memorial day
Enlist in the Air Service, WWI
Nov. 11, 1943: Crewmen of a U.S. Coast Guard combat transport go for a swim under the hull of a Japanese landmark in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The boat is the Kinugawa Maru, beached by the Japanese after being riddled by American gunners. Coast guardsmen took part in the original invasion of the Solomons. (AP Photo)
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Photojournalists bravely entire war zones; risking their lives to bring images back to us at home.
The Associated Press photographer Huynh Thanh My covers a Vietnamese battalion pinned down in a Mekong Delta rice paddy about a month before he was killed in combat on Oct. 10, 1965. (AP PHOTO)
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Nov. 26, 1944: Burial at sea ceremonies are held aboard the USS Intrepid for members of the crew lost after the carrier was hit by a Japanese suicide pilot while operating off the coast of Luzon, the Philippines, during World War II. Sixteen men were killed in the kamikaze attack. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
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“Caution: Being a Marine in Khe Sanh may be hazardous to your health” - Newsweek
Vietnam War
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War Is Hell - Vietnam War
An unidentified U.S. Army soldier wears a hand lettered “War Is Hell” slogan on his helmet, in Vietnam on June 18, 1965. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)
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but his soul goes marching on
![Civil War
Flag of 37th Pennsylvania Infantry, Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865, printed later], Medium: 1 photographic print : albumen silver, Summary: Full length view of Civil War soldier holding torn flag](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llzwfb3uix1qh1e4vo1_500.jpg)
Civil War
Flag of 37th Pennsylvania Infantry, Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865, printed later], Medium: 1 photographic print : albumen silver, Summary: Full length view of Civil War soldier holding torn flag
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