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Category: Portfolio

Photo of Miles Davis.

From Audrey Hepburn to John Wayne: The Lush Hollywood Photography of Bob Willoughby

by Michael Dolan4/25/20235/11/2023

Bob Willoughby’s striking images on set of Hollywood’s top feature films defined the movie still.

Photo of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Samuel Galan, a UH-1Y Venom crew chief assigned to Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron (HMLA) 169, opens fire while conducting an interdiction mission over Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 3, 2013. Galan, from Houston, Texas, is deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Marine Corps

These Aircraft Have Saved Men on the Ground

by Jon Guttman3/24/20232/1/2023
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During the Golden Age of Air Travel, These Posters Let You Fly Around the World Without Leaving the Ground

by Aviation History Editors3/22/20233/22/2023
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This Photographer Went Around the World to Capture Every Single WWI Battle. Here Are His Photos.

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/21/20233/21/2023
Confederates destroying railroad

A Confederate Artist’s Intimate Look at the Southern War Effort

by Stephen Davis3/20/20231/24/2023

See the Real Rosie the Riveters at Work

by Tom Huntington3/8/20233/19/2023
Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20233/2/2023
spy-dragonfly-camera

Umbrella Guns and Fake Poop? Cold War Spies Thought of Everything.

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher1/19/20231/19/2023
esther-krinitz-quilt-childhood-home-ww2

This Holocaust Survivor Told the Horrors of War With Fabric and Thread

by World War II12/29/202212/29/2022
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A Look At The Legends Behind British Cap Badge Symbols

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/19/202212/19/2022

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