12月 2011
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50 Photos That Brought the War Home - Photo... →
For much of the 20th century, photography was the single most powerful method for conveying the horrors, triumphs, epic challenges, and small, daily struggles of warfare. In searing, unforgettable pictures, great photojournalists quite literally brought war — every war — home to millions of Americans. Here, LIFE.com presents 50 extraordinary photographs from three 20th-century...
Kamikaze! Attack of the 'Divine Wind' - Photo... →
Late in 1944, after several critical defeats and its military resources wasting away, Japan resorted to kamikaze (“divine wind”) warfare: suicide attacks by aviators upon Allied warships in the Pacific. The aircraft were turned into manned missiles launching taiatari (“body attacks”) primarily targeting aircraft carriers. Japan’s refusal to surrender combined with its...
11月 2011
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10月 2011
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LIFE's Best Baseball Pictures - Photo Gallery -... →
Willie Mays talks to a young, enthralled fan. “Willie was the complete ballplayer,” Hank Aaron once told LIFE.com. “He was everything that everyone else wanted to be. He was exciting. He did things that fans loved seeing. You looked at him and you said, ‘I wanna be like him. I wanna be better than him.’ You just felt like he played the game the way it was supposed to...
Marilyn Monroe: Life and Times - Photo Gallery -... →
Hollywood film cutter Gladys Baker shares a happy moment with daughter Norma Jeane, 3, in 1929. Later, the mentally unstable Gladys left the girl in a series of foster homes.
America's Air Warfare Hardware - Photo Gallery -... →
The U.S. has maintained its unchallenged position as the world’s sole military superpower not least because it essentially owns the world’s skies when it comes to air warfare. With stealth jets, smart bombs, laser-guided missiles, and the highly-trained pilots to guide them, America’s air-warfare hardware is considered by most to he unmatched. Here: Three electronic warfare...
9月 2011
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How to Eat Sushi - Photo Gallery - LIFE →
A lot of time has passed since the only person who indulged in sushi was your unbelievably sophisticated globetrotting uncle. Nowadays, schoolchildren pack kappamaki (cucumber sushi) into their lunchboxes, and sushi bars are a staple in many company cafeterias. American babies pick up chopsticks alongside their baby forks. Yes, America has become a nation of sushi eaters. But do you really know...
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Instagram: Tribute to New York City - Photo... →
LIFE.com asked Instagram users to show us what they love about New York City, whose bustling streets, amazing architecture, and unique people make it one of the most vibrant places on Earth. And with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks fast approaching, these beautiful snapshots are a testament to a mighty town that was once down — but never out. (Visit Instagram.com...
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High and Dry - Rare, Unseen: Building the Pentagon... →
The Pentagon — and, by extension, the U.S. military — has become such a prominent and obvious symbol of American might over the years that it’s easy to forget that the world’s largest office building and home of the Department of Defense is just that: a building. Here, on both the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack in Washington that left 125 Pentagon employees dead...
Japan Disaster: Minute by Minute - Timeline - LIFE →
The quake strikes in the Pacific 89 miles east of Sendai. It’s so massive that it moves parts of Japan nearly eight feet closer to North America, changes the tilt of the Earth by 10 inches, and shortens the Earth’s day by 1.8 microseconds. It also unleashes a massive tsunami that races toward Japan’s islands. Eleven of Japan’s 55 nuclear reactors shut down automatically...
World War II: In Praise of the RAF - Photo Gallery... →
The pilots of an RAF (Royal Air Force) fighter squadron that destroyed 73 enemy planes and damaged 38 others during the Battle of Britain crowd around a Hawker Hurricane with their canine mascot. Of England’s debt to the outnumbered pilots who defeated the Nazi Luftwaffe, Winston Churchill famously said: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so...
They Were There: 9/11 Photographers - Photo... →
It was a late-summer day like any other. And then, suddenly, it wasn’t. On the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, eighteen photographers — some who were at home, some who were shooting other assignments in New York when the planes hit — spoke with LIFE.com about capturing history, and living to tell about it. Kelly Guenther, then a freelance photographer for the New York...
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Japan Disaster: Minute by Minute - Timeline - LIFE →
A 22-foot wave strikes the small, historic coastal town of Iwate Kamaishi-oki.
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8月 2011
30件の投稿
