A Marine sniper takes aim from behind a tree as his comrade looks through a pair of binoculars to establish the enemy position in Hue during the battle for the city in 1968.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis Brown, 23, of Culver, Ore., a member of the Navy's 3rd Mobile Construction Battalion, installs roof panels on a hut at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, in 2004.
Sgt. 1st Class Walter Longanbach, supply sergeant of Company D, 6th Infantry, 2nd Battle Group, issues the new, fast-firing M14 rifles to three men of his company in Berlin in 1961.
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 2004, schoolchildren learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the spot from which the civil rights leader delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Michael Bettencourt, 27, of Peabody, Mass., and fellow 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment troops lounge on Saddam Hussein's podium at Baghdad's ceremonial parade ground in Baghdad in May, 2003.
Marine Corps Sgt. Kevin Creasy of Ashland, Ohio, plays taps to conclude a November, 2006 dedication ceremony for the Semper Fidelis Memorial Park at the new National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va.
Soldiers with 4th Engineer Battalion, 62nd Engineer Sapper Company, 3rd Platoon pray before a mission conducted the day after their convoy was hit by three roadside bombs in Afghanistan in 2009.
Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, is interviewed at Zama Hospital during a 1971 Far East inspection tour that also included stops in Korea and Vietnam.
A soldier is silhouetted in front of the windows of Fraise Chapel in Kandahar, Afghanistan, as he salutes the helmet, rifle, boots and dog tags of Sgt. Robert Davis after a memorial service for Davis and 1st Lt. Laura Walker.
Helmets are removed but placed nearby for quick retrieval as Chaplain (Capt.) Albert Hartlage leads services for soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, of the 5th Infantry Division (Mech.) in February, 1971.
Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher, captain of the USS Pueblo, waves as he arrives at the NCO Club on the U.S. advance base near Panmunjom for a press conference following the release of the ship's crew from captivity in North Korea in December, 1968
Little Richard, known for classics as "Lucille," "Good Golly, Miss Molly," "Tutti-Frutti" and "Be-Bop-A-Lula," is in top form at age 60 during his 1993 tour of Europe.
Soldiers from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade slosh through a rice paddy as they're dropped off for a patrol about 15 miles south of Saigon IN 1967.
After presenting New York Giants manager Leo Durocher with the traditional "key to the city" in October, 1953, Tokyo Vice Governor Hikoichi Haru accepts a banner from the touring Giants in return.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer talks with Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko before a memorial service for President John F. Kennedy at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Tokyo in 1963.
Umbrellas shield President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy from the rain as they arrive in Vienna for JFK's summit meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1961.
