By Joe Gromelski
Published: February 4, 2012
Ed Reavis ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, September 8, 1980: Comedian and activist Dick Gregory waits at the Frankfurt airport's ticket counter as he prepares to return to Boston for emergency dental work. Gregory had been in Iran on a 4½-month hunger strike aimed at convincing the Ayatollah Khomeini's government to release the American hostages.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: February 3, 2012
Jim Derheim ©Stars and Stripes
Garlstedt, Germany, May 9, 1991: Spec. Tim Scott is welcomed home from the Gulf War by his girlfriend, Spec. Patty Martinez. More than 1,000 soldiers returned to Lucius D. Clay Casern from the Middle East that day.
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By Joe Gromelski
Published: February 2, 2012
Norm Zeisloft ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, February 26, 1963: Jesse Owens ponders a question during an interview with Stars and Stripes. A previous visit to Germany, in 1936, was a high point in the career of the track and field champion, who publicly shredded Adolf Hitler's claims of Aryan superiority by breaking two world records, tying another and teaming up for a gold in the 400-meter relay at the Berlin Olympics.
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By Joe Gromelski
Published: February 1, 2012
Frank Praytor ©Stars and Stripes
Seoul, Korea, 1953: Children play among the wreckage of buildings in war-torn Seoul.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: January 31, 2012
John Olson ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, September, 1967: Two U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division open fire during Operation Swift. The Marines were searching for the 2nd North Vietnamese Army Division in the Ky Son Valley, south of Da Nang.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: January 30, 2012
Timothy Baker ©Stars and Stripes
Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 25, 1998: As the sun sets into the fog below Hill 722, Pfc. Alex Longoria of Company C, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment trudges through the snow on his patrol around the hill's perimeter. Longoria, based at Camp McGovern, was assigned to a week of force protection duty.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: January 29, 2012
Juanito Pardico ©Stars and Stripes
Quezon City, Philippines, June 24, 1967: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos tries out a payloader, one of 312 pieces of heavy equipment just given to his government by the United States, at Camp Aguinaldo.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: January 28, 2012
©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, January 28, 1957: Bishop Martin Niemoeller speaks to 200 members of the 3rd Armored Division at the Edwards Casern chapel. As head of the Pastors' Emergency League in Germany in the 1930s, Niemoeller — a World War I U-boat officer who initially supported the Nazis because they opposed communism — so angered Hitler with his sermons against government attempts to control the churches that he was sent to concentration camps for eight years. In a face-to-face confrontation, he told Hitler, "We pastors have a responsibility for the German people laid on us by God. Neither you nor anyone else can take that away from us."
By Joe Gromelski
Published: January 27, 2012
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Pointe du Hoc, France, June 6, 1984: Bundled up against the Normandy coastal cold, five-year-old Alexander Poutaraud, a local resident, tries to get a glimpse of D-Day 40th anniversary ceremonies from between the boots of soldiers.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: January 26, 2012
Red Grandy / ©Stars and Stripes
Vienna, Austria, April 28, 1951: Robert Vogeler gets a hug from his wife, Lucille, as he gains his freedom after 527 days in captivity in Hungary. Vogeler, an ITT executive, was arrested on espionage charges in December, 1949; his captivity resulted in several retaliatory moves by the U.S., including the closing of Hungarian consulates in two cities and a ban on travel by Americans to the Eastern Bloc country. Resourceful photographer Red Grandy — just beginning a storied 35-year career at Stars and Stripes — had befriended the Vogelers and their security guards in the days preceding the release, and was ready for the big moment. The photo was widely published, and was judged the second-best of the year by the Associated Press — second only to another Grandy photo. Red Grandy will celebrate his 90th birthday today, January 26, 2012, at his home in rural Hermon, N.Y.
