By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 31, 2011
©Stars and Stripes
Di An, Vietnam, July 30, 1969: National security adviser Henry Kissinger catches up on his reading and President Richard Nixon gives instructions as they wait for their helicopter to take off. Nixon was visiting U.S. troops from the 1st Infantry Division on what was his only visit to Vietnam as president.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 30, 2011
Charles Dees ©Stars and Stripes
Heidelberg, Germany, May 28, 1972: Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, in Heidelberg to speak at the University of Maryland European division's commencement ceremonies, talks to reporters at the Europa Hotel. Among her topics was America's divorce rate, which she said was high "because we ask impossible things of young parents. We take young people too young to be parents and tuck them into a strange suburb and make them responsible for everything,"
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' story about Margaret Mead's press conference.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 29, 2011
©Stars and Stripes
Yokota Air Base, Japan, October, 1997: Patricia Stark, accompanied by Kousuke Tsukamoto of hte Fussa City Fire Department, is lowered from the sixth floor of Naha Towers on a ladder-mounted sled during a Fire Safety Week rescue demonstration. Next to be "rescued" was Stark's husband, Lt. Col. Steven Stark of the 374th Civil Engineering Squadron.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 28, 2011
Brent Johnston ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, May, 1992: A youngster ventures away from the crowded bleacher seats toward the wide-open (but forbidden) spaces of the reserved section during a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 27, 2011
Shigemasa Nagai ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, October, 1964: Japan's Yukio Endo competes on the horizontal bar during the Olympic Games. Endo won individual gold medals in the all-around and parallel bars and a silver in the floor exercises in 1964, and added three more golds as a member of Japanese championship teams in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Games.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 26, 2011
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Sembach, Germany, September, 1965: Rhine-Main's Carl Clay (25) soars through the air after being upended by Sembach's Dempsey Mitchell (80) on a punt return during a USAFE Continental Conference football game. Clay had already gained 22 yards on the play, and was heading for the end zone when Mitchell stopped him. Rhein-Main won the game, 31-13.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 25, 2011
John Olson ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, January, 1968: A 1st Cavalry soldier shouts to his comrades during fighting in the Que Son Valley, 35 miles from Da Nang.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 24, 2011
Ken George ©Stars and Stripes
Brussels, Belgium, April, 1996: U.S. Army Gen. John Shalikashvili discusses the NATO peace mission in Bosnia at a news conference in Brussels, where he was attending a meeting of the alliance's senior military panel. The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, who would visit Bosnia later in the week, said NATO would not cut its troop strength in the Balkans in the next five months, citing the need for a secure environment for upcoming elections. Shalikashvili, who retired from the military in 1997, died July 23, 2011, at age 75.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' story about Gen. Shalikashviliu's 1996 visit to Bosnia
Gen. Shalikashvili's obituary from Los Angeles Times.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 23, 2011
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Over England, June 18, 1959: Royal Air Force F6 Hawker Hunter jets from the "Black Arrows" aerobatic team of 111 squadron, as photographed by Stars and Stripes' Red Grandy from Flight Lt. Patrick B. Hine's plane during a practice flight. Hine later served as joint commander of British forces during the Gulf War; most recently, he has been Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1959 story about the RAF "Black Arrows" aerobatic team.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 22, 2011
John Olson ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, December, 1967: An armored troop carrier is silhouetted against the sun on the My Tho River, 65 miles southwest of Saigon, where Americans from the 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Riverine Force and South Vietnamese from the 5th Vietnamese Marine Battalion were engaged in a day-long battle that ended with 235 Viet Cong reported killed.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 21, 2011
Chung Tae Won ©Stars and Stripes
Seoul, South Korea, November, 1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong stand before the crowd of spectators that greeted them during their hour-long parade from Kimpo International Airport to Seoul's City Hall. The heroes of the mission that resulted in the first lunar landing four months earlier were touring the Far East as special envoys of President Nixon.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 20, 2011
Andrew Headland Jr. ©Stars and Stripes
Keelung, Taiwan, November, 1965: Co-stars Steve McQueen and Candice Bergen on location during the filming of "The Sand Pebbles," in which McQueen played a Navy machinist's mate and Bergen a schoolteacher. The movie is set in Shanghai in the 1920s.
RELATED MATERIAL:
An interview with Candice Bergen during the filming of "The Sand Pebbles."
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 19, 2011
Chung Tae-won ©Stars and Stripes
South Korea, June, 1976: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali watches a martial arts demonstration during his visit with 2nd Infantry Division troops at Recreation Center 4, about 20 miles north of Seoul. At left is Brig, Gen. Thomas D. Ayers, assistant commander of the 2nd ID. Ali, who had recently earned $6 million for a boxing-wrestling match against Antonio Inoki in Tokyo, was greeted by thousands of Koreans who lined his motorcade route from the airport to Seoul.
RELATED MATERIAL:
A story about Muhammad Ali's 1976 visit with the troops in South Korea.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 18, 2011
Timothy Baker ©Stars and Stripes
Camp Bedrock, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December, 1998: A traditional-style steeple lends a special touch to a tent serving as the chapel at Camp Bedrock, a facility in the Tuzla area.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 17, 2011
©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, September, 1951: Dr. Albert Schweitzer, foreground, and West German President Theodor Heuss, left, listen as the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair awards Schweitzer the German book publishers' peace prize. The noted philosopher, medical doctor, humanitarian, missionary spent most of the last 40 years of his life in French Equatorial Africa, where he founded a hospital and a leper colony. Among his other awards were the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize and Britain's Order of Merit.
RELATED MATERIAL:
A story about Albert Schweitzer receiving the publishers' peace prize.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 16, 2011
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Germany, July, 1961: Students on a large raft cheer as they ride down the sluiceway past a lock on the Isar River. The European Huck Finns were en route from Wolfsrathausen to Munich.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 15, 2011
David Warsh ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, April 8, 1969: A soldier soothes his aching foot after returning to Patrol Base Diamond II, near the Cambodian border about 35 miles from Saigon. The base, manned by the 25th Infantry Division, withstood several communist attacks in the early part of April.
RELATED MATERIAL:
A Stars and Stripes story about an April 5, 1969, attack on Patrol Base Diamond II.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 14, 2011
Jim Cole ©Stars and Stripes
Paris, February 28, 1969: A vendor offers U.S. and French flags to spectators awaiting the arrival of President Richard Nixon's motorcade in Paris. Nixon's visit to the city came near the end of a European trip that had already featured stops in Belgium, Germany, England and Italy; he went on to meet with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican before returning home.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 13, 2011
Gerald Waller ©Stars and Stripes
Strasbourg, France, August, 1949: British foreign secretary and Labour Party stalwart Ernest Bevin awaits the start of an early session of the new European Assembly at Strasbourg University. The experimental parliament's biggest booster was Winston Churchill, who envisioned "a kind of United States of Europe."
RELATED MATERIAL:
A wire service story about the European Assembly meeting
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 12, 2011
Ken George ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, February, 1982: A Tokyo firefighter assesses the situation while battling a blaze at the 10-story Hotel New Japan in the city's Akasaka district. The death toll in the fire reached 33, and the hotel's owner, billionaire Hideki Yokoi, was found guilty of negligence and sent to prison.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read two Stars and Stripes stories about the fire:
At least 24 die, 33 hurt in Tokyo hotel blaze
Air Force wife describes 6-floor jump in hotel fire
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 11, 2011
Diane S. Lundholm ©Stars and Stripes
Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August, 1997: Tech. Sgt. Mike Mansfield hated to see water bottles just thrown away, and he needed a "stress reliever," so he combined the two thoughts and put together this model of the space shuttle and seven other sculptures using only water bottle parts, no tape or glue.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 10, 2011
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Wetzlar, Germany, April, 1979: Water flies as a diamond-studded, high-speed saw blade prepares to cut into a block of glass at the Ernst Leitz optical firm's Wetzlar plant. The company began producing Leica cameras and Leitz lenses, recognized as some of the finest in the world, in the early part of the 20th century.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1979 story about the Ernst Leitz optical factory.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 9, 2011
Dave Didio ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, April, 1980: Controversial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche talks to a reporter at Wiesbaden, the city where he and his wife, German activist Helga Zepp, were married three years earlier.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 8, 2011
L. Emmett Lewis Jr. ©Stars and Stripes
Worms, Germany, June, 1983: Dr. Henry Kissinger appears to be deep in thought during a ceremony marking 300 years of German emigration to the U.S. In his speech at the event, the former secretary of state — one of those emigrants — urged the Germans not to weaken the U.S. government position in Geneva disarmament talks with the Soviets by considering unilateral disarmament.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' story about Henry Kissinger's 1983 speech at Worms.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 7, 2011
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Berlin, September, 1961: A Soviet soldier casts a defiant look back as his armored vehicle passes through Checkpoint Charlie, the best-known crossing point between East and West Berlin during the years of the Berlin Wall. The vehicle was part of a convoy bringing guards to the Soviet War Memorial, located in the western sector near the Brandenburg Gate.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 6, 2011
Robert Merritt ©Stars and Stripes
Germany, October 27, 1947: Ever-present cigar in mouth, Lt. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, the new commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, gets a report during an informal eight-hour tour of bases in Berlin and Bremen.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1947 story about Gen. Curtis LeMay's tour of bases in Germany.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 5, 2011
©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, April 25, 1967: Capt. Thomas B. Mannix of B Company, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, radios his other platoons into position during a mission to round up North Vietnamese suspects in Hau Nghia province.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1967 story, "Eagle flights prey on fleeing Viet Cong."
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 4, 2011
Ron Alvey ©Stars and Stripes
Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, January, 1998: Senior Airman Thomas Wright, left, relaxes for a few minutes with a game of computer solitaire as Tech. Sgt. Hector Rivera checks his e-mail at the Rock City Media Center on Tuzla Air Base. Four computers hooked up to the Internet enabled members of the 401st Expeditionary Air Base Group to stay in contact with family and friends as the days of long waits for news from home receded into the past.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 3, 2011
Lloyd Borguss ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, January, 1972: St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson demonstrates bunting technique during a USAFE baseball clinic at Wiesbaden Air Base. It's likely that few in the audience would have volunteered to step in and try it against him, though — the future Hall of Famer was so disdainful of batters in general and protective of his turf (home plate) that he once told a hitter who was digging into the batter's box at length that he should continue digging to the six-foot level. Gibson wasn't a bad hitter at all, finishing his 17-year career with 24 home runs and an average over .200.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Read two Stripes stories about the USAFE clinic:
Gibson: Having a black manager in majors 'way overdue'
Gibson, Bench, Reichle sparkle at USAFE clinic quiz session
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 2, 2011
Andrew Headland, Jr. © Stars and Stripes
Pacific Ocean, March, 1966: Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek peers out from the bridge of the USS Enterprise during a visit to the American aircraft carrier in the seas off Taiwan.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' story about Chiang Kai-shek's 1966 visit to the USS Enterprise.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 1, 2011
Phil McCombs ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, November, 1969: A n artilleryman takes a much-needed break at the Bu Prang Special Forces Camp.
