LARRY BURROWS/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES
VIETNAM 1966
Troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, fall back drained and hurting after failing to take a strategic position from North Vietnamese forces. With American presence in Vietnam escalating throughout 1966, so is the number of photojournalists capturing the horrors of the war. This image was taken by Englishman Larry Burrows, who did what he could to experience the life of a soldier by living in military camps and remaining on the front lines during fighting. He was killed in 1971, while covering the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos, when his helicopter was shot down.