Flight deck crew of the USS Lexington drag an aircraft with a flat tire off the runway to make room for another inbound plane, 1942. Edward Steichen photo.
Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:
Still from the D.W. Griffith film, "Intolerance," 1916.
The enemy increaseth every day;
President Lyndon Johnson listens to a tape recording sent by his son-in-law, then serving in South Vietnam, during the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, March 1968.
We, at the height, are ready to decline.
Adolph Hitler, far left, served as a runner in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment during WWI. He is shown here in a shelter on the Western Front.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
US troops in France during WWI line up at the disinfecting station for their turn in a bath, a dash of Lysol-like disinfecting cleanser, and a fresh set of clothing. 1918.
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;
Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams, age 22, pictured in 1941. His batting average for the season, his third in the majors, never fell below .400.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Fulton Fish Market, New York, 1952.
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
San Antonio rodeo contestant falls off a steer in the wild cow riding contest, c. 1930. Erwin E. Smith photo.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
Saturday night jitterbugging, 1939. Marion Post Wolcott photo.
And we must take the current when it serves,
Members of the "Dirty Thirteen" apply war paint on June 5, 1944, in preparation for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The group was an elite sabateur demolition unit of the 101st Airborne Division, whose D-Day mission involved the destruction of bridges behind enemy lines in advance of the beach landings. The men's paint and haircut honor the Choctaw Tribe of Oklahoma, the heritage of one of the group's members.
Or lose our ventures.
Whitehall Street, Atlanta's central business district, 1864.
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