
22-year-old corporal Leonard Hayworth in the Korean War cries after running out of ammunition and losing most of his men, 1950. He later lost his life in combat. Photo taken by David Douglas Duncan.

William Black, known for being the youngest soldier (officially) to be wounded during the American Civil War, with his shell shattered left hand and arm in 1865.

An ARP warden comforts a crying girl during the Blitz, 1939-45.

Crying accordion player at the Franklin D. Roosevelt funeral (Warm Springs, Georgia 1945)

A protestant husband and his catholic wife were not allowed to be buried together. Here are their headstones reaching across the two cemeteries in 1888.

Abandoned Boy Holding a Stuffed Toy Animal. London 1945
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