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Japanese soldiers at Tarawa Island
Dead Japanese soldiers lay scattered around a blasted pillbox at Tarawa Island in the South Pacific on Nov. 11, 1943, during World War II. A bloody battle ensued after the U.S. Marines invaded the Japanese occupied atoll. This photo by Frank Filan won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944. -
U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment
This iconic photo that won Joe Rosenthal the Prize in 1945 depicts U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raising the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan. -
Residents from Pyongyang, North Korea
In this photo by Max Desfor that won the Prize in 1951, residents from Pyongyang, North Korea, and refugees from other areas crawl perilously over shattered girders of the city's bridge as they flee south across the Taedong River to escape the advance of Chinese Communist troops. -
South Vietnamese Army
This photo, taken by Horst Faas, shows a father as he holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle March 19, 1964. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border. It won Faas the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1965. -
Meredith and March Against Fear
In this photo, which won in 1967, civil rights activist James Meredith grimaces in pain as he pulls himself across Highway 51 after being shot in Hernando, Mississippi, in the summer of 1966. Meredith was leading the March Against Fear to encourage African Americans to vote when he was shot. He completed the march from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi, after his wounds were treated. The photo was taken by Jack Thornell. -
Eddie Adams the Pulitzer Prize in 1969
This picture that won legendary photojournalist Eddie Adams the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 depicts South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, as he fires his pistol, shooting and killing suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also known as Bay Lop) on a Saigon street in 1968, early in the Tet Offensive. -
South Vietnamese Children Frightened
South Vietnamese forces follow after frightened children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down a road, after a South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped flaming napalm on its own troops and civilians. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. This photo, taken by Vietnamese-born war photographer Nick Ut, won the Prize in 1973. -
Thammasat University Massacre
This photo, taken by Neal Ulevich in 1976, shows a member of a Thai political faction striking at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok. Police stormed the university after students demanded expulsion of a former military ruler and barricaded themselves in the school. The picture won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. -
President Ronald Reagan shot
This photo, taken by Ron Edmonds in 1981, shows Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, foreground, Washington policeman, Thomas K. Delehanty, center, and presidential press secretary James Brady, background, laying wounded on a street outside a Washington hotel after shots were fired by John Hinckley, Jr., who pushed a pistol through a cluster of bystanders and fired six shots at President Ronald Reagan. Brady, who was permanently disabled due to the attack and later became a gun control advo -
Starving Women in Ruhango
This photo taken by Jean-Marc Bouju in 1994 shows a starving woman at a makeshift health clinic in Ruhango, Rwanda, where thousands of civilians took refuge from the fighting between government troops and the Rwandan rebels. With no access to sufficient medical care, doctors said 20 to 25 people in Rwanda died every day from disease and hunger during the fighting. This photo, part of a larger portfolio, won the Associated Press the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
