[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]

[Aerial view of bomb-damaged harbor with its docks and assembly plants after an allied air attack on this devastated city]