BRAIN DAMAGE

Yûkoku (Patriotismo) (1966) - Yukio Mishima & Masaki Dômoto

“Staff Sergeant Mel D. Blanchard, 11th Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division, sitting shirtless in the sun writing a letter.” [1970]

John Dittmann ©Stars and Stripes South Vietnam, September, 1967: A soldier from the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry pauses during a 25th Infantry Division, 1st Brigade helicopter assault just south of the Ho Bo Woods. Three companies swept north from the landing zone to clear the area and assess bomb damage from a B-52 raid earlier in the day. One of the companies, trailing as a reaction force, was ambushed and engaged in a 45-minute fire fight.

illustration by Imiri Sakabashira

Fidel Castro with soviet sailors during his 1963 trip to USSR

German POWs are marched to a collection area on Sword Beach by British soldiers of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own) on the afternoon of the successful Allied landings at Normandy (Operation Overlord). Lion-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France. 6 June 1944. Image taken by Sgt. J. Mapham, No. 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit.