EVB2946231: U.S. Airborne combat team en route to a drop zone at Munsan-ni, Korea, on March, 22, 1951. Packed into a C-119 Flying Boxcar, they jumped on the south bank of the Imjin River, 20 miles behind front line. Their mission to trap Communist forces retreating from Seoul was only partially successful because the enemy had already left. Korean War, 1950-53 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947934: President George W. Bush announced that 'Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.' On Sept. 20, 2001, to a Joint Session of Congress, 9 days after the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948030: Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter administers oath of office to Secretary of Navy, Col. Frank Knox. As World War 2 began in Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt organized a bi-partisan 'War Cabinet' including Republicans such as Knox in critical posts. July 11, 1940 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948005: First nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction. December 2, 1942. Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was built under the direction of physicist Enrico Fermi, in collaboration with Leo Szilard. In 1943 it was dismantled and reassembled at the Palos Park unit of the Argonne National Laboratory. The drawing is by Melvin A. Miller of the Argonne National Laboratory / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947872: People of Bikini Atoll carry their belongings down to boat. 40 families were 'temporarily' moved to Rongerik Atoll on March 7, 1946. Their displacement was permanent, because the BAKER atomic explosion and following tests, irradiated the Bikini Island, making it uninhabitable. 23 nuclear devices were detonated in the Bikini vicinity between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947932: President George W. Bush speaks to a Joint Session of Congress about the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks. Sept. 20, 2001. He stated the attacks were motivated by Al Qaeda's hatred of ' our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other' / Bridgeman Images