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On this day in LIFE Magazine… One Ride With Yankee Papa 13

Over the decades, of course, LIFE published dozens of photo essays by some of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. Very few of those essays, however, managed to combine raw intensity and technical brilliance to such powerful effect as “One Ride With Yankee Papa 13” — widely regarded as the single greatest photographic achievement to emerge from the war in Vietnam.

On this cover: A mortally wounded comrade at his feet, Lance Cpl. James C. Farley, helicopter crew chief, yells to his pilot while in flight after a firefight in Vietnam, 1965.

See photos from this essay here.

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Tubular Cloud Rolls Toward Horizon

A photo taken near Brazil captures a rare and beautiful “roll cloud,” a tubular cloud that seems to tumble across the sky.

Roll clouds are a type of arcus cloud, which is a category of low cloud formations. Their more common cousin is the shelf cloud, often seen on the leading edges of thunderstorms. Roll clouds sometimes form along with storms, too, born out of the storm’s downdraft. Sinking cold air causes warm, moist air on the planet’s surface to climb to higher altitudes, where the moisture condenses into cloud form. Winds from the storm “roll” the cloud parallel to the horizon, creating an effect that looks much like a horizontal tornado. Unlike shelf clouds, rolls clouds are completely detached from the bulk of the storm. (Gallery of Curious Clouds)

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photo by Capt. Andreas M. van der Wurff

A man visits his former home, damaged during the siege of the coastal city Sirte. This part of the city, known as a stronghold of Qaddafi loyalists, was heavily damaged in the fighting. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency

A burnt out car is seen at a compound after fighting erupted between Libyan National Guard Brigade 28 and local protesters in Bani Walid. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency

A house burns down in Tamina, Libya. Many homes of those considered to be Qaddafi loyalists were and continue to be burned down, leaving many with no place to live. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency

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Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie (center) moves to try and comfort a stricken comrade after a fierce firefight during the Vietnam War.

Photographed for an essay that ran in the October 28, 1966, issue of LIFE, this Larry Burrows picture — now regarded as one of the handful of utterly indispensable images from the war — did not appear in the magazine until February 1971.

(see more photos here)

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Photographs from Fukushima

Last week we wrote about Japan’s Memory Salvage Project, a beautiful volunteer initiative that seeks to restore some of the 750,000 found photographs collected in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.

If you’re in New York next month, Aperture is exhibiting some of the images as part of a show that started in Japan and then moved to Los Angeles.

In an interview with the New Yorker, project lead Munemasa Takahashi explains:

After the disaster occurred, the first thing the people who lost their loved ones and houses came to look for was their photographs. Only humans take moments to look back at their pasts, and I believe photographs play a big part in that. This exhibit makes us think of what we have lost, and what we still have to remember about our past.

The photographs will be on display at the Aperture Foundation from April 2 through April 27.

A collection of weapons in the house of Mohammed Ali Sheh, 26, who fought and was injured in Misurata, Libya.

Men mourn and pray at the the funeral of a soldier killed during the clashes in Bani Walid. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency

The devastated town of Tawargha, roughly 40 miles south of Misurata. The town, which had an estimated population of 31,250 people, is now empty. It’s people having either fled or been killed, amid reports that those remaining are being killed as they try to find food and water. Davide Monteleone/VII Photo Agency