Anticipation Gallery

Search And Destroy

The second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division fly over an RTO and his commander on an isolated landing zone during Operation Pershing, a search and destroy mission on the Bong Son Plain and An Lao Valley of South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The two American soldiers are waiting for the second wave to come in. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

Rioters Bloody Hands

Rioters bathe their standard bearers hands in blood during violent disturbances related to low pay in the iron industry, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, 1831. An illustration from Volume 2 of The Chronicles of Crime, or The New Newgate Calendar (1841), from an original drawing by Phiz (illustrator Hablot Knight Browne). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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How WWI was fought

"As it is for most of us" World War I was a slog, described by many as "90% routine and 10% terror." Although soldiers lived with death every day, for the most part, major battles were few and far between, and sometimes it was the dread and anticipation of what was to come that was most psychologically damaging, especially for inexperienced new recruits. When an offensive did come, nobody could predict the ferocity or the outcome. Despite commanders hopes that attacks might take place in an orderly formation, most were a chaotic scrum of noise, smoke, screams and shell fire, as summed up by Bairnsfather's loose, vigorous penmanship. Date: 1916

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