By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 22, 2013
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Mediterranean Sea, April, 1970: A USS Forrestal catapult switch operator ducks as an F4 Phantom jet makes its two-second run up to 150 mph during the carrier's eighth Mediterranean deployment.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1970 story about the USS Forrestal's flight operations.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 20, 2013
Lloyd Borguss ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, April, 1958: Airman 3rd Class Gus Backus entertains patients and fellow workers at the 7100th Air Force Hospital with some lunchtime music. While he was stationed in Pittsburgh, Backus and his group, the Del-Vikings, hit it big with their single, "Come Go With Me." After leaving the Air Force, Backus stayed in Germany, where he is still a fan favorite.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1958 story about Gus Backus.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 20, 2013
Red Grandy © Stars and Stripes
Berlin, February, 1954: The once-vibrant but now war-scarred Unter der Linden in Berlin's Eastern sector is quiet as soldiers await the arrival of a motorcade during a foreign ministers' conference.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 19, 2013
Jack Baird © Stars and Stripes
Saigon, South Vietnam, December 11, 1965: A fisherman on a sampan in Saigon Harbor tends his nets.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 18, 2013
Chet King ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, October 23, 1980: Rev. Billy Graham makes a point as he preaches to 20,000 people at Korakuen Stadium during his Tokyo crusade.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 17, 2013
©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, April, 1962: Frank Sinatra laughs as U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer presents him with a card bearing the singer-actor's name in Japanese characters. Sinatra was in the Far East for a series of charity performances to aid underprivileged children.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 16, 2013
Shigemasa Nagai ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, November, 1974: Thirteen-year-old Haruhiko Murase salutes after presenting President (and Eagle Scout) Gerald Ford with the Golden Pheasant Award on behalf of Japanese Boy Scouts at Akasaka Palace.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 15, 2013
Lee Pearlman ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, August, 1956: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney, in Japan for two weeks of sightseeing and personal business, autographs a cast for Harold Willie at the Tokyo Army Hospital. Tunney, who defeated Jack Dempsey twice and retired undefeated as a heavyweight in 1928, served in the U.S. Marine Corps before turning pro.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 14, 2013
Andrew Headland, Jr.© Stars and Stripes
Saigon, December, 1966: Soldiers from the 1st Logistical Command's 71st Transportation Battalion are pressed into service unloading military cargo from ship to shore after thousands of Saigon's stevedores walked off the job in a labor dispute. The strike, which began on Christmas Day, was soon settled, and the troops went back to their regular duties.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 13, 2013
Gene Bane © Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, West Germany, January, 1957: Expectant fathers await good news in varying degrees of consciousness outside the delivery room at the U.S. Army Hospital in Frankfurt. A total of 2,408 babies were born at the hospital during the previous year; a USAREUR consultant in obstetrics and gynecology estimated that 15,000 brand-new dependents would arrive at Army hospitals in France and Germany in 1957.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 12, 2013
Ted Rohde ©Stars and Stripes
Vilseck, Germany, August, 1958: Gen. Maxwell Taylor, the Army chief of staff, is interviewed by Stars and Stripes reporter Marty Gershen at the 7th Army Training Center in Vilseck. Taylor was on a tour of U.S. bases in Germany.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 11, 2013
©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, December, 1996: Japan Boxing Commission lightweight champion Rick Roberts celebrates his eighth-round victory over challenger Tomoaki Sakayori at Korakuen Hall. New York native Roberts, a tech sergeant with the 475th Operational Support Squadron at Yokota Air Base, improved his record to 26-3 (with 15 knockouts) in his ninth title defense in Japan. At one point in his career, Roberts earned a No. 3 World Boxing Association lightweight ranking. He set a JBC record with 22 consecutive title defenses from January 1995 to November 2000.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 10, 2013
Al Chang ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, 1962: Her hands bound by a Viet Cong flag, a Vietnamese woman is guarded by soldiers after being captured in the Mekong Delta.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 9, 2013
© Stars and Stripes
Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, September, 1961: Indonesian President Sukarno, left, joins 313th Air Division Commander Maj. Gen. John R. Sutherland, center, in a salute. Sukarno was on his way home from talks with President Kennedy when his jet made a brief refueling stop at Kadena. The Indonesian leader, like many of his countrymen, used only a single name, but many sources — including Sukarno's obituary — give him the first name of Achmed. Journalist Daniel Schorr admitted to being the source of that misnomer, cabling it back to Time magazine in 1948 when an editor there insisted on having two names in a story Schorr had filed. The randomly-selected name stuck.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 8, 2013
Bob Cutts ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, April, 1968: A C47 "Gooney Bird" aircraft from the 5th Air Commando Squadron drops thousands of propaganda leaflets over South Vietnam, targeting the Viet Cong as part of Project Quick Speak.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' story about the psychological warfare missions.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 7, 2013
Gene Bane ©Stars and Stripes
Near Fulda, Germany, August, 1962: Sgt. Ira Sowards, right, and Pfc. Raymond Carbone peer across the border into East Germany as they patrol the area near Fulda where Cold War tacticians believed a Soviet attack on the West would most likely begin.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 6, 2013
©Stars and Stripes
Kawasaki, Japan, February, 1962: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy leans out of a bus window to shake hands with employees of the Fuji Electric Co. Kennedy was making a quick tour of industrial plants in the Tokyo area.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 5, 2013
S.A. Morton © Stars and Stripes
Over the Pacific, January, 1965: Passengers on this Marine flight from the Philippines to Vietnam didn't have to worry about returning their seats to an upright position before landing, but they did need to find ways to fight off boredom.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 4, 2013
Masahiko Nakamura © Stars and Stripes
Japan, March, 1966: The winter sun peeks through the haze over a deserted beach in Ibaragi Prefecture, about 100 miles from Tokyo.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 3, 2013
John Olson ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, 1967: Two soldiers display a Communist flag found during a raid by troops of the 9th Infantry Division on a sprawling tunnel complex 32 miles east of Saigon. The raid also yielded at least 200 SK44 sniper's rifles.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 2, 2013
Sandy Colton ©Stars and Stripes
Japan, 1954: A participant in a four-week course at the 8147th Army Unit Mountain School works his way up a rock chimney during a training session. "Instructors claim that climbing up a rock chimney is one of the easier methods of gaining access to a hilltop," according to a story that accompanied the photo. "It's done with body pressure on the two rock faces. A slip here would have meant a 30-foot fall."
RELATED MATERIAL:
A 1954 Stars and Stripes feature story about the school.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: May 1, 2013
©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, April, 1963: Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands — on a nine-day official visit to Japan — accepts a bouquet of flowers from nine-year-old Marian Coronel, daughter of the manager of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij, N.V. banking firm. Beatrix became Queen of the Netherlands in 1980 when her mother, Queen Juliana, signed the Act of Abdication after 31 years on the throne. She ruled until April 30, 2013, when she, too, stepped down.
