This document lists and describes the 100 greatest military photographs as selected by Military Times Publishing Company. It includes photographs from various wars and military events ranging from the Civil War to Operation Desert Storm. For each photograph it provides the photographer's name, year, location and brief description. The number one photograph is Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II.

1. The 100 Greatest
Military Photographs
From Military Times Publishing Company,
insert to the 25 Sept 2000 issues of Army/Navy/AF Times

2. No. 100
Robert Capa
WWII

3. No. 99
U.S. Navy Archives
Pearl Harbor

4. No. 98
Jacob Harris
WWII

5. No. 97
Ray Platnick
WWII

6. No. 96
David Turnley
Operation Desert Storm

7. No. 95
Charles Kerlee
WWII

8. No. 94
Christopher Morris
USS Stark

9. No. 93
Philip Jones Griffiths
Vietnam, 1968

10. No. 92
Christopher Morris
Persian Gulf War

11. No. 91
U.S. Army Archives
WWII, July 1944

12. No. 90
William Dinwiddle
Rough Riders, 1898

13. No. 89
Brad Markel
Andrews AFB, 1991

14. No. 88
Philadelphia Public Ledger
WWI, Nov 1918

15. No. 87
Adrian Duff
WWI, Sep 1918

16. No. 86
Stanley Tretick
South Korea

17. No. 85
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Lt Gen George S. Patton

18. No. 84
Robert Jakobsen
Ca National Guard, 1940

19. No. 83
Wayne Miller
WWII, 1944

20. No. 82
U.S. Army Air Force
WWII, 1943

21. No. 81
U.S. Army Archives
WWII, 1944
Paris, France

22. No. 80
Peter Turnley
“Highway of Doom”
Persian Gulf War, 1991

23. No. 79
Hank Walker
South Korea, 1950

24. No. 78
U.S. Marine Corps
Vietnam

25. No. 77
Steve Elfers
Operation Desert Storm

26. No. 76
Steve Elfers
Operation Desert Storm

27. No. 75
Bruno Barbey
Persion Gulf War

28. No. 74
Alexander Gardner
Civil War, 1862

29. No. 73
Jeff Tuttle
Operation Desert Shield

30. No. 72
U.S. Army Archives
WWII, 1943
Tarawa Atoll

31. No. 71
Alfred Cooperman
WWII, 1943

32. No. 70
Rich Mason
Persian Gulf War

33. No. 69
W. Eugene Smith
Saipan, WWII

34. No. 68
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966
Plane is a Douglas A–1 Skyraider

35. No. 67
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966

36. No. 66
U.S. Navy Archives
Pearl Harbor, Dec 1941

37. No. 65
Corbis–Bettman
WWI, 1919

38. No. 64
Sadayuki Mikami
Persian Gulf War

39. No. 63
Hulton–Getty Archives
Vietnam, 1966

40. No. 62
Corbis–Bettman
Saigon, 1975

41. No. 61
Time Life
South Korea, 1950

42. No. 60
Fred Ramage
D–Day, 1944

43. No. 59
U.S. Navy Archives
USS Hornet, 1942
Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo

44. No. 58
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966

45. No. 57
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Gen Dwight Eisenhower
Speaking to Army Airborne
troops prior to operation
Overlord (D–Day)

46. No. 56
The Marshall Collection
1st Aviation Fatality,
1908

47. No. 55
U.S. Army Archives
Gen Douglas MacArthur
Wading ashore in Philippines

48. No. 54
National Archives
WWII, Nov 1944

49. No. 53
Hulton–Getty Archives
Vietnam, 1969

50. No. 52
W. Eugene Smith
Saipan, WWII, 1944

51. No. 51
Malcolm Browne
Saigon, 1963
Buddhist monk self–immolation

52. No. 50
Paul Watson
Mogadishu, Somalia

53. No. 49
National Archives
“Bataan Death March”
1942

54. No. 48
Tsuguichi Koyangi
Bataan, 1942

55. No. 47
U.S. Navy Archives
South Pacific
Torpedoed Japanese cruiser

56. No. 46
Henri Huet
Vietnam, 1966

57. No. 45
Associated Press
Vietnam PoWs, 1973

58. No. 44
Walter Sanders
Berlin Airlift, 1948

59. No. 43
Barrett Gallagher
USS Intrepid, 1944

60. No. 42
Wayne Miller
South Pacific, 1943

61. No. 41
Don McCullin
Vietnam, 1968

62. No. 40
U.S. Navy Archives
USS Bunker Hill, 1945

63. No. 39
U.S. Army Archives
Conf of the Big 3, 1945
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin

64. No. 38
Fenno Jacobs
USS New Jersey, 1944

65. No. 37
Jerry Rutberg
WWII, 1945

66. No. 36
U.S. Air Force
Operation Greenhouse
1951
Atomic bomb test series
Enewetok Atoll, Pacific Ocean

67. No. 35
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Nagasaki, 1945
Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb
20 kilotons

68. No. 34
Ken Jarecke
Persian Gulf War
Iraqi soldier in burned–out armored vehicle

69. No. 33
Robert Ellison
Khe Sanh, 1968

70. No. 32
Carl Mydans
USS Missouri, 1945
Japanese surrender

71. No. 31
Philip Jones Griffiths
Vietnam, 1968

72. No. 30
Bernie Boston
Demonstration, 1967

73. No. 29
Corbis–Bettman
Civil War, 1865
Survivors of Andersonville GA
prison camp (Camp Sumter)

74. No. 28
David Douglas Duncan
Korea, 1950
Retreat from Chosin Reservoir

75. No. 27
W. Eugene Smith
WWII, 1945

76. No. 26
Gamma Liaison
Saigon, 1975

77. No. 25
Carol Guzy
Haiti, 1994

78. No. 24
Ronald, Haeberle
“Mi Lai Massacre”
1968

79. No. 23
U.S. Navy Archives
USS Enterprise, 1943

80. No. 22
David Douglas Duncan
Korea, 1950
Retreat from Chosin Reservoir

81. No. 21
George Strock
WWII, 1943
First photo released to American
public showing dead GIs (you can
see maggots crawling on the man in
the foreground)

82. No. 20
Bill Foley
Beirut, 1983
Bombing of the Marine barracks

83. No. 19
Robert Capa
WWII – The Last Day

84. No. 18
Alexander Gardner
Antietam, Civil War, 1862

85. No. 17
U.S. Navy Archives
Pearl Harbor, 1941
USS Arizona

86. No. 16
John Filo
Kent State, 1970

87. No. 15
Thai Khad Chuon
Vietnam, 1975

88. No. 14
U.S. Army Archives
WWI, 1918

89. No. 13
Art Greenspon
Vietnam, 1968

90. No. 12
U.S. Army Archives
Rhine River, 1945

91. No. 11
Ed Clark
President Roosevelt’s Funeral
Warm Springs GA, 1945

92. No. 10
W. Eugene Smith
Saipan, WWII, 1944

93. No. 9
David Turnley
Persian Gulf War

94. No. 8
Eddie Adams
Vietnam, 1968
Police chief executes suspected Viet Cong

95. No. 7
Alexander Gardner
Gettysburg, 1863
It is thought that this picture was staged by the photographer

96. No. 6
Nick Ut
Vietnam, 1972
Napalm attack victims

97. No. 5
Sal Veder
Travis AFB, 1973

98. No. 4
Larry Burrows
Vietnam, 1966

99. No. 3
Alfred Eisenstadt
Times Square, 1945

100. No. 2
Robert Capa
D–Day, Omaha Beach, 1944

101. No. 1
Joe Rosenthal
Iwo Jima, WWII, 1945