What is your favorite historical military photo?

Point Du Hoc in Normandy, France. Showing the shelling that the site received before/during the Ranger assault on D-Day.

This photo captured by TSgt Brian Christiansen.

USS Iowa BB61, sorry but who can dispute Naval Gunfire Support.

USS Missouri BB63 standing watch over the USS Arizona BB39

Her name was 'Nadezhda Popova'. She was a Russian pilot during WWII who was in a group called the "Night Witches" because their 'one-time crop dustin' planes sounded like a witches' broom during the night. Helped fight off the attack of the Nazis who ENJOYED gunning down fleeing women and children. She rose to become deputy commander of what was formally known as 588th Night Bomber Regiment. They flew at night (as previously stated), didn't have any parachutes, guns, radio or radar and dropped bombs on Nazi camps. She flew 852 missions herself. Sadly, she passed away in 2012.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>She was awarded the Gold star, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Star, and named Hero of Soviet Union, the nation's highest honor.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The First picture, Nadia is the one standing up; the second picture is when she gave her interview right before she passed away... Look at all those ribbons and medals! WOW.</div>

This photo of a dead Confederate sniper in the Devil's Den at the Battle of Gettysburg always haunted me as a young man before joining the military. It looks like he died all alone. No one came back for him. Was his death fast, or did he lay down and just pass away? Did his family ever find out what happened to him? The loneliness and ugliness&nbsp;of war for the ground soldier really comes out in this photo. It also evokes what may be the soldier's deepest, darkest, secret&nbsp;fear: if I die alone, will anybody remember me? Will anybody come back for me? Those of us in the 11B arena know why our bond is so strong.

Not a "happy" photo, but this one hit me in the gut when I first saw it in '91. Perfectly portrays to me the love brothers-in-arms have for each other and the sadness we experience when we lose one.

Don't know if this counts, but I always liked this Rough Rider action shot.

Glenn McDuffie and Edith Shain...because the end of war is always sweeter than the start of one!

One of my favorites, mainly because I walked past it every day for about five years in the Pentagon, is the WWII surrender of the Japanese on the USS Missouri. The picture, which is very close to the one I'm posting, is hanging in the seventh corridor, second floor, of the Pentagon.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/japansur/js-8.htm

This is a picture I found of the airborne insertions involved in the Operation Overlord invasion of France to free them from Nazi oppression during WWII.