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Land navigation test at Eagle Base, Bosnia, 1998

Erik Gudmundson ©Stars and Stripes
Eagle Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June, 1998: Cpl. Duane Drown and Sgt. Dwight Bradford work with fellow soldiers of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Air Defense Battery, on a timed land navigation test at Eagle Base.

USS Saratoga's flight deck at night, 1965

Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Mediterranean Sea, April, 1965: The white-hot exhaust of a departing jet leaves a trail into the sky in a time-exposure photo taken from the USS Saratoga during maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Naples, Italy.

Gen Eisenhower poses for a cameraman, 1951

©Stars and Stripes
Neubiberg Air Base, Germany, April, 1951: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, poses for a news cameraman during an inspection tour of U.S. military facilities in Bavaria.

RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1951 story about Gen. Eisenhower's visit to bases in Bavaria.

Maj. Gen. Larsen rests during a flight in Vietnam, 1965

Ray Mahon ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, November, 1965: Army Maj. Gen. Stanley R. Larsen, commander of U.S. Field Forces, Vietnam, gets a few moments of sleep on a flight from Nha Trang to Pleiku.

A message from Uncle Sam at Tay Ninh, 1968

J. Tom Graham ©Stars and Stripes
Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, October, 1968: The 41st Army Postal Unit's post office at the Tay Ninh base camp was intended to be as much like the ones back home as possible. Makeshift mail trucks, for instance, were painted in the familiar red, white and blue motif. But the "I want you" slogan on stateside post offices' Uncle Sam posters just wouldn't work in South Vietnam, so the sign out front — on which Sp4 Gilbert Johnson is putting the finishing touches — bears a slogan more suited to those already in uniform and fighting a war far from home.

RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1968 story about quality-of-life improvements at Tay Ninh.

OV-1 Mohawk over Vietnam, 1971

Dan Evans ©Stars and Stripes
Over South Vietnam, June 11, 1971: An OV-1 Mohawk reconnaissance plane from the Army's 131st Aviation Co. flies over South Vietnam's A Shau Valley. With a top speed of only about 300 miles per hour, the Mohawk's pilots were often kept busy dodging surface-to-air missiles and much faster MiG fighters.

RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1971 story about the OV-1 Mohawks.

Aftermath of deadly explosion at I.G. Farben plant in Germany, 1948

Henry Compton ©Stars and Stripes
Ludwigshafen, Germany, July, 1948: A priest walks through the evening gloom and haze caused by burning chemicals in the wreckage of the I.G. Farben factory, ready to administer the last rites as victims of an explosion that killed over 200 people are uncovered.

The Red Baron's mother, 1954

Gene Bane ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, November, 1954: Baroness Kunigunde von Richthofen, left, mother of famed German World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen — the Red Baron — talks with actress Fern Andra at the Wiesbaden American Civilian Club. Andra, accurately accused of being an American spy during the war but saved by her friendship with Kaiser Wilhelm, was later injured in a plane crash that claimed the life of the baroness' second son, Lothar.

RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1954 story about Baroness von Richthofen and Fern Andra.

Skateboarder in Japan, 1978

Scott Woodham ©Stars and Stripes
Japan, June, 1978: Seventeen-year-old George Haynes of Negai is silhouetted against the setting sun as he moves along a seawall on his skateboard.

Airboat patrol in Vietnam, 1968

Bruce McIlhaney ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, April 17, 1968: A 9th Infantry Division airboat glides through the water near Nha Be, an area said to be used by the Viet Cong in organizing attacks on Saigon. The airboats, which could travel at speeds up to 40 knots, were used in shallow waters similar to those where the boats are most commonly found, in Florida's Everglades.

 
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Past Stars and Stripes photos of the day

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