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  2. Phan Thi Kim Phuc - Wikipedia

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    The picture for me and unquestionably for many others could not have been more real. The photo was as authentic as the Vietnam War itself. The horror of the Vietnam War recorded by me did not have to be fixed. That terrified little girl is still alive today and has become an eloquent testimony to the authenticity of that photo.

  3. Sonderkommando photographs - Wikipedia

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    The photographer, shooting from the hip, aimed the camera too high. The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas ...

  4. My Lai massacre - Wikipedia

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    My Lai massacre. /  15.17833°N 108.86944°E  / 15.17833; 108.86944. The My Lai massacre ( / ˌmiːˈlaɪ /; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam ...

  5. Situation Room (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Situation Room is a photograph taken by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer, [1] at 4:05 p.m. on May 1, 2011. The photograph shows U.S. president Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving live updates from Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin ...

  6. Shell shock - Wikipedia

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    Shell shock is a term that originated during World War I to describe the type of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that many soldiers experienced during the war, before PTSD was officially recognized. [2] It is a reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced helplessness, which could manifest as panic, fear, flight ...

  7. Category : Images of people of the American Civil War

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    Media in category "Images of people of the American Civil War" The following 25 files are in this category, out of 25 total. Ambrose Everett Burnside.jpg 1,200 × 1,600; 831 KB

  8. War photography - Wikipedia

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    Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam, 1862, Alexander Gardner. War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places. Photographers who participate in this genre may find themselves placed in harm's way, and are sometimes killed trying to get their pictures out of the war arena.

  9. Vietnam Inc. - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 0-7148-4603-1. OCLC. 207485. Vietnam Inc. is a photographic book produced by Philip Jones Griffiths and published in 1971 by Collier Books in New York, in both hard and soft back. [1] It contains 266 black and white photographs most with captions, sympathetic to the civilian perspective of the South Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War .