By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 30, 2011
©Stars and Stripes
Japan, July, 1964: Orchards and a track used by student drivers combine to create an interesting effect in an aerial photo of the Tokyo area.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 29, 2011
Ken George ©Stars and Stripes
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 24, 1997: Family members and friends light candles at the spot in the heart of Tuzla where, two years earlier, a large shell slammed into the Tuzla district, killing 71 people. An estimated 12,000 people took part in the anniversary commemoration.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 28, 2011
Teruhiko Kikuchi ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, April, 1966: Moe Howard of the Three Stooges talks with Stars and Stripes reporter Hal Drake at the Imperial Hotel. Howard, on a vacation trip around the world with his wife, was 68 years old and still performing his finger-poking, face-slapping act, but hinted that retirement was looming. "The public can't see old people cracking each other," he said. "They'll wind up feeling sorry for us. We work hard to be funny. We want people to laugh at us, not pity us."
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read the 1966 Stars and Stripes interview with Moe Howard of the Three Stooges.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 27, 2011
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Barce, Libya, February 21, 1963: Fear and fatigue show on the faces of survivors young and old after an earthquake in Barce, Libya. Hundreds of people were killed in the quake, which leveled most of the town.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 26, 2011
©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, September, 1963: Boston Celtics forward and future Basketball Hall of Famer Tommy Heinsohn demonstrates a move during a USAFE basketball clinic.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a 1963 story about Tommy Heinsohn at the 1963 USAFE basketball clinic.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 25, 2011
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Flushing Meadows, New York, 1964: Monorails and cities of the future are one thing, but these two young visitors to the New York World's Fair just don't seem ready to accept the idea of a large talking dog.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 24, 2011
Ron Alvey ©Stars and Stripes
Camp Colt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August, 1997: Sgt. John Ravanelli of 1st Military Police Co., 1st Division, deployed from Würzburg, Germany, changes a transmission oil pan gasket on a Humvee.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 23, 2011
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, March 1, 1960: Sgt. Elvis Presley talks to a reporter at the Rhein-Main airport as he prepares to board a flight for his return to the U.S. and the end of his Army service.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 22, 2011
Dave Didio ©Stars and Stripes
Denmark, May, 1990: A fly fisherman casts for trout in a quiet river near Skjern, Denmark.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 21, 2011
Anita Gosch ©Stars and Stripes
Rotterdam, Netherlands, June, 1988: Bruce Springsteen follows the lead of saxophonist Clarence Clemons during a "Tunnel of Love Express" tour show at Rotterdam's Feyenoord Stadium. Clemons, a major cog in Springsteen's E Street Band since 1972, died June 18, 2011, at age 69.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 20, 2011
John Russ ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, December 1951: Singer Frank Sinatra and his wife, actress Ava Gardner, sing "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" during Hollywood's "Surprise Package" show at the Camp Lindsey gymnasium. In addition to newlyweds Sinatra and Gardner, those on hand for the show — one of several scheduled on a tour of U.S. bases in Germany — included another husband-and-wife team, actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, and actress Rhonda Fleming.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a 1951 story about Frank Sinatra and the other stars at Wiesbaden.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 19, 2011
Russ Havourd ©Stars and Stripes
Seoul, South Korea, October, 1966: President Lyndon B. Johnson mingles with the crowd after arriving at Kimpo International Airport. LBJ was on his way to Seoul's City Hall Plaza, where a crowd estimated at 250,000 people was waiting to hear him speak.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a story about President Johnson's visit to Seoul.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 18, 2011
Gerald Waller ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, June 30, 1948: A worker at the Rhein-Main airport secures sacks of flour loaded onto a plane for shipment to blockaded Berlin during the first week of the Berlin airlift.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 17, 2011
Gerard Forken ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, October 17, 1967: Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division sit atop a bunker at their headquarters and fire base near Pleiku in South Vietnam's Central Highlands. "There was nothing but trees here when we first earmarked the site," said Capt. Terence M. Bell, Delta Company's commander. "It took three tons of explosives to clear the base, and we still have much clearing to do."
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 16, 2011
Ken Schultz ©Stars and Stripes
Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, October 4, 1971: Members of the Army ground crew at Tay Ninh load rockets onto a Cobra helicopter during an effort to combat stepped-up communist activity near the Cambodian border.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a 1971 story about the ground crew at Tay Ninh.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 15, 2011
Ken George ©Stars and Stripes
Camp Bedrock, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September, 1997: Army Maj. Brian Wade launches a "divot" with a mighty golf shot from a helicopter pad at Camp Bedrock. Wade and many others at the base were able to improve their game through lessons given by golf pro Sgt. Mark Flitton, a reservist from Seattle.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 14, 2011
Vince Crawley ©Stars and Stripes
Saudi Arabia, 1991: An American servicemember in the Saudi desert tends a burning trash pit.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 13, 2011
Allen Schaefer ©Stars and Stripes
Near Quang Tri City, South Vietnam, July 7, 1972: South Vietnamese soldiers walk past the shell-damaged La Vang Cathedral. The troops were in the midst of an attempt to retake Quang Tri City from the North Vietnamese, who had seized it two months earlier.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 12, 2011
John Olson ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, November, 1967: Spec. 4 Nicholas Rossi of Westmont, N.J., waits out a rainstorm beneath a plastic cover at the 2/27th, 25th Infantry Division command post northwest of Cu Chi, in South Vietnam's Iron Triangle.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 11, 2011
Gerald Waller ©Stars and Stripes
Stuttgart, Germany, October 24, 1948: Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt smiles as she leaves one of the stops on her inspection tour of postwar Germany. Mrs. Roosevelt visited a German refugee settlement, as well as two camps and a vocational center for displaced persons, in the Stuttgart area.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a story about Eleanor Roosevelt's press conference in Stuttgart.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 10, 2011
Alfred Morrissey ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, May 17, 1949: Among the travelers arriving at the Rhein-Main airport is Chico Marx, best known for his movie escapades with brothers Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo. The piano-playing comedian was starting a five-day tour in which he and a group of English entertainers performed at military bases in West Germany and Berlin. As one would expect from one of the Marx Brothers, he wrote in the Rhein-Main VIP register that his rank was "vertical," that he came from "any place where there's a dame" and that his destination was "hell."
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a 1949 story about Chico Marx's arrival in Germany.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 9, 2011
Harold China ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, October, 1981: Future Hall of Famer George Brett checks out a couple of the bats that made pitchers' lives miserable as he relaxes at Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium. Brett and his Kansas City Royals teammates were preparing for a 17-game exhibition tour of Japan.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a 1981 story about the Royals' preparations for their tour of Japan.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 8, 2011
©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, June, 1959: Actor Jack Lemmon, left, and director Billy Wilder arrive in Germany on a publicity tour for their latest film, "Some Like It Hot," which also stars Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a 1959 story about Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder in Germany.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 7, 2011
Erik Gudmundson ©Stars and Stripes
Bosnia and Herzegovina, March 20, 1998: Staff Sgt. Wes Rehm and Spec. Stephen Mitchell carefully lower the American flag to Spec. Oliver Buck and Sgt. 1st Class Lance Lehr during a ceremony marking the closing of Checkpoint Sierra 10, near Camp Dobol. The checkpoint, in the zone of separation between the Muslim-Croatian federation and Republika Srpska, was used as a meeting place for people from both sides as well as an observation post for SFOR troops.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 6, 2011
Ted Rohde ©Stars and Stripes
Friedberg, Germany, June 25, 1964: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy watches a tactical show at the Friedberg training area as he begins a three-day visit to bases in Germany. With him are Capt. Norman L. Carlton, left, V Corps Long Range Recon Patrol Co. commanding officer, and Lt. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., V Corps commanding general, who has just been nominated as Army vice chief of staff. Abrams later served as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and as Army chief of staff.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a story about Robert Kennedy's 1964 visit to Friedberg.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 5, 2011
Merle Hunter ©Stars and Stripes
Paris, October, 1955: While Ciroen's DS19 was drawing the big crowds of people checking out the new 1956 models at the Paris Auto Show, tucked away in a less-populated area was German designer Egon Brutsch's tiny, egg-shaped, two-seat (to be generous) Avolette microcar.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 4, 2011
Joe Wesley ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, January 21, 1971: Singing cowboy Tex Ritter talks to a reporter at the beginning of his tour of U.S. military bases in Europe. Ritter and his musical sidemen, the Boll Weevils, had just finished performing in the Far East, including Vietnam. Tex Ritter was the father of one actor, John, and the grandfather of another, Jason.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read Stars and Stripes' 1971 story about Tex Ritter.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 3, 2011
Ken George ©Stars and Stripes
Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September, 1997: Staff Sgt. Joseph Young of Vilseck, Germany-based Company D, 2-2 Infantry, stands guard duty near the Office of the High Representative in Brcko. Behind him is a street sign on which someone has placed a poster of fugitive Serbian wartime leader Radovan Karadzic that has a story of its own. A person involved in a lovers' triangle reportedly spotted the other two at a sidewalk cafe while driving past, and tossed a anti-personnel grenade. A fragment, blatantly ignoring the "don't touch him" command, struck directly in the middle of Karadzic's forehead. No one was injured in the incident.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 2, 2011
Joe Wesley ©Stars and Stripes
Munich, Germany, December, 1965: Robert Goulet on the set of "Blue Light," a World War II spy drama TV series being filmed in Munich. In the series — which ran for 17 episodes on ABC in 1966 — singer Goulet played David March, an American correspondent who penetrates the Nazi high command in the guise of a traitor. Four episodes of the show were later put together and released as a movie, "I Deal in Danger."
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read a story about Robert Goulet and "Blue Light."
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 1, 2011
Patrick Jackson ©Stars and Stripes
Leimen, Germany, July, 1985: Seventeen-year-old tennis star Boris Becker listens to the cheers of the crowd that greeted him on his return to his hometown after he won his first Wimbledon title by defeating Kevin Curren of the U.S. in the finals. He was the youngest player, the first unseeded player and the first German to win Wimbledon. Over the next six years, Becker would add two Wimbledon championships and finish second three times.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read the story about Boris Becker's Leimen homecoming.
