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$500 first-place winner Tank crew members enjoy a moment of relief after surviving a 120 mm mortar round that eliminated the entrance to their bunker on Hill 851 on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea in June 1952. Submitted by Col. Peter W. Cuthbert, USAR (Ret), Life Member

Camaraderie

$100 second-place winner Members of the Coalition Provisional Authority staff watch It’s a Wonderful Life projected on a whiteboard in Saddam Hussein’s for- mer presidential palace in Baghdad, Iraq, Christmas Eve 2003. The next morning, the staff was subjected to an hours-long rocket and mortar attack. Submitted by Lt. Col. Michael M. Pierson, USAF (Ret)

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$50 third-place winner Members of the 6718th Women’s Army Corps Headquarters Platoon are pictured in 1944 in Caserta, Italy, where they served until demobiliza- tion in October 1945. Submitted by Cmdr. Donald R. Brady, USN (Ret)

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