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Every war produces images often referred to as iconic. 

"iconic: adjective - - Symbolic, emblematic, or representative."

Herewith and without further ado some iconic images from various conflicts.

Red Army troops Berlin 1945 raising the Soviet flag over the German Reichstag. A shattered and apparently obliterated Berlin as a background. 

South Vietnamese National Police Chief Loan executes a captured Viet Cong terrorist. From the era of the Second Indo-China War.

Additionally from the American experience during World War Two the raising of the American flag Iwo Jima by USA Marines that most remembered and even revered.

coolbert.