Ben Cosgrove

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  • Jun 6, 2023
    Ask a dozen military historians to name the single most pivotal battle or campaign of World War II the one operation that saw the war’s momentum irrevocably swing from the Axis...
  • Apr 20, 2023
    We do not usually give so much space to the work of men we admire so little. So began a remarkable editor's note to LIFE's readers in an April 1970 issue of the magazine, introducing...
  • Apr 12, 2023
    Some photographs are so much of their time that, as years pass, they acquire an air of genuine authority about an event, a person, a place and even, perhaps, an air of inevitability....
  • Apr 4, 2023
    On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in...