Prizewinning Photo

A photograph of two detached North Dakota Air National Guard F-16s being flown on a combat air patrol mission over Washington after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon was selected as the first-place shot in the North American Aerospace Defense Command 50th Anniversary Photo Contest. The breach in the wall of the Pentagon created by the airliner that crashed into it on 11 September can be seen as F-16s flown by then-Maj. Brad Derrig and Maj. David Hill defend the skies over the Capitol. The photo was taken by then-SSgt. Greg L. Davis, who left the service in 2004, but was assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing, Shaw AFB, South Carolina, as the wing's photojournalist at the time.