By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 20, 2013
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June, 1985: Spectators at the Ramstein Flugtag air show get a close look at a German Navy Tornado jet as it passes overhead on a demonstration flight.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 19, 2013
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Zakho, Iraq, May, 1991: A Kurdish woman carries pillows, blankets and other household goods as she arrives at a refugee camp in northern Iraq. Allied troops were working to repatriate an estimated 200,000 people still in the mountains bordering Turkey, where they sought refuge during Saddam Hussein's brutal campaign against the Kurds in the wake of the Gulf War.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 18, 2013
Vince Crawley © Stars and Stripes
Southern Iraq, February, 1991: Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) rockets are fired toward Iraqi military units at dusk during Operation Desert Storm. In the foreground is a soldier from Iron Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 17, 2013
John Olson ©Stars and Stripes
Hue, South Vietnam, February, 1968: As his platoon leader and a radio operator press into the rubble for cover, a U.S. Marine fires back at a North Vietnamese sniper during fighting in the Citadel at Hue.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 16, 2013
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Darmstadt, Germany, 1954: Sunlight breaks through the morning fog and lights the way for a Volkswagen on a rural German road between Darmstadt and Dieburg.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 15, 2013
©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, March, 1962: Jo, a chimpanzee from Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, is all dressed up in a cowboy suit — complete with six-shooter — for his meeting with Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako. At left are an unidentified trainer and zoo director Tadamichi Koga. The emperor and empress were helping the zoo celebrate its 80th anniversary.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 14, 2013
Chet King ©Stars and Stripes
Osan Air Base, South Korea, June, 1980: A C-141B, the stretched version of the Starlifter transport plane, stands parked at Osan Air Base after its first non-stop flight across the Pacific.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 13, 2013
Wallace Beene ©Stars and Stripes
Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, September, 1966: Col. Levi Chase, commander of the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, speaks at a ceremony marking his return from the 500th fighter mission of a military career that spanned three wars — World War II, Korea and Vietnam — and 25 years. He flew 12 more missions before calling it quits, and retired as a major general in 1973.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1966 story about Col. Levi Chase's milestone.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 12, 2013
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Torrejon Air Base, Spain, May, 1964: Actress Ann-Margret, visiting Torrejon Air Base during a break in the filming of "The Pleasure Seekers," doesn't seem to be convinced that putting on a flight helmet is a good idea.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1964 story about Ann-Margret at Torrejon.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 11, 2013
Gene Bane ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, January, 1960: A technician works amid the memory units inside a Sperry Rand Univac computer. The room-sized collection of consoles, spools of tape and stacks of punch cards seems primitive by today's technological standards, but was state of the art in the 1950s.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 10, 2013
Gary Cooper ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, September, 1966: An armored personnel carrier is about to serve as a makeshift tow truck for a Jeep mired in deep mud during the tail end of the rainy season in the Pleiku area.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 9, 2013
Raymond J. Denis ©Stars and Stripes
Kawasaki, Japan, November, 1971: Golf great Arnold Palmer is followed by a platoon from the Japanese branch of Arnie's Army as he walks up the fairway during the Rolex Watch Classic at the Kawasaki Kokusai Country Club. Palmer finished second in the two-day tournament, with Japan's Tadashi Kitta winning by a single stroke to take home $3,000, a Rolex ... and the Arnold Palmer Trophy.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 8, 2013
©Stars and Stripes
Griesheim, West Germany, August, 1953: Bing Crosby poses with his new $8,250 (over $70,000 in today's prices) Mercedes in the Stars and Stripes parking lot. The crooner picked up the car in Stuttgart and visited the newspaper office on his way to Frankfurt, where he played some golf.
RELATED MATERIAL:
A story about Bing Crosby's visit to Germany.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 7, 2013
John Bohmer ©Stars and Stripes
Ramstein Air Base, Germany, October, 1992: Tennis star Steffi Graf awaits a flight in an F-16D Fighting Falcon jet from the U.S. Air Force's 526th Fighter Squadron at Ramstein. With Lt. Col. Steven Teske at the controls, the world's second-ranked women's player enjoyed an hour-long ride over her hometown of Brühl (near Heidelberg) and the Rhine and Moselle river valleys. "She is obviously in extremely good shape," Teske said. "We did about an eight-G turn and she didn't even blink."
RELATED MATERIAL:
A story about Steffi Graf's 1992 flight.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 6, 2013
Ted Rohde ©Stars and Stripes
St. Laurent-sur-Mer, France, June 6, 1964: Jets fly over the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy that gave Allied forces a foothold on the European continent.
RELATED MATERIAL:
A 1964 story about how the invasion developed.
A 1964 story about two D-Day veterans' first trip back to the invasion beaches.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 5, 2013
Sandy Colton ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, 1959: Student pilots from the Republic of Vietnam Air Force fly in formation in their T-6 training aircraft. Cadets at the air academy, based in Nha Trang, were trained by U.S. Air Force pilots; top finishers in the program were to be sent to the U.S. after graduation for further training.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 4, 2013
Jack Fuller ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, August, 1970: Vice President Spiro Agnew watches as his South Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Cao Ky, pins a medal on a 1st Cavalry Division soldier during a ceremony at Tan Son Nhut Air Base.
RELATED MATERIAL:
A 1970 story about Agnew's trip to Southeast Asia.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 3, 2013
© Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, December, 1962: Bob Hope and Lana Turner board a helicopter at Hardy Barracks for a flight to Tachikawa Air Base, where Hope's troupe was to perform the first show of its Far East tour.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 2, 2013
Lem Robson ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, November, 1992: A stray baseball drifts between Seattle Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., and the camera during warmups for an exhibition game between all-star teams from the U.S. and Japan. The touring American major leaguers won six games in the series while losing one and tying another.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: June 1, 2013
©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, May, 1961: Comedian Allan Sherman poses with a couple of flight attendants after arriving in Frankfurt for a European tour. Sherman was a television producer who entertained his friends (including George Burns and neighbor Harpo Marx) with song parodies; at their urging, and with their help, he began a recording career that featured such hits as "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh."
