Marine Capt. Ike Fenton, Nakdong River Perimeter, No-Name Ridge, South Korea

David Douglas Duncan, a native of Kansas City, was the most acclaimed photographer of the Korean War. Having spent three years with the Marines in World War II, Duncan went to Korea with both combat experience and a deep understanding of the ordinary man in uniform. As a result, his images are always profoundly human; they depict real courage and devotion to duty, but are not "heroic" in any traditional way. Instead, Duncan recorded young Americans in an alien and threatening world-men who are frequently lonely, miserably hot or cold, and dazed with exhaustion.