BUCHENWALD: View in the emergency hospital. One of the Czech doctors is leaning over a pitifully thin patient on a stretcher. He has had some kind of operation. His hips stand out from his emaciated body. He is a Hungarian Jew.

[US Marines of 1st Division marching down canyon known as Nightmare Alley during the retreat of the Changjin Reservoir after being cut off by Red Chinese forces]

Christmas in Korea: Wrecked vehicles block the road. Calmly the troops stripped them of their equipment, shoved them aside and grenaded them.

Through the mountains: Allied evacuation of Hungnam, Korea

Pile of bones, Buchenwald

[Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner (left, with pipe) inspecting bunny costumes on women lined up in front of him, during a rehearsal in his mansion]

[Duke Ellington at piano, Dizzy Gillespie (fore, 2L) on trumpet and behind him Mezz Mezzrow on clarinet, surrounded by other unidentified musicians during jam session in studio of LIFE photographer Gjon Mili]

[Night bombing pattern created by a large incendiary bomb hit by flak over enemy territory]