EVB2944787: Sailor on duty at prow lookout aboard USS Nassau. Oct. 1943. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944788: Tattooed sailor aboard the USS New Jersey, Dec. 1944. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944792: U.S. landing craft approach the beach of Angaur Island, Sept. 16, 1944. Six miles from Peleliu, it took 10,000 U.S soldiers 36 days to defeat 1,400 Japanese. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944805: Motion of its propellers causes an 'aura' to form around this F6F Hellcat fighter on USS YORKTOWN. Nov. 1943. World War 2, Pacific Ocean / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944825: Iwo Jima strategy is discussed in a pre-invasion briefing. February 12-18, 1945. The Island was needed for an airport to support B-29's bombing the Japanese mainland in the last year of World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944834: Landing craft delivering Marine invasion supplies to Iwo Jima. Feb. 19, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944837: Surviving Iwo Jima flag raisers at dedication of U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944840: The first flag raising on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, Feb. 23, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944844: Stars and Stripes wave over the summit of Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Two Marines gaze at remainder of island, part of which is stubbornly held by Japanese. On or after Feb. 23, 1945. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944850: Marines making a direct frontal attack on a Japanese postion on Iwo Jima. Feb. 1945. They are from the 5th Division, 3rd. Battalion, 28th Marines. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938796: Afghanistan National Army Soldiers form a line while participating in an unexploded ordinance field training exercise conducted by U.S. Army. Kubal May 23 2002., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938799: Afghan soldiers patrol behind U.S. Soldiers in Heheayat village Wardak province Afghanistan Aug. 7 2010., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938801: U.S. Sailor and a Marine bring a wounded Pashtun fighter from Afghanistan aboard the USS Bataan for medical treatment in the first months of the U.S. fighting after the al Qaeda 9/11 terrorist attacks. Dec. 6 2001., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938805: F-14 Tomcat fighter launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy on a combat missions over Afghanistan. April 27 2002, Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938814: U.S. Navy Seabees run heavy graders down the runway to patch holes and remove excess dirt in the first weeks' occupation of Kandahar on Dec. 18 2001. Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan evolved into a major U.S. military base supporting 5 000-plus militar, Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938822: Fully geared U.S. Marines in helicopter about to be deployed in Afghanistan from the amphibious command ship USS Bataan. Dec. 14 2001., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938827: U.S. Army soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division reinforce the roof of a forward observation post with sandbags near Kabul Afghanistan. May 24 2002., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938837: A U.S. Army soldier rides an All Terrain Vehicle into a cave to search for munitions on the outskirts of Kabul Afghanistan. July 19 2002., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938844: Looking down on the village of Markhanai located in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan where Coalition soldiers from US Canada and Afghanistan searched for Al Qaeda forces and Osama Bin Laden. May 5 2002., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938846: U.S. Army soldiers fortify an Afghan Highway Police checkpoint in Robat Afghanistan by placing razor wire around the perimeter on March 19 2010., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938861: McDonald's 1 Store Museum is a recreation of the first McDonald's Restaurant. It opened as a restaurant in Des Plaines Illinois by McDonald's Corporation founder Ray Kroc on April 15 1955. Torn down in 1984 it was rebuilt from the original plans and, Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938864: McDonald's restaurant in Shanghai China. By 2010 there were 100 McDonald's restaurants in the city. McDonald's Corp. photo., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938870: The U.S. Coast Guard made a record drug seizure of approximately 42 845 pounds of cocaine aboard the Panamanian flagged motor vessel GATUN off the coast of Isla de Coiba Panama on March 18 2007., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938878: Back view of U.S. sailors with weapons ready as they approach a ramshackle dhow in the Gulf of Aden. Such boats are used by pirates and refugees. Jan. 1 2010, Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938879: U.S. Sailors and Coast Guardsmen question four suspected drug smugglers after their boat was intercepted in the eastern Pacific Ocean March 31 2010., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938886: A Royal Navy boarding team looking for narcotics inspects a suspect Dhow in the Persian Gulf. July 10 2008., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938888: Northern Alliance troops under General Dostum's command in Mazar-e Sharif take a break on a wall in the median of the town's busiest street. The Taliban were driven from Mazir-e Sharif on Nov. 10 2001 by these troops., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938896: General Norman Schwarzkopf listens to Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney during a press conference held by U.S. and Saudi Arabian officials during Operation Desert Storm. Feb.10 1991, Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938903: U.S. Army and Navy guards escort a detainee to Guantanamo Bay's Camp One recreational area where he could spend up to two hours a day., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938920: Islamic detainees pray at Camp Delta the military prison at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Oct. 28 2009., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938921: Islamic detainees pray at Camp Delta the military prison at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Jan. 24 2008., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938927: The leeward airfield at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba. May 6 2010., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938928: Smoke from the ruins of the World Trade Center two days after the 9/11 terrorists attacks north of New York City's Battery Part and Financial District office buildings. Sept. 13 2001, / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938929: Smoke billows from the Pentagon moments after Al-Qaeda terrorists crashed hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 jetliner into the building at approximately 9 30 AM on Sept. 11 2001., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938934: U.S. Army Colonel and his Afghan interpreter discover a pile of dried poppy plants in Badula Qulp Helmand province Afghanistan Feb. 12 2010., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938946: President Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos with U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Stephen W. Bosworth during a 40th anniversary reenactment of General Douglas MacArthur's landing at Red Beach on October 20 1944., Photo by:Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images