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1942: Milton Brooks of Detroit News, for his photo Ford Strikers Riot.

1943: Frank Noel of the Associated Press, for his photo Water!

1944: Earle L. Bunker of World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), for his photo Homecoming.

1944: Frank Filan of the Associated Press, for his photo Tarawa Island.

1945: Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press, for his photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

1946: no award.

1947: Arnold Hardy, amateur photographer, Atlanta, for his photo of a woman leaping from a fire in the Winecoff Hotel (she survived), distributed by the Associated Press.

1948: Frank Cushing of Boston Traveler, for his photo Boy Gunman and Hostage.

1949: Nathaniel Fein of New York Herald-Tribune, for his photo, The Babe Bows Out, of Babe Ruth at his number retirement by the Yankees.

1950: Bill Crouch of Oakland Tribune, for his picture Near Collision at Air Show.

1951: Max Desfor of Associated Press, for his photographic coverage of the Korean War, an outstanding example of which is "Flight of Refugees across Wrecked Bridge in Korea."

1952: John Robinson and Don Ultang of the Des Moines Register for their sequence of six pictures of the Drake University-Oklahoma A & M football game of October 20, 1951, in which player Johnny Bright's jaw was broken.

1953: William M. Gallagher of the Flint (Mich.) Journal for a photo of ex-Governor Adlai Stevenson with a hole in his shoe taken during the 1952 Presidential Campaign.

1954: Mrs. Walter M. Schau, an amateur from San Anselmo, California, for snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, California, the picture being published in The Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by the Associated Press.

1955: John L. Gaunt, Jr. of the Los Angeles Times for a photo that is poignant and profoundly moving, Tragedy by the Sea, showing a young couple standing together beside an angry sea in which only a few minutes earlier their year-old son had perished.

1956: Staff of the New York Daily News for its consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is its photo Bomber Crashes in Street.

1957: Harry A. Trask of Boston Traveler for his dramatic and outstanding photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner Andrea Doria, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet only nine minutes before the ship plunged to the bottom. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)

1958: William C. Beall of the Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.) for his photograph Faith and Confidence, showing a policeman patiently reasoning with two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade.

1959: William Seaman of the Minneapolis Star for his dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.

1960: Andrew Lopez of United Press International for his series of four photographs of a corporal, formerly of Dictator Batista's army, who was executed by a Castro firing squad, the principal picture showing the condemned man receiving last rites.

1961: Yasushi Nagao of Mainichi Shimbun (Tokyo) for his photograph Tokyo Stabbing, distributed by United Press International and widely printed in American newspapers.

1962: Paul Vathis of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bureau of the Associated Press, for the photograph Serious Steps, published April 22, 1961.

1963: Hector Rondon of La Republica (Caracas, Venezuela), for his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 Venezuelan insurrection: Aid From The Padre. The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press.

1964: Robert H. Jackson of the Dallas Times-Herald, for his photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.

1965: Horst Faas of the Associated Press, for his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.

1966: Kyoichi Sawada of United Press International, for his combat photography of the war in Vietnam War during 1965.

1967: Jack R. Thornell of Associated Press New Orleans bureau for his picture of the shooting of James Meredith in Mississippi by a roadside rifleman.