Photo Section

Aerial view of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast, August 1945. (Truman Library)

Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin shake hands at Potsdam, July 1945. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Mao Zedong addresses his followers, December 1944. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. ambassador Patrick Hurley and Col. I. V. Yeaton meet with CCP leaders Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai in Yan’an, August 1945. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. Marines patrolling amid ruined buildings on Wolmi Island in Inchon Harbor, South Korea, September 15, 1950. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. Marines storming the seawalls at Inchon Harbor, South Korea, September 15, 1950. (National Archives and Records Administration)

A Korean woman searches through ruins in Seoul, South Korea, November 1950. (National Archives and Records Administration)

UN Forces crossing the Thirty-Eighth Parallel, 1950. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. Marines guarding captured North Koreans, 1950. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. Marines move forward after close-air support flushes out Communist forces from their hillside entrenchments. Billows of smoke rise skyward from the target area. Hagaru-ri, North Korea, December 26, 1950. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. soldiers traverse mountains north of Seoul, South Korea, January 31, 1951. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. Marines guarding captured Chinese troops, Hoengsong, South Korea, March 2, 1951. (National Archives and Records Administration)

President Richard Nixon shakes hands with Indonesia’s president, Suharto, 1970. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Napalm bombs explode south of Saigon, South Vietnam, 1965. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Black smoke floats over Saigon, South Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive, 1968. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. soldiers wait for the helicopter that will evacuate their fallen comrade, Long Khanh, South Vietnam, 1966. (National Archives and Records Administration)

U.S. soldiers burn a suspected guerrilla camp in My Tho, South Vietnam, April 1968. (National Archives and Records Administration)

The so-called Blood Telegram, written by Archer Blood and the staff of the U.S. consulate in Dhaka, East Pakistan, in protest of the Nixon administration’s refusal to denounce Pakistani government atrocities, April 6, 1971. (National Security Archive, George Washington University)

The National Security Archive has asked that the following citation be included with the above photo of the Blood Telegram:

Document 8. U.S. Consulate (Dacca) Cable, Dissent from U.S. Policy Toward East Pakistan, April 6, 1971, Confidential, 5 pp. Includes Signatures from the Department of State. Source: RG 59, SN 70-73 Pol and Def. From: Pol Pak-U.S. To: Pol 17-1 Pak-U.S. Box 2535. The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 79, Edited by Sajit Gandhi, December 16, 2002

An aerial view of Muslim-occupied West Beirut and the Mediterranean shoreline. Buildings throughout the city had been damaged by shelling during the ongoing confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization, April 1983. (National Archives and Records Administration)

An aerial view of the Beirut stadium that had been used as a PLO munitions dump, September 1982. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Two U.S. ships, the USS Wisconsin and the USS Tripoli, patrol the Gulf of Oman during the Iran-Iraq War, October 1987. (National Archives and Records Administration)

An Afghan Mujahideen with a shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile, August 1988. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Soviet infantry and combat vehicles in Afghanistan, August 1988. (National Archives and Records Administration)

President Ronald Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahideen leaders in the Oval Office, February 1982. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Helicopter-tank operation in Afghanistan. (Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984; National Archives and Records Administration)

Afghan Mujahideen return to a village destroyed by Soviet troops, March 1986. (National Archives and Records Administration)

A Khmer Rouge soldier waves his pistol and orders store owners to abandon their shops in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 17, 1975, as the capital fell to Communist forces. A large portion of the city’s population was reportedly forced to evacuate. (Photo from a West German television film; AP Photo/Christoph Froehder)

Iraqi soldiers in foxholes near their pontoon bridge crossing over the Karun River during an air attack on October 17, 1980, in Basra, Iraq. (AP Photo)