S. Army Archives
WWI, 1918
No. 13
Art Greenspon
Vietnam, 1968
No. 12
U.S. Army Archives
Rhine River, 1945
No. 11
Ed Clark
President Roosevelt’s Funeral
Warm Springs GA, 1945
No. 10
W. Eugene Smith
Saipan, WWII, 1944
No. 9
David Turnley
Persian Gulf War
No. 8
Eddie Adams
Vietnam, 1968
Police chief executes suspected Viet Cong
No. 7
Alexander Gardner
Gettysburg, 1863
It is thought that this picture was staged by the photographer
No. 6
Nick Ut
Vietnam, 1972
Napalm attack victims
No. 5
Sal Veder
Travis AFB, 1973
No. 4
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966
No. 3
Alfred Eisenstadt
Times Square, 1945
No. 2
Robert Capa
D–Day, Omaha Beach, 1944
No. 1
Joe Rosenthal
Iwo Jima, WWII, 1945
