Striking, Unedited Pictures That Paved The Way For History

The Infamous Post-Combat Look

This picture is one for the history books. Taken shortly after forty-eight hours of combat in an unknown region back in 1944, this US Marine is giving what is now famously dubbed the “thousand-yard stare”. Poets have used the eyes of the man in question as inspiration for capturing the troubles that war brings to the soul, and the photograph lives on all these years later thanks to modern technology.

The Infamous Post Combat Look